Marie Haynes asked Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison for more clarity on recovering from a helpful content update by "removing unhelpful content." Danny's response was that you should "self-assess" your content to understand if you believe it will be helpful to visitors.Marie's...
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Google To Remove Video Thumbnails In Search Results When Video Is Not Main Content
Google announced it will remove the video thumbnail image from the search results snippet when that video is not the main content of the page. Google said this change will impact search appearance reported metrics for videos in the performance report in Google Search Console.Here is the...
Google Maps can detect fake phone numbers in photos and remove them
Did you know Google can now detect if scammers are overlaying fake phone numbers in user-contributed photos within Google Maps and automatically detect and block those photos from displaying on business listings within the local search results? Google has released some information on its...