New Google My Business Messaging Read Receipts Setting

Google has added a read receipts setting to the Google My Business messaging platform. Now you can decide to show your customers who are messaging you via Google Maps and Search if you read their message or not through read receipts.

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Google Kills Ranking For Google Doodles With Behind The Doodle Box

Google has now killed off getting traffic for ranking for Google Doodles. Back in the old days, if you wrote a news post about a Google Doodle, and if you could rank in the top stories carousel or news box, it would send tons of traffic. Now, Google has added a "Behind the Doodle" box to the top of the search results.

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Google: We Use Many Signals To Detect Guest Posts, It's Not Just Link Anchor Text

Google's John Mueller was asked how Google detects and determines if a piece of content is written as a guest post? John said "we use lots of different signals to try to figure out what might be a guest post." He added, it is not just that the anchor text makes the guest post problematic.

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Google Merchant Center Adds Reporting For Google Shopping Deals Badges

Google announced that it is not only showing more flavors of deal badges and showcases but also has added more reporting to the performance report in the Google Merchant Center to report on these deal badges.

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Banana Man At The GooglePlex

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