Over the past few days Tim Capper has been noticing ads back in the local knowledge panels again.

Which Recommendation Types Do Consumers Find Most Compelling? “Based on your favorite” is the most impactful recommendation type, study data shows.  MarketingCharts Google Expands Access to its Business Messaging Tools from Search and Maps

GoogleBot can add products to shopping carts. But it’s only happening to these specific merchants

Google only uses spam reports to improve its spam prevention algorithms. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Google’s Gary Illyes polled SEOs about changes to their work life during COVID-19, and the results were not what he expected. The post Google Finds SEOs Are Getting More Work During COVID-19 via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Google’s Gary Illyes polled SEOs about changes to their work life during COVID-19, and the results were not what he expected. The post Google Polls SEOs and Finds Workload is Up During COVID-19 via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google’s new ranking algorithm that launches next year, the Page Experience Update, has metric named CLS, Cumulative Layout Shift.

John Mueller of Google said on Twitter “people make all kinds of links, and we ignore a lot of links, but at their core, links are not about SEO anyway.” He then shared a spreadsheet of the results of the link attributes from the HTTP Archive that he grabbed a while back.

Google announced that AdSense now allows ads from additional third party ad technology vendors to show through your account.