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Google has announced that the new beta Google Search Console is now getting the link report. Google said they are moving the Links to your site and Internal Links report from the old interface into the new Google Search Console under a single Links report. I do not see it rolled out yet but it should be live soon, Google says. You will be able to access the link report, as I covered at Search Engine Land, over at https://search.google.com/search-console/links when it is rolled out – but that might take…

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Today the search giant ranks as the world’s third most valuable company. Despite concerns that going public might endanger Google’s famously quirky but intensely focused culture, the company’s initial public offering (IPO) went forward on August 19, 2004. The company offered 19,605,052 shares at a price of $85 per share, valuing the company at more than $23 billion. Fourteen years later, Google parent company Alphabet’s market cap is just over $766 billion, behind only Apple ($927 billion) and Amazon ($778 billion). The company was just five years old at the…

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If you are logged into your Google My Business account and do a search for your business, you may see a call to action from Google to add Google Posts to your Google local knowledge panel. Here is a screen shot from my business where Google is saying “add a post, tell customers about a special event, deal or product.” This is only visible to me, because I have rights to add posts to my Google My Business listing. Here is a screen shot: I am not sure if this…

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Google would not tell us how much of the search results were impacted by this update, as Google has done in the past with Panda, Penguin and others: Finally, we know the update has been fully rolled out and is done as of sometime yesterday or earlier. Who was impacted by this update As we explained above, Google said this is a “global” update, which implies every niche and every type of site could have been impacted. But based on the data that I’ve been seeing from surveys, multiple data…

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