Daily Search Forum Recap: September 30, 2021

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

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Google Search On: MUM, Things To Know, Shoppable, About This Result & More

Google had a slew of Google Search related announcements at the Google Search On 2021 event. The announcements ranged from improvements and more uses for MUM, to the about this result expanding, to shoppable search experiences, in-store inventory, Google Lens updates and a bunch of features and redesigns to the Google Search experience.

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Google: Directory, Article Submission & Bookmarking Links Are Against The Webmaster Guidelines

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that directory submissions, article submissions and bookmarking links are generally against Google's webmaster guidelines. He said they are generally seen by Google as artificial links and thus you should likely avoid a link building strategy using those.

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Bing Search Mysterious Red Dot Near Shopping Tab

Microsoft Bing seems to be testing this mysterious red dot in the search bar navigation, near the shopping tab. I was able to replicate this and honestly, I do not know what this does, but here is a screen shot.

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Google Products Rich Results Search Console Report Now More Granular

Google has said that the Google Search Console rich results report for product structured data now provides more granular levels of errors. Google said starting September 29th, "Search Console now provides more granularity in error reporting for Product structured data items."

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