Now is the time for employers to optimize their job listings and careers pages so that they will appear in Google for Jobs search results. Google for Jobs has been steadily rolling out new features for job seekers since June 2017, presenting aggregated information like salary ranges and reviews from sites like Glassdoor and kununu […]
Google Maps carries approximately 11 million illegitimate local listings, with hundreds of thousands more getting created each month, the Wall Street Journal reported this week. These fake listings push real businesses further down the local search results, impacting their ability to reach customers and make unsuspecting users easy targets for scammers. Google says it is
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Google has announced a new set of features for Google My Business profiles, which will provide additional opportunities for business listings across Google's offerings. Source link
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Despite Google’s sophisticated algorithms and high-paid software engineers, the company struggles to protect against “chronic deceit” from fake listings on Google Maps. There is a long history of this type of abuse on the site. This is not just one million, but 11 million falsely listed businesses on any given day, according to The Wall
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Google Maps has added a “popular dishes” section to eatery listings, giving prospective diners a faster way to check out a restaurant’s most talked about food and drinks. The popular dishes section is located within a listing’s overview tab and is already available on Google Maps for Android devices. The section will be rolling out
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Google has announced an update to its mobile search listings, going with a small, but significant, new look for specific listings. Source link
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When talk turns to SEO, Google is the first name that comes to mind. But, it’s not the biggest name in retail search. That crown belongs to Amazon, which overtook Google as the most popular platform for product searches in 2015 with 54% of the share, according to a 2018 report. Yet the topic of
I’ve twice addressed how Google Shopping feeds can enhance organic search listings. In “Real-time SEO: Create a Google Product Feed from an XML Sitemap,” I explained how to use a product feed to update organic listings, not just Shopping ads. And then, in “Measuring Traffic from Google Shopping’s New Organic Listings,” I reviewed how to
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Google is sending out surveys to some local businesses to see if they would pay for some features they are currently getting for free from the search engine company. Google My Business is a free service from Google that gives businesses the ability to update their information and in exchange Google provides searchers with local
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Google My Business is now rolling out a feature to let businesses create a short name and short URL, according to a report by Mike Blumenthal, a Local Guide for Google. The feature is designed to give Google My Business accounts a simple way to make their profile on Google Business more accessible to potential customers. Businesses
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