Daily Search Forum Recap: August 13, 2021

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

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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Ranking Update, Pages Dropping In & Out, Big Publishers Benefit & Author URLs and Rankings

This past weekend we had yet another unconfirmed update around August 6th. Google may be having an indexing bug for the past month or so where pages are dropping in and out of the index...

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Google Podcasting Requirements Updated: Show Level Detail Required

Google has posted a document about upcoming changes to the Google podcasting requirements coming by September 21, 2021. All podcast RSS feeds must now include more details on the show level to be eligible to appear in Google Search and Podcasts recommendations.

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Google: Moving Links Around On A Page Won't Boost Your Search Rankings

John Mueller of Google said that by just moving a link from one position on a page to another position on a page - you likely won't see any ranking boost from that action. He said on Twitter "I wouldn't assume that you'd get a boost out of just moving links from one part of the page to another part though."

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Bing Testing Orange Colored Link Overlays

Microsoft Bing is testing a bit more color in its Bing Search results interface. When you mouse over a hyperlink, Bing may color that link orange as opposed to just keeping it blue and then underlining the link.

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