In the last Search Off The Record podcast, Gary Illyes from the Google Search team said that sometimes issues can arise within the Google Search results due to two experiments that conflict with each other.

Google Business Profiles websites, which stopped loading websites and began redirecting to the Google Business Profiles listing on Google Maps now completely 404 – as expected. It was supposed to stop working completely this past Sunday, but it did not stop working until later this week.

Google may be testing a new call extension and location extension ad format. This format shows up as a carousel of links or buttons that you can scroll through below the ad snippet in the search results.

Did you know that SEO bloggers, like myself, are the reason you see fewer and less nuanced responses from Google Search reps? John Mueller from Google said so on Reddit, where he wrote, “Love the SEO news/bloggers, but it also means I can’t reply to things with nuance publicly.”

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A/B testing can help you get a leg up on the competition and help you in avoiding mistakes. Watch this week’s Whiteboard Friday with Jandira to review four surprising SEO test results.

LinkedIn launches newsletter upgrades: custom covers, subscriber alerts, embedded profiles, and preview links.

Google’s John Mueller clarified that localized duplicate content across regional websites is acceptable.

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