Google Business Short Names Being Dropped Google will stop showing the business short names on Google Business Profiles in Search and Google Maps. The short name will still work, if you have one, but going forward, the link in your Google Bu...

Google Business short names changes are coming www.seroundtable.com/google-busin...

Google Trends Explore Section Gets Gemini Upgrade Google has added Gemini to the Google Trends Explore page to help you find new and fresh search terms. It will also compare those search terms automatically for you, all in a new design. This is roll...

Google Trends explore page adds Gemini www.seroundtable.com/google-trend...

900,000 vs 9 It takes about 900,000 minutes to become a board-certified dermatologist. At that point, you might be very skilled and well-informed. It takes less than nine minutes to make your patient feel seen, understood and reassured. If you skip the 9 minutes, you wasted the 900,000.

900,000 vs 9

It takes about 900,000 minutes to become a board-certified dermatologist. At that point, you might be very skilled and well-informed. It takes less than nine minutes to make your patient feel seen, understood and reassured. If you skip the 9 minutes, you wasted the 900,000.

Sign bridge crossing a three lane highway reading "Test" over and over again

Test.

Comedy = tragedy + time

Scarborough Fair = parsley, sage, rosemary + thyme

Das Bild zeigt zwei Männer, die dicht nebeneinandersitzen und beide leicht nach rechts blicken. Sie tragen dunkle Anzüge mit Westen, weißen Hemden und Krawatten oder Fliegen. Beide haben dunkles, leicht gewelltes Haar und Schnurrbärte. Der Hintergrund ist neutral und weich, vermutlich ein Studiovorhang. Die Körperhaltung wirkt ruhig und konzentriert, als posierten sie gemeinsam für ein formelles Porträt. Der Mann links ist Auguste und rechts sein Bruder Louis Lumière. ALT-Text erstellt mit KI

Heute vor 161 Jahren wurde Louis Lumière (*05. Okt. 1864) geboren. Er war ein Fotoindustrieller aus Besançon. Er und sein älterer Bruder Auguste entwickelten den Cinématographe, ein Projektionsgerät, das als „Kinétoscope de projection“ bezeichnet wurde und den Weg zum Kino ebnete.
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Defense Against Dishonest Charts This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

Charts add a story and with a story also a need to interpret the chart. Numbers and in extension charts seem to represent the facts but you gotta be careful - they might mislead you!

flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

Google speeds up Google Search by about 60 milliseconds www.seroundtable.com/google-searc... via @tunetheweb.com hat tip @dias.social

#google #googlesearch #speed #prefetch

Help Denmark Buy California – Because Why Not? Buy it from Trump, the bigliest crowdsourcing ever

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An 1840 selfie to 1960s advertising: Eight images that tell the story of America A new exhibition of more than 200 photographs charts 300 years of image-making in the US, showing how the country's history and photography have run in parallel.

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Bellingcat is coming to New York March 24th-28th to host a five-day in-person workshop. Want to learn Bellingcat's digital investigation skills with hands-on experience? Sign up below! www.bellingcat.com/workshops/ma...

Local Consumer Review Survey 2025 - BrightLocal Our long-standing consumer behavior research examines how people are finding, reading, and writing local business reviews.

Whilst reviews are an important ranking factor, it's great to see some forgiveness from consumers if a business does not have a huge ton of very recent reviews.

Read the full report for more insights:
www.brightlocal.com/research/loc...

Google’s updated process is making it harder for businesses to get verified if they fail the first few attempts.

📹 Video Verification-fail it, and you’re stuck in a slow loop of document submissions and live video calls.

🚩 Biggest issue? Signage. No signage = no pass

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È morto Oliviero Toscani, artista della fotografia e protagonista della cultura pop Era ricoverato all'ospedale di Cecina per l'aggravamento delle sue condizioni di salute a due anni dalla diagnosi di amiloidosi. Con le sue campagne pubblicitarie (celebri e controverse quelle per Ben...

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Screenshot from SearchNorwich talk with Theme Park and Google logos and the quotes 'Aim to make the most fun theme park that your guests will love!' and 'Just make really good helpful content for your users!'

In case it hasn't been shared enough, I wanted to say this excellent "Improving your SEO with conceptual models" talk from @markwilliamscook.com includes my favourite ever slide: youtu.be/_AQ9UDqES80

Great analogy. I loved adding excess salt to chips back in the day! Theme Park on the SNES for me.

Today at Wix, an explanation of the move from "passive search" to "active search" and how to embrace it. Could help your business or agency created 2025 strategy!

NEW research: sparktoro.com/blog/new-res...

We looked at:
- 332 million searches
- Over 21 months
- From ~130K mobile & desktop, Google searchers

And published:
- 13 charts & graphs
- including data on many never-before-answered Qs about how people use Google

Here's a little sample 👇

PANTONE color of the year 2025:

mocha mousse (17-1230) 🤎

There's a big disconnect between the importance of reviews to local ranking and the attention paid to it by agencies and perceived client demand. This is from a proprietary survey we did of 296 agencies in roughly August.

You can avoid video verification for Google Business Profile (most of the time) if you have two weeks' notice.

It costs me $216 but it's worth every penny to avoid video! #localseo 1/3 🧵👇

Australian social media ban on under-16s approved by Senate The ban aims to reduce "harms" on children and will take at least a year to implement, the PM says.

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Optimising Your Location Pages for Both Users and Search - Screaming Frog In the digital landscape, effective communication is key to attracting and retaining site visitors and climbing search engine rankings. Location pages and ‘About Us’ pages often play crucial roles in ...

Optimising Your Location Pages for Both Users and Search - www.screamingfrog.co.uk/optimising-y...

As that article references, counts are not necessarily a measure of interest or popularity of terms, plus they are really broad estimates. Google Trends is a far more robust tool for those interested in that stuff trends.google.com/trends/

Two new guest stars added to the Local SEO Starter Pack @gyitsakalakis.com & @silver-smith.bsky.social go.bsky.app/RfJVeo

Let's hope the migration from X to Bluesky keeps up.

Google People Also Ask For Content Ideas Warning Last week we covered how Google's John Mueller cautioned about using Google Trends for content ideas. Google's John Mueller also agreed that this can be an issue for Google Search's people also ask (...

Google cautions about using Google's People Also Ask for content ideas www.seroundtable.com/google-peopl...