Local Ranking Study For 2023 From Whitespark

The folks over at Whitespark has published there 2023 local ranking factors study, where they asked dozens of local SEO experts to rank what they think are the most important ranking signals for local pack and organic local search rankings.

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Google Bull

Google Bull At Haifa Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 24, 2023

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Non-Supported Rel Link Attributes Do Nothing In Google Search

The other day, John Mueller of Google tweeted something true but sarcastic and it seems some took it the wrong way. He said In case you're curious, the rel=dofollow works on links. The thing is, it could have been any rel attribute, such as rel=cheese and it would be treated the same as rel=dofollow, Google would ignore the attribute.

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Google Planet Mars Office Design

Google Mars Space Office Design

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 23, 2023

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Microsoft's CEO of Bing said Google Bard is pretty far behind Bing Chat...

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Aerial View Of The Google Kirkland Office

Google Kirkland Aerial View

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 22, 2023

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Google has started to roll out Bard, its AI chat feature...

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Google: URLs Excluded By Robots.txt Aren't Removed Until URLs Are Individually Reprocessed

Google's John Mueller posted a clarification on how and when Google processes the removal requests, or exclusion requests, you make in your robots.txt. The action is not taken when Google discovers the change in your robots.txt, but rather after first the robots.txt is processed and then the specific URLs that are impacted are individually reprocessed by Google Search.

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Google Cow

Google Cow

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 21, 2023

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Bing Chat is now appearing in the Bing Search answers box section...

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Bing Chat Answers Now In Bing Search Results

If you do some queries in Bing Search, you may get the Bing Chat box and a brief answer from Bing Chat at the top. We knew this was coming, Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Microsoft Bing said it would a week or so ago and now it seems to be here.

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Google Futuristic Flower Pots

Futuristic Flower Pots At Google

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 20, 2023

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Vlog #215: Sam Michelson On Google Algorithm Updates With Reputation Management

In part one, we spoke about who Sam Michelson is and his business development techniques. In part two, we dove into CRM software and how they use it, including looking at a new piece of software for partner management...

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Google Search Explore Highlighting Snippet Text In Blues & Browns

Google is now testing highlighting snippet text in the Google Explore feature in light blue, darker blue, and a brownish color. After months of testing, Google launched the featured snippet text highlight feature earlier this month. Now, it seems Google is trying it out in the Google Explore feature.

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Microsoft: No Site Blacklist For Bing Chat Sidebar

The topic of blacklists and whitelists for Bing and Google are not new. But now we have chat bots and AI features and Mikhail Parakhin was asked if there is a blacklist for some sites with the Bing Chat sidebar feature in the Edge browser. Mikhail Parakhin said no, "not really" he said.

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International Women's Day At Google With Google Board

International Women's Day Google Board

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 17, 2023

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Bing laid out when to use each mode of Bing Chat...

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Google Tests Search & Local Snippet Result Blend

Google may be testing a new search result snippet that blends a typical search result snippet with a local snippet result. This one has the favicon, sitename, URL, title and image but it removed the description portion and replaced it with local features, like map, directions, call and hours.

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Duane Forrester Acquires New Bing Mug From Fabrice Canel

New Bing Mug

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 16, 2023

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Google's March 2023 core update started to roll out yesterday...

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Microsoft Advertising Broad Match Modifier Now Use Broad Match Instead Of Phrase Match On Bing

Microsoft Advertising's broad match modifier keywords are now being served as broad match keywords instead of phrase match on Bing Search. This is effective as of yesterday, March 15, 2023.

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2006: Googlebots Playing Soccer At The GooglePlex

Googlebots Playing Soccer At The GooglePlex

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 15, 2023

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Microsoft Bing has been using GPT-4 for several weeks now...

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