Yesterday, like many others, when using Google Maps, Google showed a notification box at the top right, warning people to wear a mask. The notice said “wear a mask, help slow the spread of COVID-19.” The notice was also on Google.com’s home page
Google has updated the products section within the Google My Business Console. It now has a cleaner interface, with “see it on Google” and a nice layout for “All products” and a way to filter your products.
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
Posted by cheryldraper Wow! What a crazy ride MozCon has been this year. In case you missed it, we were able to double the number of attendees and include over 2,800 people.
Valentin Pletzer has noticed that Google Discover is showing some AMP labels for stories but when you click on the story, Google is not taking the user to the AMP version, the AMP URL, but rather the canonical URL, the main URL of the story.
Google appears to have fixed an issue with Google Discover that was preventing large images being displayed for non-AMP pages. The post Google Discover Now Shows Large Images for Non-AMP Pages via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal
John Mueller of Google said it would be “a really bad idea which will cause all sorts of problems” if you block Google or other search engines from crawling pages that return a 404 server status code. He said “billions of 404 pages are crawled every day” by Google and it is normal
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The new features include customizer insertion for location and countdowns, enhanced reporting, and a Covid-updated suggestion engine. The post Google Adds New Features to Responsive Search Ads via @SusanEDub appeared first on Search Engine Journal
Alexis Sanders of Merkle sat down with Martin Splitt of Google last year (before COVID) and spoke about crawl budget. It may be one of the more informative videos in the SEO mythbusting series to-date