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Google to close Google+ after 7 years: A look back at the impact it once had on Google search
This should come as no surprise, Google is closing down Google+ over lack of use and security...
Report: Customer satisfaction with search drops, in social Google+ beats Facebook
ACSI rankings are based on survey of nearly 5,000 US...
Google My Business drops ability to edit business description field
Your Google local profile description field can now only be edited on Google+. You can no longer update it on Google My...
Getting Social With Search Engine Land: Our Most Engaging Stories Of 2015
Likes, comments, shares — you name it, we tallied it. Here are the most socially engaging stories from our newsroom in...
Google+ Follower Counts In Search Ads Sunset
Social ad extensions will no longer show in AdWords text...
How To Get Google Review Links After The G+ Update
The recent update separating Google Business pages from Google + has left old review links broken, but columnist Greg Gifford shares how you can...
Google To Shutter Orphaned Google+ Pages Next Week (July 28)
Google is going to “unverify” inactive Google+ local pages. Business pages that have not been claimed or with unresponsive owners...
Google+ Brand Posts Have Been Stripped From Knowledge Graph Cards
Brand posts on Google+ will no longer be displayed in the Knowledge Graph cards, instead they'll be treated like all other social updates in the...
The Evolution Of SEO Trends Over 25 Years
Columnist Thomas Stern invites you to take a trip through the history of search engine optimization as we know it, as well as a brief glimpse...
The Social Side Of Search Engine Land: Our Top 25 Most Shared Stories Of 2014
What stories did our readers share the most across social networks this year?...
Bug Causes Some Google+ Elements To Drop From Brand Boxes [UPDATED]
Some Google+ elements have disappeared from Knowledge Graph boxes that appear in Google search for some brands, but Google says this is a bug...
Google+ Authorship Images Live On
Search engine optimization professionals were caught off-guard back in June when Google’s John Mueller announced that the search giant...
Google Giveth & Google Taketh Away Author Icons
Google recently announced they’d be removing a major element from their search engine results pages (SERPs) that they’ve been...
Leaked Documents Show How Yelp Thinks It’s Not Getting Screwed By Google
Yelp may once again feel Google is robbing it of its fair share of search traffic, with a study that’s been leaked to TechCrunch to prove...
The Feature Google Killed The + Command For — Direct Connect — Is Now Dead
Cast your mind back to November 2011, only a few months after the launch of Google+. That’s when Google made one of its biggest...
Google Knowledge Graph Adds Phone Numbers With Hangout Integration
Now, if you search for your favorite local restaurant, bar, business and the like on Google; Google may show you a phone number in the knowledge...
New: Connect Your Google+ Business Page To Your Google Maps Listing
Google has now enabled those with Google+ business pages to connect their page to their local business listing on Google Maps. On the help page...
Where SEM Is Concerned, Google+ Appears To Be Alive And Well
Last week saw a flurry of speculation on the future of Google+ after the head of Google+, Vic Gundotra, announced his departure. The question...
Content Free: 25 Percent Of Google+ Reviews Are “Empty”
Investment firm Piper Jaffray has started tracking and comparing Google+ and Yelp reviews. For its inaugural report, the firm looked at a...
Does Google’s Review Count Inflation Give Them An Unfair Advantage In Local Search?
We all know that monitoring online reviews is important for online marketing; but lately, it seems that not all reviews are created equal. In...