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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...

Barry Schwartz | Oct 8, 2018 at 2:48 pm ET

Report: Customer satisfaction with search drops, in social Google+ beats Facebook

ACSI rankings are based on survey of nearly 5,000 US...

Greg Sterling | Jul 28, 2017 at 10:40 am ET

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...

Barry Schwartz | Aug 3, 2016 at 5:16 pm ET

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...

Lauren Donovan | Dec 30, 2015 at 11:40 am ET

Google+ Follower Counts In Search Ads Sunset

Social ad extensions will no longer show in AdWords text...

Ginny Marvin | Dec 9, 2015 at 2:57 pm ET

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...

Greg Gifford | Dec 7, 2015 at 9:54 am ET

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...

Greg Sterling | Jul 24, 2015 at 12:15 pm ET

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...

Greg Finn | Jun 30, 2015 at 12:37 pm ET

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...

Thomas Stern | Jun 24, 2015 at 11:31 am ET

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?...

Lauren Donovan | Dec 31, 2014 at 9:30 am ET

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...

Martin Beck | Sep 18, 2014 at 3:05 pm ET

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...

Aaron Friedman | Aug 6, 2014 at 9:22 am ET

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...

Chris Silver Smith | Jul 14, 2014 at 9:30 am ET

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...

Danny Sullivan | Jul 9, 2014 at 10:13 pm ET

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...

Danny Sullivan | Jun 20, 2014 at 9:00 am ET

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...

Barry Schwartz | Jun 18, 2014 at 11:07 am ET

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...

Barry Schwartz | Jun 3, 2014 at 2:34 pm ET

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...

Susan Waldes | May 5, 2014 at 9:45 am ET

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...

Greg Sterling | Apr 30, 2014 at 11:53 am ET

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...

Will Scott | Apr 28, 2014 at 9:20 am ET