Mike Blumenthal

As noted by John Gruber, sometimes the pen can send a mighty message. Or rather in this case, a paint brush. Yesterday (Friday), The Mayor of DC declared part of a street that runs near the White House “Black Lives Matter Plaza”, inaugurating the new plaza with giant yellow letters and a brand-new street sign. …

Update 6/14: Google has now started to index the site. As of now there are two of about 20 pages that have been indexed. Update 6/12: Good news. Kossars have fixed their robots.txt file and removed the disallow function that prevented Google from indexing them. Onward and upward. User-agent: * *************************************************** I was thinking about New …

Google My Business Websites, first released publicly in June of 2017, has passed 36 million sites created and continues on a strong upward trend. From the beginning, GMB Websites has seen strong growth, passing a million sites built within the first 6 months and really taking off,  passing 10 million sites built, by the fall …

This test is very interesting, taking elements of the Scroll pack test but applying them to the traditional 3 Pack. The more obvious “View more” call to action would seem likely to attract significant user attention. The suggested alternative searches likewise would get some traffic and those business that do well across multiple categories are …

Or when the Dallas Petland might have a hiccup about the Dallas Puppylmill protests when you search for Dallas Petland events:

On the Near Me result above, the CTAs are almost at the bottom of the page below the events and alternative suggestions. While on the Anchor Bar Buffalo NY search below they are much closer to the top and above the events.