Google Maps Spam Efforts Lead To Removal Of 55M Reviews & 3M Business Profiles

Google wrote about some of the efforts it takes towards preventing and removing "fake and fraudulent contributed content" on Google Maps. The numbers of how much Google has removed from the Google Maps ecosystem is pretty amazing.

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Google Search Central Live Conference Is Next Week

Google announced the Google Search Central Live Conference. It seems to be taking place on February 23, 2021 between the hours of 7:00PM and 8:35 PM (EST). Google said this event is scheduled for the "timezone to suit parts of the Asia-Pacific region."

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Google Ads Responsive Search Ads The New Default Ad Type

Google announced responsive search ads will be the default ad type for Google Search ad campaigns in Google Ads. Google said the expanded text ads can still be created if needed. But Google doesn't think you will need them because they are wicked smart when it comes to machine learning.

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Google May Provide Method To Block Content From Google Discover

Danny Sullivan from Google said Google is "looking at" providing a mechanism to block pages or subsections of your site from being displayed in Google Discover. This comes off the controversy that there are new manual actions for Discover and Google News but no way to control if you show in Discover.

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Google May Discover URLs In Form Action Attributes & Text Files

Google's John Mueller said Google may discover and index URLs it finds in form action attributes, just like it does when it finds URLs in simple text files. Again, these are not normal HTML hyperlinks but URLs listed in files.

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