Daily Search Forum Recap: August 10, 2021

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...

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Google Ads Editor 1.7 Gains Hotel Ads Lead, Extension Forms & More

Google, after a false start, announced the release of version 1.7 of Google Ads Editor. Google Ads Editor 1.7 brings Hotel ads, easier downloads, YouTube audio ads, lead form extensions, additional recommendation types and the deprecation of Showcase ads.

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Google Enforcing Physical Addresses For Some Google My Business Listings

Google is now requiring some businesses to add a physical address and not be a service area business in Google My Business. Google told Stefan Somborac that this is a "new feature is an automated, anti-spam protection designed to reduce category misuse across millions of business profiles."

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Google Structured Data Testing Tool Directs You To Rich Results Test Or Schema.org

Google has updated the structured data testing tool page to a page that instructs the user to either go to the rich results testing tool on Google or the schema markup validator on Schema.org.

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Google Adds Author Markup To Article Structured Data Recommended Properties

Google said it has recently added the author.url property to the Article structured data documentation. Google said this "url property helps Google disambiguate the correct author of the article." But it seems Google added a number of author based properties to the document recently.

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