Plus, Shopify site owners can finally edit their robots.txt files. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Google is testing letting searchers in specific countries filter Google News to only show news from their country. Here is a screen shot of Google testing this from Bapun Raz as he shared with me on Twitter.

Monetize live audio events with Live Audio Rooms and find an audience with Podcasts – New on Facebook The post Facebook Introduces Live Audio Rooms and Podcasts appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google Merchant Center has a new policy for Inaccurate availability due to inconsistent availability between the landing page and checkout pages on your website. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Are you noticing your non-AMP pages showing up in this spot now? Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Google is using a new justifications label for the Google Maps local pack named “seen by shoppers.” Justifications are the labels you in the local pack sometimes based on Google thinking you may want to know that extra bit of information about that local business.

John Mueller from Google said on Twitter that Google does not have the concept of page authority. “We don’t have a notion of page authority,” John Mueller said. How does this differ from maybe site quality, well, that is a good question

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

There has been what I would call light fluctuations in the Google search results over the past several days, some a bit over the weekend as well.

John Shehata is the Global Vice President of Audience Development Strategy & CRM at Condé Nast. John also founded NewzDash.com, an SEO software toolset for news publishers.