On July 20, 2021 Google will discontinue Google Posts for knowledge panels. Google My Business Posts are not going away. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Targeting is based on the user’s purchase intent on Yelp and ads do not have to lead back to Yelp’s platform. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Did you know that Microsoft Bing lets you share some of the direct answers (or as Google calls it, featured snippets) on social or other means? Well, it is not for most direct answers but for maybe Microsoft based answers it does.

Google’s John Mueller said that Google Search tries “to find the primary language per page.” So when you mix languages, that might cause issues with Google doing that. He added on Twitter “but what you put on different pages is totally up to you.”

In an update to Facebook Groups, administrators can now assign knowledgeable members the role of subject matter expert. The post Facebook Groups Can Designate Subject Matter Experts appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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. Google’s July 2021 core update is now done rolling out according to Google but we still saw fluctuations as of this morning…

Google’s John Mueller answers a question about affiliate links and whether it’s beneficial to hide them from search engines. The post Google On Whether Sites Should Hide Affiliate Links appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

I found it interesting that the local tracking tool, BrightLocal’s Local RankFlux, showed big ranking fluctuations in the local results at around the same time we saw the ranking spikes for the July core update.

Google is introducing a new structured data markup property for job listings that allow prospects to apply directly on the employer’s website. The post Google Launches New Structured Data For Job Listings appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Our favorite time of the year is here! The second ever MozCon Virtual kicked off yesterday with attendees from over 35 countries. There were networking rooms, photo booth pics, and live tweets. It almost felt like we were back together in one place (just minus the donuts).