SEO: Google On The Worst it Can Do Against Black Hat SEO
Google’s John Mueller answers: “what’s the worst Google can do to a website if caught using black hat SEO tactics?”

SEO: Google: Stop Worrying About Stop Words Just Write Naturally
John Mueller of Google said not to worry about stop words at all and just write naturally.

SEO: Google’s John Mueller On Google Search Spam Penalties & Quality Issues
Google’s John Mueller posted one of the more detailed responses I’ve seen from him on the topic of overall search spam, penalties, quality algorithms and more.

SEO: Google Discusses Impact of Tags on Rankings
Google’s John Mueller answers whether there’s a ranking benefit in the use of “tag” links in articles

SEO: Google Passage Ranking & Scroll To Text/Snippet Are Unrelated
Danny Sullivan of Google said “It’s not going to look any different. It’s just a way to better identify web pages that are relevant to a query.”

SEO: Google Search Console Adds AMP Error Disallowed !important CSS Qualifier
Google has added a new AMP error to the Search Console AMP enhancements report for disallowed !important CSS qualifier. Google explained since it added this new AMP issue type, “as a result, you may see an increase in the total number of AMP issues reported for your site.” “This doesn’t necessarily indicate new errors on your site, only that we are now checking for this error,” Google said.

SEO: Google: Shorter Domains Are Not Better For Ranking Or SEO
Google’s John Mueller said that having a shorter domain name or a shorter URL is not going to benefit you in terms of your SEO and ranking in Google Search.

SEO: Google SEO Advice On Temporarily Removing Site Functionality In Support Of Action
Google’s John Mueller shared specific SEO advice around what to do when you remove or disable functionality of parts of your website or your whole website in order to encourage users to take action on an issue. So maybe you replace your home page with a message or something else, you want to avoid any SEO issues with doing that.

SEO: Google Won’t Penalize Your Site For Missing Logos, Menu Links Or Footers
Google’s John Mueller said Google does not have manual action penalties for building sites that are missing logos, or missing the menu links at the top or even the footers at the bottom.

SEO: Google Image Search update reduces duplicate image results
Google said this launched in November, so it seems Google is November but is just announcing this now. Google has made an improvement to Image Search to reduce duplicate images, so that we can display others that are relevant yet visually distinct.

Related Articles:

• Google Image Search Update Reduces Duplicate Images (November 2020)

SEO: Google Video On Image SEO In Detail With 12 Tips
Google’s John Mueller released an almost 10 minute long video on image SEO best practices and tips. It is one of the more detailed image SEO presentations I’ve seen from Google. He lists off 12 specific actionable tips and then talks more about implementation and measurement.

SEO: Google Search Tests Dark Mode Theme Controls
Google has been testing a dark mode theme in the Google Search results. Now Google is testing a toggle to turn on and off the dark mode theme.

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• Google goes dark theme and passage ranking sees the light: Friday’s daily brief

SEO: WordPress Gutenberg Improved Site Performance
WP Rocket redesigned site with WordPress Gutenberg and experienced remarkable performance gains. But there are a few things to watch out for

SEO: WordPress 5.6.1 Introduces Bug Into Post and Page Windows
Bug warns publishers from leaving editing window in WordPress 5.6.1. Triggers false warning: “Changes you made may not be saved”

SEO: Google Search Console Page Experience Appearance Filter In Performance Report
It looks like Google is preparing to upgrade the performance report within Google Search Console to show a page experience update appearance filter.

SEO: Microsoft Bing: 15% Of Searches Are Misspelled So Speller100 To The Rescue
Microsoft posted on its research blog that is has launched Speller100, spelling correction models, to help Microsoft Bing Search do better at spelling corrections. Microsoft said 15% “about 15% of queries submitted by customers have misspellings” so this is needed.

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• Bing Launches Large Scale Spelling Correction Worldwide

SEO: Bing Search Recommends Queries & Sites Based On Activity & What’s Popular
Bing is now recommending additional search queries to try out and websites to check out based on your activity and what’s popular.

SEO: Google Search Prefers To Neutralize The Effect Of Spam
Google’s John Mueller said that if we can neutralise the effect of bad links, that’s enough; there’s no need to remove the site completely from search then.

SEO: Google Search Hiding Featured Snippet Label?
For the past week or so, for some queries, it seems like Google is hiding the featured snippet label in the search results.

SEO: Core Web Vitals Might Include Noindexed Pages
John Mueller explains that in some cases the Core Web Vitals ranking signal might be calculated using noindexed web pages

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• Google Search May Use Core Web Vitals Data From Noindexed Pages

SEO: Google Adds 12 New Types of Manual Action Penalties
Violations of Google News and Google Discover policies can now result in manual action penalties.

Paid: Google Product Search Swipe Through Results and Style Ideas
Google now lets you swipe left or right to scan through the different products.

Paid: Announcing v6.1 of the Google Ads API
Google announced v6.1 release of the Google Ads API. To use some of the v6.1 features, you will need to upgrade your client libraries and client code. The updated client libraries and code examples will be published next week. This version has no breaking changes.

Paid: Introducing Publisher Ads Audits for Lighthouse v1.4.1
Google announce the general release of Publisher Ads Audits for Lighthouse v1.4.1.

Paid: Google Search Scroll To Text On Free Product Results
Google is expanding the scroll-to-text feature it has on featured snippets and some other search elements to the free top product listings boxes.

Paid: A Google Ads setting allowed advertisers to exclude people of ‘unknown gender’
A Google Ads setting allowed businesses to potentially exclude nonbinary gender audiences, according to The Markup. The publication found examples across YouTube and search where advertisers could exclude audiences based on “unknown gender.” This form of discrimination is against Google’s own personalised advertising policy.

Paid: Google Ads Lead Form Now Triggers On Headline Click
Google said “you can now show a lead form when people tap the headline of your Search ad—rather than guiding them to a landing page.”

Paid: In-SERP lead forms convert Google Ads users without a click-through
Lead form extensions are available for Google advertisers in Search, Video, and Discovery.

Social: YouTube Launches Biweekly ‘Shorts Report’ For Creators
YouTube is launching a new resource dedicating to assisting users with the creation of Shorts videos.

Social: Twitter Eyes Subscriptions for Premium Features
Twitter is reportedly considering a subscription model for Tweetdeck and other premium features.

Social: Facebook & Instagram Shops Integrate With Shopify
Facebook and Instagram Shops are integrating with Shopify to offer Shop Pay as a payment option.

Social: Pinterest Closes In On TikTok & Snapchat with +37% Monthly Users
Pinterest continues to build its audience and add features to help marketers connect with Pinners, as monthly active use and revenue grow.

Local: Bing Local Replaces Yelp Reviews With Facebook & Foursquare Reviews
Microsoft dropped using Yelp reviews within Bing Local. Now instead, it seems Bing is using Facebook and Foursqaure and maybe others.

Local: Notice: Google My Business Auto Populating Services
Google seems to have been auto populating the services section of your Google My Business listing. It is believed that Google is pulling the services based on the content of your web site.

Local: Google Tests Find Results On Other Search Providers In US
Google may be testing showing the “find results on” other search providers in the US. This is a feature Google launched in the European Union after the anti-competitive legislation and issues they had their.

Local: Google My Business adds messaging to desktop interface
Google is rolling out the messaging functionality within the Google My Business desktop interface. This is not fully live yet, but many can see it already. Previously, messaging was available through the Google My Business mobile app, but not within the Google My Business desktop interface.

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• Google My Business Messaging Support Added To Desktop Interface

Local: Google passage ranking now live in US English search results
Google has updated us that passage ranking, as they are now properly calling it, went live on Wednesday, February 10, 2021, in the afternoon Pacific Time for queries in the US in English. Google said this can have a 7% impact on search queries – so this might feel like a big update.

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• Google Passage Ranking Is Live In The US English Results

Local: Google officially displays years in business in local pack
Google quietly announced that the “years in business” label is now live for businesses that want to display how many years they are in business within the Google Search local pack.

Local: Google Local Pack Labeling Coworking Office Spaces
Google is now labelling some businesses that are in coworking office spaces with that label in the local pack search results.

Industry: Australia’s showdown with Google has profound implications for domestic businesses and other digital platforms
The proposed legislation could create an untenable position for search engines in Australia, and Google’s threat to shut down search could affect traffic and domestic businesses across sectors.

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• Bing Steps Up to Replace Google in Australian Search Showdown
  
  
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SEO: Google Removes 3D and AR Early Adopters Program
Google said it has “removed the page about joining the 3D and AR Early Adopters Program.” It was removed because “the program is no longer accepting submissions.”

SEO: Google Search Movie Release Date Countdown Timer
Google Search now can show a countdown timer widget in the movie search results.

SEO: Google Ignores Low Quality Blog Pingback Links
Gary Illyes from Google said he should not worry and that Google is probably ignoring those links anyway. Read more here.

SEO: Google: Omitted Results Normally Don’t Apply To Two Similar Sites
There was an interesting question about why Google would only show one of two sites that are unique but can rank for similar queries in the same set of search results. John Mueller of Google said normally Google would show the two sites, even if they are similar, even if they have the same ownership. So it might be another issue.

SEO: Google: Removing Blog Comments May Impact Search Rankings
Removing all comments from a website may hurt search rankings, says Google’s John Mueller.

SEO: Google’s John Mueller Explains Inconsistent Discover Traffic
Referral traffic from Google Discover is likely to fluctuate, Search Advocate John Mueller explains why.

SEO: Google: Patents Are Not Always Used in Search
Not everything Google patents is used in search results, says Search Advocate John Mueller.

SEO: Google Can Recognize If A Site Has A Good Reputation On A Specific Topic Area
Google said it can recognise and understand if a site is reputable about a specific topic area. John said it does make sense for sites to really hone in on their subject matter expertise because what “you’re essentially doing is on the one hand for search engines you’re kind of building out your reputation of knowledge on that specific topic area.”

SEO: Google: No Such Thing As Levels Of Site Quality Demotions
Google’s John Mueller was asked in this past Friday’s Google Search Central SEO office hours if Google has different levels of site quality demotions. John Mueller of Google basically said no, that it is “more fluid” than that.

SEO: New: Google News & Discover Manual Actions In Search Console
It looks like Google added a whole set of new manual actions to the list of manual actions. The new ones are for Google News and Google Discover guideline violations.

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• Google publishes new manual actions aimed at Google News and Discover penalties
  
  
• Google: Manual Actions For News or Discover Do Not Impact Search

SEO: Google Image Search COVID Warning & Notice
Some of Google Image search results may show you a notice at the footer of the image results. The notice reads “Information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) is constantly evolving.

SEO: Google BERT vs SMITH: How They Work & Work Together
Earlier, Google released a research paper about SMITH – a new NLP algorithm. What’s it about and how does it compare to BERT? Read on.

SEO: Wikipedia Gatekeeping The About This Result Google Feature?
Danny Sullivan fromGoogle said no, “it’s not gatekeeping,” he said. “We show additional information about the source of a result as an *option* people can choose to view *if they want*.

SEO: Google Experience Update Label Requires All Factors To Be Compliant
Google’s John Mueller said in Friday’s Google Search Central SEO hangout that if Google does launch the Page Experience Update label/indicator, for your site to show up for it, all the requirements must be met. He said “we really need to know that all of the factors are compliant.”

SEO: Reminder: Google Search Console Does Not Backfill Data
Google’s John Mueller remineds us that if you verify a new website in Google or your old website loses its verification for a period of time, the data where the site is not verified will likely be missing.

SEO: Google will suspend merchant sites that show higher prices at checkout
Google announced that, beginning on April 6, it will start enforcing its longstanding policy of requiring merchants to show the price of an item from their Google Merchant feed on their e-commerce page, all the way through the checkout process. If you show a higher price than what is on your landing page, Google can suspend your account.

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• Google May Suspend E-Commerce Sites That Change Prices On Checkout Page
  
  
• Google Taking Action Against Sites With Inaccurate Pricing

SEO: Google Analytics Stops Collecting Data From YouTube Channels
Google is deprecating the connection between Google Analytics and YouTube channel pages. New data will no longer be collected.

SEO: Google Keeps Printing Money: Up 23% YoY & Search Up 17%
Google announced impressive earnings last night showing their revenue was up 23% year-over-year. If you just look at the Google Search category, Google earned $31,903M in Q4 2020 compared to $27,185M in Q4 2019, that is a 17% increase. Overall revenue was up 23% with YouTube doing specifically well.

SEO: Google Tests Compare Search Results
Google is testing a method to compare the set of search results it gives you after you enter a query. Google lets you select a number of search result snippets and compare them.

SEO: Google Improves Web Stories WordPress Plugin
Updates to Web Stories plugin make it easier to earn money and new design features help publishers create more engaging web stories

SEO: Google Search Console Discover performance report now includes all data
Google announced that the Discover performance report within Google Search Console will now include all data, including Chrome data.

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Paid: Microsoft Ads to replace Manual CPC with Enhanced CPC by end of April
Microsoft will transition all search, shopping, and Dynamic Search Ads campaigns that do not have automated bidding strategies to Enhanced CPC (eCPC) beginning in March.

Paid: Google Ads Rolls Out Portfolio Bid Strategies For Manager Accounts
In July 2020, Google Ads announced portfolio bid strategies, an automated, goal-driven bid strategy that groups together multiple campaigns, ad groups, and keywords. Now, Google is saying this feature is available to all manager accounts.

Paid: Google expands phrase match to include broad match modifier traffic
Google announced that changes are coming to Google’s phrase match and broad match modifier keyword match types. Phrase match will expand to include additional broad match modifier traffic and support for broad match modifier will end. 

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• Google Ads Phrase Match Expands To Cover Broad Match Modifier Traffic

Paid: Google Ads Auto Applied Recommendations: Every setting, explained
There are 35 AI-based ads suggestions. Here’s tactical guidance on how to apply them to optimise your campaigns.

Paid: Google Updates Shopping Search Results With “Black—owned” Label
Google is updating shopping search results with a new label to identify products sold by black-owned businesses.

Content: Google Video On Duplicate Content From AdSense To Search
Google’s Aurora Morales in her latest video spoke about duplicate content from the view of not just organic search but also from publishers who want to monetise their websites. She started off saying that your site needs to add value, value more than what you can find elsewhere.

Social: Instagram Adds ‘Recently Deleted’ Folder For Removed Content
Instagram will now send content removed from user profiles to a ‘Recently Deleted’ folder where it can be reviewed and restored.

Social: How Facebook Algorithm Ranks News Feed Content
Facebook published an article and patents that describe how it ranks news feed posts.

Local: Google Local Pack Removes Some Business Addresses
Google is changing the local pack in the web search results to remove some of the addresses of those business listings.

Local: Google Displays Stars With Reviews In Local Knowledge Panel
Google is now showing actual stars in the reviews section of the local knowledge panel reviews area.

Local: Google My Business Adds Guidelines For Co-Working Spaces
Google has added one line to its Google My Business guidelines around co-working spaces. In short, if your business is out of a co-working space it must have signage, accept customers and be staffed to be eligible to have a Google My Business listing with a co-working address.

Mobile: Google Related Searches Stuck To Top Of Mobile Search Results
Google testing having the related search boxes carousel stick to the top of the mobile search results as you scroll. So those related searches just hang out at the top of the search results even if you scroll past them.

Mobile: Google Tests Infinite Scroll On Mobile Search Again
Google is once again testing infinite scroll on the mobile search results. We’ve seen numerous tests of infinite scroll, including on desktop results.

Mobile: Apple Maps Showing Restaurant Menus From Yelp
Apple Maps both on iOS devices and desktop seem to now be showing menus from some restaurants. The menus seem to mostly come from Yelp, a partner of Apple.

Mobile: New Amazon Mobile GetLink for Social Media Affiliate Sharing
Amazon announces Mobile GetLink, a solution for sharing affiliate links on social media and direct messaging

 

SEO: Podcast: Google On The Search Central Site Migration
In the latest Google Search Off the Record podcast, John Mueller, Gary Illyes, Lizzi Harvey and Cherry Prommawin got together to speak about the launch and migration of the new Google

SEO: Google’s People Also Search For Entity Overlay Feature
Google is testing another feature for “people also search for,” this one overlays entity information in a popup menu when you hover your mouse over the term.

SEO: Google: Core Web Vitals Values Won’t Differ Based On Type Of Site
Google won’t be giving different levels or metrics of the Core Web Vitals scores based on the type of web site you have. So news sites versus e-commerce sites won’t make a difference when it comes to the Core Web Vitals score Google gives the site.

SEO:Google On Same Link But Different Anchor Text On Same Page
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that they would be treated as normal links and are not considered spammy.

SEO: Bing Estimated Reading Time In Search Result Snippets
Microsoft Bing is now testing displaying the estimated reading time for some of the search results.

SEO: John Mueller Recommends Pyramid Site Structure
Observations on the potential pitfalls of radical changes to site navigation and the benefits of a pyramid site structure

SEO: Use Google Chrome Canary to Measure Core Web Vitals
Google Chrome Canary users have a new way to measure Core Web Vitals. Discover how to access the scores on your site and your competitors.

SEO: Google Search launches about this result feature
Google announced it is rolling out a new feature that will communicate to searchers, before they click on the result, more information about that search result snippet they are looking at.

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• A quick way to learn more about your search results
  
  
• Google Launched The About This Result Snippet Feature

SEO: Google Ads Adult Policy Change For Sexually Suggestive Themes
Google is making changes to its adult policy for Google Ads starting on March 29, 2021.

SEO: Google Search CLS Annoyance With People Also Search For
Google’s ‘People Also Search For’dynamic box interfers with users search journey on the search result page.

SEO: Google On Removing Redacted Information From Search
Google’s John Mueller highlighted a document, which he said is not new, but it is useful, named keep redacted information out of Google Search.

SEO: Google Updates Event Structured Data Requirements
Google changed the requirements for the Event Structured Data. Publishers who charge for events need to update structured data

SEO: WordPress 5.7 Will Feature Updated Admin Colors
WordPress.org announced progress toward an updated admin color palette for WP 5.7 that will be more accessible and easier to read.

SEO: Google: All Core Web Vitals Must Be Met For Ranking Boost
Google says the minimum threshold for all Core Web Vitals must be met in order to benefit from the associated ranking signal.

SEO: Google: Embedded Videos Have Same SEO Value as Uploaded Content
Videos embedded from other sources have the same SEO value as videos natively hosted on a website, according to Google’s John Mueller.

SEO: Top Threats to WordPress Sites Identified in New Report
A new report identifies the top security threats and most common attacks against WordPress sites.

SEO: Google Search Found 25 Billion Spammy Pages Each Day
Google released a video talking about search spam and what Google does to protect searches from “spam sites, phishing scams, and other bad actors” trying to get into Google search. One metric that stood out was that Google detected “25 billion spammy pages every day” in 2020.

SEO: Google Search Critic Ratings Scale Visualization
Google have been spotted displaying another variation of product attribute sliders within Google Search.

SEO: Google Search Now Displays Sports Player Statistics
Google Search is now showing the statistics for individual sport player stats.

SEO: WordPress Response to Rogue Plugin Updates
WordPress issued a reminder to plugin publishers to not over-reach their authority and that violators will continue to be flagged

SEO: Google’s John Mueller on Cleaning Up Hacked Pages
Google’s John Mueller offers advice on cleaning up hacker-injected web pages.

SEO: Google Releases Data on Cookie Replacement Mechanism Called FloC
Google has released some insight into the technology it believes will replace their cookie-based world in the Chrome browser.

SEO: DuckDuckGo App Updated With More Privacy Protections
DuckDuckGo’s mobile apps and desktop browser extensions are getting updated with additional privacy protections.

SEO: Google To Stop Supporting Data-Vocabulary.org In Search This Weekend
Google will stop supporting markup in the format from data-vocabulary.org. Google gave us over a years notice of this change, so this change should not come as a surprise to anyone here.

SEO: Entity vs. Query Rank In Google Search
Mark Williams-Cook posted a super interesting example of Google Search showing a different set of ranked results for the same query. The only difference was how the search was conducted. One search was done as a query, typing in the words into the search box. The second was selecting the entity in the search suggestions drop down box. Google ranks the results differently.

SEO: Google Ranks Pages But Overall Site Greatly Influences The Ranking Pages
Google looks at things on a broader level than just URLs. Read more here.

SEO: Google Search Console Sending Messages With Errors
Google acknowledges a bug is causing Search Console to send messages in error.

SEO: Google Mistakenly Sending Emails To Verify Sites In Search Console
Google is emailing users to verify their sites in Google Search Console. The issue is that this is going to people who do not have any way of verifying those sites because they are not the site owner.

SEO: Google Drops Review Snippets For Lawyers
It looks like Google has stopped displaying the rich results review snippets for attorneys and lawyers in the Google search results.

SEO: Google Can Penalize A Network Of Sites For The Same Manual Action
John Mueller of Google was asked if Google assigns a manual action to one site and knows it is part of a larger network of sites, it can apply that manual action across the other sites in the network. He said “it’s certainly possible — if they’re built the same way, then it would be reasonable to apply the same manual action.”

SEO: Google Warns Against Using Web Stories Teasers
Google announced they will stop ranking low quality Web Stories that tease content but don’t deliver

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• Google may not display Web Stories that are teasers
  
  
• Google Will Stop Showing Teaser Web Stories In Search & Discover

SEO: Google’s John Mueller Confirms Core Updates Apply to Discover
Google Discover is part of, not separate from, web search. Broad core algorithm updates that impact search results also impact Discover.

SEO: Google: Same Content in Different Formats is Not Duplicate
Google’s definition of duplicate content does not include articles and videos that contain the same text.

Related Articles:

• Google: Duplicate Content is Not a Negative Ranking Factor

Paid: Google adds Black-owned business label to product results
Google announced that black-owned businesses can now also show a special label or indicator in their product and shopping results within Google Search.

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• Google Shopping Black-Owned Business Label

Paid: Google Ads Tests “Site” Label In Search Ads
Google Ads is testing placing a label named “Site” between the Ad label and the URL of the search ad in the mobile results.

Paid: Microsoft Advertising Filter Link Extensions: More Links In Ads On Bing
Microsoft announced a new Microsoft Advertising search ad extension named Filter Link extensions. These Filter Link extensions enable advertisers to show many different link extensions in their ad snippet, as opposed to one.

Social: Facebook To Test Topic Exclusion Controls for Advertisers in News Feed
Facebook is planning to test a solution that will allow an advertiser to select a topic, like Crime and Tragedy.

Social: How to Create Hyperlapse Video Tutorials
Watch Facebook Creative Shop’s Becky Owen as she offers helpful guidance around shooting and editing a hyperlapse video tutorial using a free mobile app called Videoshop and a homemade studio.

Social: YouTube Introduces Clips For Live Streams
YouTube is introducing the ability to create clips out of other creators’ live streams and VODs.

Social: YouTube CEO Reveals 2021 Priorities for Creators
What does the world’s most popular video platform have in store for creators? YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki shares the company’s priorities for 2021 here.

Social: Twitter Acquires Revue – Newsletter Publishing Startup
Twitter announced the acquisition of newsletter publishing and monetisation company, Revue. Synergy will help publishers earn more from newsletters.

Local: Google My Business Not Applied Changes Now Offer Send Edit Feedback
Google have been rolled out a new feature in Google Local and Google My Business. The feature seems to allow you to send additional feedback to Google when a suggested edit you make to a Google business listing is not accepted (i.e. not applied) for some reason.

Local: Google Australia Adds Notice To Search Results About News Links Law
Google has added a large noticeable banner to the top of the search results in Google Australia for any query.

Local: Google Maps Search Trends For January 2021
Google shares insights into what’s trending on Google Maps in January 2021.

Local: Google Tests Red & White Hotel Pricing Pins
Google is testing variations of the colors for those pins both in red and white background colors, and maybe more.

Local: New Google My Business Insights Platform & Device Breakdown
Google My Business seems to be adding to the Insights section new metrics that businesses can use for analytical purposes.

Local: Logos Disappearing From Google Local Listings
There are a number of reports in the Local Search Forum that businesses are seeing their logos disappear from their Google local listings in search.

Mobile: Google Offers Help On The Apple iOS 14 ATT Policy Changes
Google has published a document explaining what developers need to know about the upcoming App Tracking Transparency (ATT) policy changes.