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Google Asking Searchers if Featured Snippets Are Helpful

February 9, 2016 at 5:16 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Asking Searchers if Featured Snippets Are Helpful

How useful or helpful do you find Google’s featured snippets?  Google is interested in finding out, as they are including a section below a featured snippet asking the searcher if it is useful or not. Here is the screenshot: It is just a yes or no response, and it actually shows above another featured snippet […]

Couple to Pay $350k in Damages for False Local Reviews

February 9, 2016 at 4:46 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Couple to Pay $350k in Damages for False Local Reviews

Have you ever left a bad local business review with false information?  You might want to rethink doing that in the future after a couple was ordered to pay $350,000 over false reviews they left for an attorney. The divorcing couple, Copia Blake and Peter Birzon left reviews that were not only opinion but that […]

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