“Google’s Knowledge Graph is allowing entities to claim their Knowledge Graph panel to become the authoritative owners and editors of the results within the panel,” explains Tony Edward of Elite SEM. “Here is how to do it: 1) Click the ‘Claim this knowledge panel’ button at the bottom of your Knowledge Graph panel. This will take you to a Google Verification page. You will notice in the URL for the page has your custom MID (machine-generated identifier) number which is specific to you as an entity. 2) Click the ‘Get Verified’ button. You will then be taken to a page with a list of options to verify you’re the entity. From there you will have to select one option and sign in to complete the verification. Options will typically include YouTube, Twitter and Google Search Console.”

“Once you complete the verification the ‘Claim your knowledge panel’ button will disappear and you will now have authoritative editing power on your panel where you can suggest changes.”

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The demand for digital marketing services has skyrocketed in recent years as more businesses – B2B and B2C – have shifted marketing spend away from traditional tactics. Traditional marketing and advertising services are moving in-house, and service lines are blurring.

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Spam removal & free speech. Bing’s spam fighter, Frédéric Dubut, said on Twitter that removing spam from search is not the same as suppressing free speech.

Worried about negative SEO. If you are so worried about negative SEO, John Mueller from Google says then just use the disavow backlink tool. You probably do not have to worry about it, but use it if it makes you sleep better.

Dropping breadcrumbs. Google may be testing dropping/removing breadcrumbs from the mobile search results snippet — or it might be a bug, this was spotted by Sergey Alakov.

Empathetic Consulting: 3 Things to Remember When Working With Other Teams – Moz

Google Maps gives users more control over their personal and shared lists – Android Police

Google Removes PageRank & 200 Signals From Disavow Help Doc – Search Engine Roundtable

How to secure links and coverage reactively – Builtvisible

How UK consumers are using voice search – Microsoft Advertising

New York City travel tips from Google Maps Local Guides – Google Blog

The Future of SEO – How Google Search Has Changed in 2019 – Cognitive SEO

The Rise of “No Click” Searches and Why They Matter  – Stephan Spencer

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