SEO: 07/01/2022 - 08/01/2022

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 29, 2022

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 has updated its search quality raters guidelines PDF last night...

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Search News Buzz Video Recap: July Google Product Reviews Update, Quality Raters Guidelines, Things To Know Disappear, Core Web Vitals, Bing, Ads & More

This week, it was awkwardly quiet with the Google rankings and then Google dropped the bombshell, the July 2022 Google Product Review update touched down. Google also released new search quality raters guidelines...

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Google Maps To Add Aerial Views, More Biking Details & More

Google Maps announced it is adding photorealistic aerial views, new cycling route information, new notifications for sharing your location, and more.

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Google: Age Verification Requirement May Prevent Site From Surfacing In Google Discover

Danny Sullivan of Google said on Twitter that he believes that sites that require age verification would not surface in Google Discover. He added he has to confirm this but has not responded in three days since saying this originally.

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Google Core Web Vitals No Longer Impacted Pages With Noindex

In 2021, Google said that Core Web Vitals may also be graded based on pages on your site that are noindexed. Well, that is no longer the case according to an updated Google help document. A page that has noindex on it will no longer be factored into your Core Web Vitals and Google Page Experience scores.

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Google: Embedding Iframes With NoIndex Does Not NoIndex Your Page

This may be obvious to a lot of folks but embedding iframes can be a confusing topic to many. John Mueller of Google confirmed that if you embed an iframe that contains a meta noindex, it won't result in the page you are embedding the iframe being removed from the Google index.

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Google Updates Search Quality Raters Guidelines On July 28th

Google has updated its Google Search Quality Raters Guidelines PDF just a bit over 9 months since the last update. The document keeps getting smaller, from 175 pages in 2020 to 172 pages in 2021 and now to 167 pages in 2022.

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Google Fast Looking Sign

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 28, 2022

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 Maps Tests Infinite Scroll For Search Results

We have seen Google Search test infinite scroll search results on and off for years, even launching continuous scroll on mobile officially. But now we are seeing Google Maps test infinite scroll in its search results interface.

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Microsoft: 5% Of BingBot Crawls Are New BingBot

Fabrice Canel from Microsoft said on Twitter last night that 5% of all URLs downloaded are over the new BingBot user agent. To take you back, in April, Bing announced a new user agent for its crawler, BingBot.

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Google Merchant Center Now Allows Login Required & Restricted Purchase Free Listings

Google has updated its Google Merchant Center policy to no longer disapprove the login required and restricted purchase free listings. Google said instead, Google will mark them as active but may notice the products "have limited visibility on Google."

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The Local Thai Restaurant (Another)

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 27, 2022

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

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Google Tests List View Top Stories With News Taking Over Web Results

Google not only is testing more list view formats for the top stories section but also testing, for some queries and some searchers, having the first set of web results taken over by news stories.

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Google Tests Plus Sign On Related Searches, People Also Search For & More

Here is a small but interesting test I want to document. Google is testing showing a plus sign before the related searches and people also search for sections in Google Search.

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Google Ads Revenue Up 13.5% & Microsoft Bing Ads Revenues Up 15% But Slowed Growth

Both Google (Alphabet/GOOG) and Microsoft Bing (MSFT) announced earnings last night and while both missed expectations, both earnings were not that bad and their respective stock prices are up after hours. If you zoom into Google Ads revenue, it was up about 13.5% and Bing Ads were up about 15%.

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Google Pushing Business Profile Verification Over Video

It appears that Google Business Profiles is pushing more and more to verify their businesses using video verification. We covered this before, as Google set this as the default option, but not as offering video as the only option.

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Google NYC Night View

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 26, 2022

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Google Ads Automatically Will Switch Some Conversion Actions To Data Driven Attribution

Google is emailing some Google Ads advertisers that they will automatically move some of their conversion actions to data-driven attribution. Google announced data-driven attribution back in September 2021 when it first said it will be moving away from last-click.

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Google Maps May Remove Selfies, Blurry Or Poor Quality Images

Google Maps has updated its photos and videos criteria for the Google Maps user-contributed content policy. Google added selfie photos, excessively dark or blurry images, significantly rotated compositions, and the use of filters that dramatically alter the representation of the place may be removed from Google Maps.

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Google Search Displays Return Period In Search Results Snippets

Over the past couple of weeks, Google has been displaying a new snippet line for some e-commerce sites that show the return period policy for that product. So under the main search result snippet, Google will show "x-days returns."

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Google Hotel Listings New Featured In Section

Google Hotel results show a wealth of information about a hotel listing but what I think may be new is a section called "Featured In." This section shows you articles that mention the hotel, so you can read third-party reviews of the hotel.

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Google Branded Red Apple Garnishes With Cinnamon G Logo

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Google Local Service Ads Seeing A Lot Of Fake Reviews

Google's Local Service Ads are supposed to be screened, guaranteed, and reviewed by someone contracted by Google. But supposedly, the reviews in many Local Service Ads are filled with fake reviews.

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Google Tests Search Bar With Refinements Mixed With Vertical Navigation

Google is testing mixing the search bar, where you normally see the vertical search options like videos, maps, images, shopping, news, etc - but also showing refinements for your searches.

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Google Products Carousel Displays Product Reviews Under Appears On These Lists

Google has a section named "appears on these lists" that will show you which product review content (or comparison lists) has mentioned the product you are looking at. This works both on desktop and mobile and is displayed after you click on a product in the product carousel or product grid on mobile.

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Google Now Showing Three Local Service Ads Listings

Google is now showing three local service ads listings in both the mobile and desktop interface. Previously, Google has shown two local service ads listings, but as Len pointed out on Twitter, Google is now showing three. The desktop interface has had three for some time, but mobile generally has shown only two listings.

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RankRanger: Google Things To Know No Longer Showing In Desktop Search

The Google Things To Know box, which was announced at Google I/O, and eventually has been showing up for about 1% of desktop queries, is no longer showing up for any desktop query now, according to RankRanger data.

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Google Pier 57

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 22, 2022

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

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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Bugs With Indexing, Ads, Analytics, & More, People Also Ask Back, Automated Messaging, Review Scams and More

Google had plenty of bugs, some really big ones, this week including not indexing new content for a day in Google Search. Note, there were rumblings of a Google algorithm update shortly after the indexing bug, but it might be related...

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Google Search Updates Suicide Prevention Box With New Options

Google has updated the suicide prevention box in its search results with a new hotline number and a chat support option. "While Google has included suicide prevention information at the top of relevant search results for many years, this new hotline will make it easier for people in emotional distress and seeking mental health support to get help," Google explained.

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Google Search Trending Topics News Box On Mobile

Google Search seems to be testing a new "trending topics" section for some news queries in Google Search on mobile. This Trending Topics section lets you toggle and refine your query by topics, such as weather, crime, sports, politics, or other trending news categories for that query.

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Google Super Basic Video On SEO

Google's Creators channel has released a super basic video on SEO and how to rank your content in Google Search. It covers four basic tips and makes it all sound so easy. The whole video is less than 4 minutes long.

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Unique IP Addresses Do Not Give You A Google Ranking Advantage, Google Says Again

Google's John Mueller again said on Twitter "using a shared IP address is fine" for SEO and Google Search ranking purposes. "There is no SEO advantage to using a unique IP address," he added.

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Google Ads Automatic Upgrades To Performance Max For Smart Shopping Campaigns

Google Ads announced that Google will start the process of automatically "upgrading" accounts to Performance Max for Smart Shopping campaigns. Automatic upgrades will gradually progress and finish in September for most advertisers.

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Playing Catch With Dog and Google Ball

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 21, 2022

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Google Local Pack Hours Filter By Day Of Week

Google Search's local pack has for a long time let you filter the local results by hours of operation. But I am not sure when Google added by the day of the week. I am not sure if this is new but I don't think I've seen it before.

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Google Search Timer & Stopwatch Stop Ticking

The Google countdown timer and stopwatch feature seem to have stopped working. It seemed the Google stopwatch stopped ticking on July 19th. This feature first came up in Google about a decade ago.

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Google People Also Ask Back To Normal Levels

Ten days ago, we reported that the people also ask feature dropped down 30 percentage points in terms of how often the feature is shown in Google Search. Well, now it seems to be back in full force, according to RankRanger and Semrush.

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Google Tests "Reviews Aren't Verified" Label

Google is testing a new label to notate that the reviews aren't verified in Google Search and Google Map. The label is above the reviews in the local business listing and it says "reviews aren't verified."

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Google Business Profiles Messaging FAQs For Automated Responses To Customers

Google My Business has added a new feature to automate responses to customer messages through Google Search and Google Maps. It is a frequently asked question section where you enter the FAQs, and Google can respond with answers when the customer's question match.

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Store Sign: Coffee Shop Near Me

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 20, 2022

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 is going to be testing new AR prototypes, like eyewear...

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Google Now Test Interactive Card Knowledge Panel Box Layout

The other day we covered a knowledge panel box card layout, but now Google is testing a more interactive version of this card layout. When you click on the cards they expand and show more details.

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Google Tests New AR Prototypes - Watch Out Google Glass

Google announced it will begin testing new AR, augmented reality, experiences in the public with a limited number of Googlers and trusted testers. These include in-lens displays, microphones, and cameras, that Google will start to test next month in the real world.

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Limited Google Search Bug Showing Only One Result To Some Users

Google has this weird Google Search rendering bug where it is showing only one search result to some users. This seems like a super limited bug, impacting a limited number of users. But for Google, even one percent of searchers are a lot of searches. Google said they will investigate these reports.

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Google Product Results Tests Customer Favorites, Most Mentions Of & More Labels

Google is doing a lot of product result testing, as you'd expect. Here are some new features we spotted Google testing for products in the search results. They include showing customer favorites, most mentions of, and more label attributes on the products.

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New Verification Of Google Search Console Via DNS CNAME

Google announced this morning that they have added a new way to verify your domain name and properties in Google Search Console. You can now do so through or via DNS CNAME.

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Massive Google Key

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 19, 2022

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.

We had another Google Ads, AdSense, etc outage or massive delay in reporting again today...

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Google May Investigate Potential Google Search Recipe Bug

Google may investigate a potential bug in Google Search with the recipe search results carousel. There are reports of sites dropping out from the recipe carousel without the URLs dropping out from the normal search results.

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Bing Tests Knowledge Panel Poll Tests

Microsoft Bing may be testing polls for the knowledge panels they display on the right panel. If you search for [joe biden], and scroll down the right side knowledge panel, you may see a friendly poll or test.

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PSA: Google Ads Won't Let You Create Or Edit Expanded Text Ads, Including URLs

Just a reminder, Google Ads no longer allows you to edit URLs, or create or edit any ETAs, i.e. expanded text ads, anymore. This should have gone into effect on July 1, 2022 - at least that is what Google told us and we reported on twice here.

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Google Icons For Things To Do & Other Features Like Places To Stay

Google is now testing placing icons next to the Things To Do, How To Get There and Places To Stay search feature. Previously, I don't think I have ever seen the icons before and as Saad AK said on Twitter, the places to stay feature might be new too.

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Google Ads & AdSense Advertiser Console Delayed Again - Confirmed

On Friday, the Google Ads, AdSense, Analytics, consoles, and more were delayed, super slow, and overall buggy. Well, it is happening again today, Tuesday morning. Google Ads has even confirmed it again after reports started coming in at around 3 am ET. This seems to also be impacting the AdSense console.

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Google Bench Of Pittsburgh Bridge

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 18, 2022

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Vlog #182: Jon Clark On Building An SEO Agency & Happy Employees and Customers

Jaimie and Jon Clark came for a visit and we all spoke SEO and a lot more. Jaimie Clark is the VP of SEO at Centerfield, she was previously the Head of SEO at Wirecutter, a New York Times company...

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Google Search Algorithm Update On July 16th Or Was It Related To The Indexing Issue

As many of you know, there was a pretty massive indexing issue impacting new content in Google Search most of Friday, July 15th, but that was pretty much isolated to that Friday. Now, I am seeing signals of a Google search ranking algorithm update on Saturday, July 16th.

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