Daily Search Forum Recap: August 20, 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.

Google's Danny Sullivan said again that personalization is used in a super light way in search, in fact...

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

This week, we had not just one, but two different unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm updates - one on Saturday and one on Wednesday. Google said the link spam update that was suppose to be done rolling out about two weeks ago...

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Google: Personalization In Search Is Extremely Light & Rare For Ranking

Google's Danny Sullivan confirmed, again, that personalization in Google Search is an "extremely light" ranking signal. In fact, he said personalization is "fairly rare" to be used for ranking purposes.

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Google Search Tests Suggested Channels Box

Google seems to be testing a new feature in the Google search results named "suggested channel." I personally cannot replicate this but he is a screen shot from Jonas Sickler on Twitter who spotted this last week.

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Poll: How Many SEO Projects Lead To Successful Outcomes For Clients

Aleyda Solis ran a super interesting poll on Twitter asking SEOs about their SEO project success rate. She asked "what percentage of the SEO Processes/Projects/Initiative that you work at end up having the "agreed/expected outcome" & are seen as a "success" by the client/stakeholders?"

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