Is this your Gmail address?
2026-06-18
Is this your Gmail address? Probably not, but I know you still have an embarrassing Gmail that you made when you were 12 and your whole personality was Call of Duty and Linkin Park. Well, good news. Google says you may now be able to change your Gmail address. Here's how to check. Go to myaccount.google.com...
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Google Business Profile service-area settings do not make a business rank in nearby cities...
2026-06-17
Oh, here's the problem. You are the plumber in Denver, and you want to rank in Aurora, Colorado too. Hey, you're like, yeah, we're just like on the edge of Denver. We'll service Aurora, Colorado. Forget it. Just give up. You can't do it unless you read Miriam's article. Cause Miriam's article is gonna give you some strategies. It's a very tricky thing...
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Every key website page should make contacting the business easy, not rely on one separate...
2026-06-16
You go to your website, add a contact form on every key page, make your phone number clickable, keep your pages fast and distraction free, and add one clear call to action per page. Then this will turn more clients into actual leads and this will make it effortless for them to reach out the moment they find the information they need...
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AI-answer visibility can depend on ranking for the hidden Google-style searches that AI...
2026-06-15
If you go to queryfan. Com, enter a topic to find a persona, the tool will show you the searches that ChatGPT and Gemini run in the background when answering questions about that topic. Because when someone asks an AI tool a question, it runs these normal Google style searches, finds ranking pages and uses those pages to build the answer...
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This is crazy. Google is now asking your customers to snitch on you.
2026-06-12
This is crazy. Google is now asking your customers to snitch on you. Some users are seeing this question, does this business offer rewards in exchange for reviews? So if you're giving people discounts, gifts, or freebies for leaving a Google review, you need to stop...
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This is huge. Google just turned Gemini into your Google Business Profile assistant.
2026-06-11
This is huge. Google just turned Gemini into your Google Business Profile assistant. You can now connect your Google Business Profile directly to Gemini, and this changes how you manage your local presence...
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Google just gave us the ultimate shortcut to rank No.
2026-06-10
Google just gave us the ultimate shortcut to rank No. 1 in AI results. And I don't even mean sometimes. And this is something you better start doing immediately before your competition does. The new thing is called Preferred Sources. And here's how it works...
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I wanted to talk about schema.
2026-06-09
I wanted to talk about schema. What is it? Does it help your SEO? Well, Jake Hundley has done a pretty good deep dive on this. What did he find? Did it have any positive impact? Well, no, not in search results. But here's the shocker. Schema did have a noticeable impact on ChatGPT. Kind of surprising...
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This might be the biggest Google Business Profile update of the year.
2026-06-09
This might be the biggest Google Business Profile update of the year. Google Business Profile data is coming to Google Analytics. you'll be able to connect your business profile directly to GA four and see local performance data like calls, website clicks, bookings, direction requests, and total interactions...
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Or AI slop bores me. That's basically what a lot of people are telling Google right now as...
2026-06-08
Or AI slop bores me. That's basically what a lot of people are telling Google right now as they switch to duckduckgo's new no AI search engine. According to duckduckgo, its app installs increase 30% as people reject Google's AI features. Duckduckgo has a no AI search page where AI features are turned off by default...
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This is a big day for SEO.
2026-06-08
This is a big day for SEO. Google is finally giving us a way to see how our sites perform in AI search directly in Google Search Console. These reports will show when your site appears in Google's generative AI features like AI Overviews, AI Mode, and discover...
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This stupid red line is ruining your rankings.
2026-06-05
This stupid red line is ruining your rankings. Here's the deal. If your business is inside that red line, then you're good. But if your business is even slightly outside of it, Google will pretend your business doesn't exist and you will not rank in that city. And the same thing happens in surrounding cities...
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