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Google Business Profile post view counts return, three and a half years after Google removed them
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Google Business Profile post view counts return, three and a half years after Google removed them

Google is rolling out per-post view counts in Business Profile, the first post metric since February 2023. Views only, Search and Maps…

Sep 13, 20263 min read
A UK publisher lost 98% of its news search visibility after a .com move
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A UK publisher lost 98% of its news search visibility after a .com move

Search Engine Journal reported on 8 September 2026 that NewzDash measured a UK news publisher's Search Visibility score falling about 98% within…

Sep 11, 20263 min read
72 Google Maps ranking signals named, 25 of them already deprecated
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72 Google Maps ranking signals named, 25 of them already deprecated

A recovered Google binary exposed 72 named Maps ranking signals from an internal system called Oyster Rank, a quarter of them marked…

Sep 9, 20263 min read
Google documents two EEA-only search units: aggregator and supplier
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Google documents two EEA-only search units: aggregator and supplier

Google published documentation on 8 September 2026 for two search result units that appear only in the European Economic Area. The aggregator…

Sep 9, 20263 min read
Mueller says Google can lose faith in a whole site over programmatic pages
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Mueller says Google can lose faith in a whole site over programmatic pages

John Mueller said on Bluesky that programmatic SEO often produces spam or low quality pages, and that Google's systems can lose faith…

Sep 8, 20263 min read
What an SEO agency actually does and which businesses genuinely benefit
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What an SEO agency actually does and which businesses genuinely benefit

An SEO agency covers technical, content and off-site work on organic search. Here is what sits inside each service, which eight business…

Sep 5, 20263 min read
8 Signs Your Website Needs an SEO Audit Right Now
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8 Signs Your Website Needs an SEO Audit Right Now

Traffic drops, vanishing rankings, and a growing pile of Search Console errors are not random. Here are the 8 signals that tell…

Sep 4, 20263 min read
Mueller calls sitemap cache busting a bad idea, and says nothing about crawl frequency
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Mueller calls sitemap cache busting a bad idea, and says nothing about crawl frequency

Search Engine Journal reported on 2 September 2026 that John Mueller called it a bad idea to add daily cache-busting parameters to…

Sep 4, 20263 min read
Mueller on the disavow tool: it does have effects, but it has its place and time
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Mueller on the disavow tool: it does have effects, but it has its place and time

Search Engine Roundtable reported on 2 September 2026 that Google's John Mueller told a site owner the disavow tool does have effects,…

Sep 4, 20263 min read