Google seems to be expanding the feature where they turn off the ability for some local listings, Google Business Profiles, to allow posting reviews. We covered this before during the UK and limited release, where you would get a notice that says “Posting reviews is turned off for this place.” But now it seems to be expanding to more regions and businesses.
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Google Expands Posting Reviews Is Turned Off For This Place
I am not sure if this is new, to be honest, we saw something super similar in the normal local review summaries about fives years ago with “X people mention [keyword].” Now in the Local Service Ads, they have it where it has this people icon with “Reviews often mention [keyword].”
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Google Local Service Ads Reviews Often Mention Label
Not all leads are created equal. Learn when demand gen or lead gen makes sense – and when it’s time to pivot. The post Demand Gen Vs.
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Demand Gen Vs. Lead Gen: What Every CMO Needs To Know via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson
Google will be ending the ability for hotels to manage their hotel rates by themselves, instead they will need to partner with a central reservation system, Internet booking engine or other partner to manage those rates on Google Search.
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Google To End Self-Service Hotel Rates July 30
Microsoft is testing placing a floating Copilot search box within the Bing Search results page. The aim is to encourage searchers to ask follow-up questions, not in Bing Search, but in Microsoft Copilot.
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Bing Search Tests Floating Copilot Search Box
Google updated the directions interface within Google Search.
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New Google Search Directions User Interface
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Where is AI making the biggest marketing impact?
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The State Of AI In Marketing: 6 Key Findings From Marketing Leaders via @sejournal, @theshelleywalsh
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 says URL extensions don’t matter for SEO…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 24, 2025
Google’s John Mueller several years after posting a video named “Will removing ‘.html’ from my URLs help my site?” still says URL extensions do not matter for SEO. He said it doesn’t matter if you go with a .htm or a .html or go with no extension at all.
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Google Still Says URL Extensions Still Don’t Matter
Google is testing a new feature to replace all those copy-and-paste emoji websites. You know, when you want to know what an emoji is for a specific emotion and you go to Google and it brings up websites that have the emojis and you can click copy to your clipboard… Well, Google is doing that right in search.
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New Google Search Emoji Answer Feature