Daily Search Forum Recap: August 31, 2022

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

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Google Search Browse Places Feature With Swipeable Cards

Google is testing a "browse places" search feature where it shows you place cards that you can swipe through and then click on. It is kind of like a new local pack grid view for restaurants, kind of...

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Google "See Results About" Goes Missing On Mobile Search

On August 17th, Google seems to have removed the "see results about" disambiguation search feature from the Google mobile search results. They still show on desktop but on mobile, it is gone.

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Yahoo! Sunnyvale Campus Is A Ghost Town With Imprint Of Old Sign Removed From Building

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 30, 2022

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Did Google Remove The Maps Review-Gating Policy?

Chris Silver Smith noticed how Google has updated its Google Maps contributed content policy and removed a line that prohibited review-gating. The line that was removed was "don't discourage or prohibit negative reviews or selectively solicit positive reviews from customers."

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Google Promotes Search Console Insights In Some Google Accounts

Molly Youngblood posted some screenshots on Twitter showing how Google is pushing her to check out Google Search Console Insights with a little banner that reads "New: Get insights about your site content." When she clicks on her account icon, it brings up a "Search Console Insights" button with a "new" label next to it.

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Microsoft Advertising RSAs Deadline Extended Again, This Time TO February 2023

Microsoft Advertising has extended the deadline to move from Expanded Text Ads to Responsive Search Ads once again. Instead of it being August 29, 2022, Microsoft is now pushing the deadline off to February 1st, 2023. This is another five months!

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Sub-Reviews: Google Local Reviews By Category & Attribute

Google is asking some Google Local Guides to leave sub-reviews about a single business listing. So Google might ask the local guide about the restrooms in the restaurant or the if the place is dog friendly.

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Google Local Business Structured Data Doesn't Support additionalType; Instead Use An Array

Google has clarified on its Local Business structured data help documentation that when you want to specify multiple types in Local Business structured data, specify them in an array and do not use additionalType, that isn't supported.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 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.

So far, at least by the time I wrote the story...

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Google Helpful Content Update Feedback Form

As you know, the Google helpful content update started to roll out on Thursday, August 25th. Google has opened up a feedback form for you to leave Google URLs of sites that you think shouldn't have been affected or other feedback.

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Google Tests Quick Read & 5 Minute Read Label In Search Results

Google is testing a new label in the search results to tell searchers what is a quick read or a page that takes less than five minutes to read. I love this, Google is showing a searcher that they can scan through a piece of content quickly.

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Google: Soft 404s Do Waste Crawl Budget

Google's Gary Illyes said on the latest Search Off The Record podcast that soft 404s, pages Google thinks are 404s but return a 200 server status code, do waste crawl budget. However, 404s or 410s do not waste crawl budget, Gary added.

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Google: Adding Video Structured Data Won't Make Your Video More Prominent

Google's John Mueller said that adding video structured data to pages with videos on them will not make that video more prominent on that page. This comes from a video indexing issue notice in Google Search Console.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 26, 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.

It's been a long week, with being on vacation...

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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Helpful Content Update Live, Search Console News, Google Ads Local Campaigns Auto-Upgrades

Google has begun rolling out the helpful content update on Thursday...

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Google Business Profile Tests Captions On Business Photos

Google is testing allowing business owners add captions or descriptions to photos they upload to their business profiles. Mike Blumenthal spotted this in a Google Business Profile Help thread and also posted about it on Twitter.

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Bing Tests People Also Ask In Carousel UX

Microsoft Bing is testing a carousel format and user experience for the people also ask. Normally we will the people also ask in a list view, but the carousel test gives you the question and answer immediately.

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Google Says Cloaking Affiliate Links Does Not Gain You Anything

Google's John Mueller was asked about the pros and cons of cloaking affiliate links. John responded on Twitter saying, "I don't think you gain anything by cloaking the affiliate links, it just adds complexity. You can use a DB-driven setup without cloaking too."

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Google Search Conversations & Discussion and Forums

Google has had these discussion carousels for the past couple of years. Now Google also spotted a "conversations" box and also a "discussions and forums" box in Google Search.

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Google Local Service Ads To Allow You To Exclude Areas

Google Local Service Ads is testing and may eventually launch a new user interface to allow businesses and advertisers to exclude their ads from showing in certain areas.

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Inside View Of A Google NYC Outside View

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 25, 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 now officially rolling out the helpful content update...

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Google Expanded From Sources Across The Web Feature

Google has this "from sources across the web" box that shows sites that cover a specific topic in this grid list view. You can click on a specific site to expand and show recent stories from that site on that topic.

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Google: Quality Raters Guidelines Are Not A Collection Of Ranking Tips

Google's John Mueller said that the Google quality raters guidelines are "not a collection of ranking tips." He said the quality raters guidelines "can be useful" to think about but again, they are not just a list of ranking tips.

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Google: Don't Noindex Pages With Comments, Keep The Good Comments Only

I am weird, I love user-generated comments and while tons of blogs removed them ages and ages ago, I kept them here. I do my best to remove the spam comments and keep the comments that are not spam. John Mueller of Google recently said he would not noindex pages with comments, instead, he would remove the spam comments and keep the good comments.

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Google Adds Content Guidelines To Education Q&A Structured Data Docs

Google has added a new section to the Education Q&A structured data documentation for content guidelines. Google added three higher-level content guidelines around this type of structured data.

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Google Helpful Content Update Is Now Rolling Out

The Google helpful content update is now rolling out. It can take up to two weeks to fully roll out. I'm currently typing this on my mobile phone but I wanted to get this up while I am out on vacation.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 24, 2022

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Google Discover Also Let's You Hide Content From Authors

The other day we reported that Google Discover was showing the author name under the article and not the site name, for some stories. Well, Google Discover can now let you hide content from showing up based on who writes it, despite where it might be published.

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Google Ads Automatic Upgrades To Performance Max For Local Campaigns

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

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Google Search Tests Popular On Twitter Box

Google is testing a new title for some of the Twitter carousel results in Google Search. I guess if something is trending on Twitter, Google will label the Twitter carousel as "Popular on Twitter."

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Google Deprecates International Targeting Report In Search Console

Google has announced on Twitter that it has deprecated the International Targeting report in Google Search Console. Google's international SEO advice has not changed with this but the International Targeting report will no longer work going forward.

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Google Adds "View All Business Profiles" In Web Search Results

As Google continues to migrate off of the old Google My Business manager to the web search interface to manage your business, Google keeps adding subtle but more features. Now, when you search [my business] in Google, Google will show you a link to "View All Business Profiles" in the web search results, instead of just showing you three profiles.

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Google Mini Basketball Game

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 23, 2022

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Google Tests New Local Service Ads UX

Google is testing a new layout and user experience for the Local Service Ads. This interface has the local service ads on the left and when you click on one, the box expands to the right with all of the details on the business.

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Google Ads: No Plans For Ad Customizers Using Location For Responsive Search Ads

Google's Ad Liasion, Ginny Marvin, confirmed on Twitter last week that there are no plans to add support ad customizers for responsive search ads, not now and not in the near future.

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Google Bar At The Chicago Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 22, 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.

Many SEOs don't seem too concerned about the upcoming Google helpful content update...

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Poll: Many SEOs Say The Content They Produce Is Helpful & Not Concerned

As you know, Google will soon roll out the helpful content update and it has some SEOs and site owners a bit on edge. But a recent poll Aleyda Solis posted on Twitter shows that almost 50% of SEOs feel the content they produce is helpful and are thus not worried about this algorithm update.

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Google: API Not Impacted By Search Console Indexing Label Bug

Last week we reported that Google Search Console had an embarrassing bug where it was reporting pages as being indexed, when those pages were not indexed by Google Search. The good news is that the URL Inspection tool API was not impacted by this bug, Daniel Waisberg from Google confirmed.

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Google Search Console Video Index Report Now 100% Live

A month ago, Google started to slowly roll out the video index report within Google Search Console. Now that rollout is complete, Google announced on Twitter this morning.

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Google Maps: Your Review Isn't Posted Email

Google Maps is now notifying reviewers when their review isn't posted. The email says "your review isn't posted" and explains why. In the case below, Google said its moderation systems and processes considered the review to be fake.

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Google: Just Because You Didn't Write It, Doesn't Mean Google Won't Count It Against You

Google's John Mueller explained that Google doesn't really care who wrote the content on your site and saying someone else wrote it and you did not write it won't save you from ranking issues related to the quality of that third-party content.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 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...

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Google: HTTPS Is Not A Requirement To Rank In Google Search

Google's John Mueller was asked if Google still ranks sites that are on HTTP (not over HTTPS), i.e. insecure sites. John said yes, being on HTTPS is not a requirement to rank in Google Search he explained.

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Google Search On How Many Ads Are Too Much For Your Site

Google's John Mueller was asked what percentage of content-to-ad ratio is too much to rank well in Google Search. As you can imagine, John said there is no number he can share. He said you should just know, if it is "too much" - you'd know.

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Google: No SEO Benefit For Either Dynamic Rendering Or Server Side Rendering

Recently Google recommended strongly against using dynamic rendering as a workaround for JavaScript sites going forward, Google updated its help documentation to strongly say not to use it. But that does not mean it would hurt your rankings, today, to use dynamic rendering compared to server-side rendering.

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Google Party For Reveal Of Android 13 Statue Swing

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 18, 2022

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Google Can & Does Drop URLs From Its Index Over Time

Most SEOs that have been doing the search engine optimization thing for any amount of time know that Google can and likely will drop out URLs from the Google index. John Mueller from Google confirmed that this happens with Google Search on Twitter the other day.

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Google AdSense Does Not Help Your Site Rank Better In Google

Google has once again said that placing Google AdSense ads on your site will not and does not help your site rank better in Google Search. Danny Sullivan of Google responded to this one on Twitter confirming that Google Search does not look if the site has AdSense ads on them for ranking.

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Rooftop Playground At Google Dublin Office

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Affiliates Swapping Out Dofollow Tracking Links After Google Product Reviews Update

One space that seemed to be hit the hardest by the last Google Product reviews update - the July 2022 update - was the affiliate space. Some affiliates are scrambling to make changes to see a return of their rankings and one change I see affiliates are talking about are swapping out dofollow affiliate tracking URLs with other tracking URLs.

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Google: Tons Of SEOs & Sites Produce Terrible Content Not Worth Indexing

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that "lots of SEOs & sites produce terrible content that's not worth indexing," when someone was complaining his content was not indexed. "Just because it exists doesn't mean it's useful to users," he added.

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Google: The Model Your Site Was Built On Is No Longer Feasible

Google's John Mueller explained that for some sites, the model and fundamentals the site was built upon are "just no longer feasible." He explained this when someone asked how long it would take to see recoveries after a Google algorithm update. John said "fundamental quality issues" can take longer than just a month to resolve and sometimes never.

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Google Search Displaying Far Fewer FAQ Rich Results Today

Rank Ranger reports show a significant drop again with the rich results for FAQs in the Google search results. Earlier this month 31% of the results the company tracked had FAQ rich results, now it is down to only 18% of those search results.

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Google Tests Larger Live Stream Box In Search Results

Google's live stream box in search was mostly found in carousels or thin list view interfaces. But now Google seems to be showing them in a more prominent manner for some queries. Maybe this is not new but

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Outdoor Foosball Table At Google NYC

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 16, 2022

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

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Your Google Ads Summary Snapshot Box In Google Search Results

Google seems to be testing showing a new search box in the Google Search results for a summary view of your Google Ads. The box is named "Your Google Ads Summary" and shows a preview of your ad that is active and explains that "your ads can show for this search."

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Google Merchant Center Policy For Missing Return/Refund Policy Or Insufficient Contact Info Updated

Google has updated its Google Merchant Center policy for free listings only specific to the "Insufficient contact information" or the "Missing return and refund policy." Free listings will no longer be disapproved but instead, they may "have limited visibility on Google," Google wrote.

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Google Tests Popular Destinations Overlays Google Travel Details

Google seems to be testing overlaying on top of the web search results the popular destinations feature and details you'd normally get in Google Travel. Previously, Google would show you a snippet and when you clicked in for more, it would take you to Google Travel.

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Google Tests Expandable Maps In Search & Tabs In Map Results (Again)

Google is testing an expandable map feature in Google Search for when you see the map load in mobile search. This is instead of when you click on the map and it takes you into Google Maps, here Google is just expanding the map screen larger and adds a link to go to Google Maps.

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Peter The Greeter Google Dance

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 15, 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.

If you are not happy with the latest Google product reviews update...

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Google Search Console Validate Fix Now Back

Google has reenabled the validate fix feature in Google Search Console just now. It was not there a couple of hours ago and has been not working since the beginning of this month but now it is back.

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Vlog #185: Sarah Burke On The Benefits Of Google Analytics 4 & Why Data Dashboards Are Important

In part one, we learned about Sarah Burke, the Data and Analytics Manager at Cypress North. We also spoke about some of the differences between Google Analytics 4 and Universal Analytics 3. Here we talk about the benefits of Google Analytics 4.

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Bing Shopping Searches Gains Coupons, Promotions, Price History & More

Microsoft Bing Shopping has officially added a lot of the features we noticed early such as coupons and promotions, price history, and ethical choice annotations, the company announced.

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Google: What To Do With Old Event Pages

What do you do if you run an event and the event is over, do you keep the webpage live, do you redirect it, do you just delete it and 404 the page? The answer is it depends, as you'd imagine.

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IndexNow Is Growing But Should You Pay Attention?

Microsoft's IndexNow protocol is growing and the search company keeps investing in it, despite Google not adopting it - yet. Microsoft said that more than 16 million websites are publishing over 1.2 billion URLs per day to the IndexNow API.

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Google Discover With Author Names Instead Of Site Name

Google Discover can now show the author name of a specific story instead of showing the site name under the story. I personally do not use Google Discover much but a couple of savvy Google Discover users noticed this over the weekend.

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Are Not Happy With The Last Google Product Reviews Update? Tell Google.

The last Google product reviews update, the July 2022 Google Product Reviews Update, was an interesting one. It felt, based on SEO and webmaster feedback, that it just didn't hit the mark in terms of quality relative to past Product reviews updates. If you have examples of where and how Google got it wrong, you can let Google know about it.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 12, 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 now says its guaranteed ads, the local service ads...

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Google Guaranteed Local Ads Adds Reviews Not Guaranteed Disclaimer

Google has added a label on the Google Guaranteed Local Service Ads reviews to say the reviews are not guaranteed. This I guess comes as no surprise with all the Google Local Service Ads spam and junk we have been noticing recently.

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Google: Clicking On Your Site In Google Search Won't Hurt Or Help Your Rankings

One of the oldest myths in the Google SEO-verse is that clicking on your search results in Google Search will help you rank better. Google does not and has never used click data for ranking purposes (with the exception of a short period of Google+ data being used in Google Search).

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Google: Sitemap 50,000 Limit Based On Location URLs, Not Alternative URLs

We know that each XML sitemap file can contain a maximum of 50,000 URLs but what is counted as the 50,000 URLs? John Mueller was asked if Google counts both the location URL and the alternative URL in the 50,000 limits. John said it is just the location URL.

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Google Image Search Now Uses Google Lens

Google Images at images.google.com now uses Google Lens when you click on the upload a photo icon. This has been coming for a long long time and is finally fully here.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 11, 2022

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

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Google 404s Rich Media File Best Practices Help Document

Google has deleted and 404ed the Rich media file best practices. Google said removed its "documentation about rich-media files, such as Silverlight and Flash." Why? This is the best part, Google wrote "turns out it's not 2005 anymore."

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Google Adds GTIN12 Property To Product Structured Data Support Doc

Google has the gtin12 property to the Product structured data documentation in its help center. Note, the gtin12 property was always supported but Google just didn't have it in the documentation until today. Google also clarified that you can use the generic gtin property for all GTINs, but Google said it recommends that you use the most specific one if possible.

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Google Search Console Performance Report For Discover Reporting Issue On July 26

Google has confirmed it had a reporting issue in the Google Search Console Performance Report for Discover traffic. Google said the issue was on July 26th and may result in a drop in clicks and impressions on or around that date.

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Google Tests Search Refinements In Autocomplete For Desktop

Google may be testing showing search refinements in the autocomplete, Google Suggest, in the desktop search experience. We saw this a year or so ago in mobile search and now we see it on desktop search.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 10, 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.

FYI...

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Google Follow Feature Docs Now Say Use Descriptive Titles For RSS Feed & Use A Single Feed

Google has made a couple of tweaks to the documentation for the Follow Feature in Google Search. Google added you should use (1) descriptive titles for your RSS feed and (2) a single feed even if you have multiple.

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Google: Dynamic Rendering Is A Workaround and Not A Long-Term Solution

Google has updated its help documentation on dynamic rendering to say "dynamic rendering is a workaround and not a long-term solution for problems with JavaScript-generated content in search engines. "Instead, we recommend that you use server-side rendering, static rendering, or hydration as a solution," Google added.

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Google Search Showing Fewer Review Rich Results In Shopping Vertical

Google may be showing fewer reviews in the search result snippets, fewer review rich results, specifically when you filter by the shopping vertical. This seemed to happen right when Google released the Google Product Reviews update, there was a five percentage point drop in the number of review snippets for this category.

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Google Search Console Reporting To Gain Google Lens? Not Yet...

As Google Lens becomes more and more popular, SEOs are asking, will we be able to see what traffic we get from Google Lens in Google Search Console? The answer is that Google Search Console currently does not support showing Google Lens traffic or data and likely won't in the foreseeable future.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 9, 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 Clarifies GTIN Values Must Be In Numerical Form

Google has quietly updated its product structured data document to specify that the GTIN value must be presented is in numerical form. Google said it does not support the URL form for GTINs.

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Google Keyword Planner Newish Feature: Organize Keywords Into Ad Groups

Google has added a newish feature to the Keyword Planner tool to organize keywords into ad groups. The reason I say newish is because Search Engine Land explained it was in beta but now it is available to everyone.

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Google Local Service Ads New Weekly Email Performance Summary

Google has revised the emails they are sending Local Service Ads advertisers with a new email that says "Weekly recap | See how your ads did this week."

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Google Search Is Very Broken Now: Outages, Indexing Issues, Pages Missing & More

Last night, Google suffered a pretty big outage with Google Search that is still lingering through this morning. It seemed to be larger than just an outage because there are tons of complaints about indexing issues, pages dropping out of the index, and super poor quality and dated search results being shown in Google this morning.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 8, 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.

Over the weekend we saw a lot of volatility in the Google search results...

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Vlog #184: Part I: Sarah Burke On Data Analytics and Differences Between GA 4 & UA3

Sarah Burke is the Data and Analytics Manager at Cypress North, she has been with the company for seven years, starting as a digital marketing manager. Prior to that...

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Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update On Saturday, August 6th - PRU Tremors Or Something Else?

On Saturday, August 6th, we saw a lot of signals that there was another Google Search ranking algorithm update. It is not clear if these are tremors for the finished Google products reviews update from July 2022 or if this is something new and different.

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Google: Noindex On One URL In An Hreflang Cluster Can Impact All The URLs In That Cluster

In the latest Search Off the Record podcast, Lizzi Sassman of Google asked Gary Illyes of Google about using a noindex on international URLs in an hreflang set. Gary said it can potentially lead to the whole cluster being noindexed.

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Google Search Image Preview Overlay Now Fully Live In Web Search Results

Several days ago we reported how Google was testing a web search feature for the image pack that keeps you within web search when you click on a specific image. Well, this image preview pack overlay feature seems to be fully live for me and others.

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Google Local Spam Now Includes Duplicate Photos, Posts, Videos, and Logos

Google has updated its Business Profile posts content policy to specify that Google now considers duplicate photos, posts, videos, and logos as spam. If you have duplicate photos, posts, videos, and logos on your Google Business Profile, your post may be removed but your listing won't be suspended.

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Google Now Supports Pros and Cons Structured Data For Reviews Pages

Google now supports new structured data for pros and cons of editorial review pages. This new markup can be validated in the Rich Results testing tool and other Search Console tools (I assume). Also, Google will prioritize supplied structured data provided by you over automatically extracted data that Google previously showed in Google Search.

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A Real Google Map - A Map Of The GooglePlex

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 5, 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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July 2022 Google Product Reviews Update Finished On August 2nd & No One Said Anything

So Google has finished the rollout of the July 2022 Google Product Reviews Update in a record-breaking fashion, in a six-day period. It even shocked Google because Google originally estimated 14-21 days for the rollout and Google didn't even mention anything on its social channels about the update being done rolling out.

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Google Business Listings Test Photo Overlay Interface In Web Search

Google seems to be testing overlaying the photos of some Google Business Profile listings in the web search results. Typically when you click on a photo in a Google Business Profile listing you are taken into the Google Maps interface to view the photos but this test simply overlays the photos on top of the web search results.

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RankRanger: Google Things To Know Back In Desktop Search Results

About two weeks ago, Google stopped showing the Things To Know box in the desktop search results but don't fret, it seems to be back now. RankRanger's tracker tool spotted that the Things To Know box has returned to normal levels within Google Search.

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Google Updates Searches With Quotes To Show Location Of Page That Contains Quoted Words

Google announced it has changed how it displays search results for queries that use queries. The search snippet will now display the portion of the page where the quotes match, so the searcher knows where to look on the page when clicking through to the URL.

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Google Ads Editor & API Now Support Discovery Ads, Plus New Audience Insights

Google announced a bunch of new things for Google Discover Ads yesterday. They include that the Google Ads Editor and Google Ads API now support Discovery ads, there are new audience insights at the Discovery campaign level, and new support for images with text overlays.

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Outside Of The Google Chicago Subway Cars

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 4, 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 Loading A New People Also Ask In The Footer Section Of Search

Google is dynamically loading a new<<� people also ask section in the footer of the search results after you interact with the people also ask section in the upper section of the Google Search results.

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Google Search View In 3D For Some Wayfair Listings

Google first demonstrated view in 3D augmented reality images in the Google Search results back in 2019 and since then we have seen some retailers test it out and Google also use it for cute animals and other objects. But now it seems some core retailers, like Wayfair, is showing some of their products in 3D in Google Search.

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Google Adds Content Guidelines Links For Bloggers, Hosts, E-Commerce Sites & More

Google added links to its overview of guidelines page with five-more links, keep in mind, that this content is not new, they were published back in April in the Google Search developer resources.

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Google Adds Asian Owned Business Attribute For Business Profiles

Google has added yet another business attribute for Google Business Profiles - Asian-owned businesses. This is a new label that can be added to your business in Google Maps and Google Search "making it easier to find Asian-owned businesses in their own community," Google said.

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Five Years Later: Sites Still Being Migrated To Google's Mobile First Indexing

Google started its mobile-first indexing initiative over 5 years and 8 months ago, in November 2016. But we still have sites that are being migrated over from Google desktop-first indexing to mobile-first indexing in 2022.

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Google Train Station Clock

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 3, 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.

I posted the large Google webmaster report for August...

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August 2022 Google Webmaster Report

Here is the large Google webmaster report for August 2022 - catching you all up on what you may have missed in the past month related to Google search and SEO topics. We had a confirmed Google algorithm update, the July 2022 product reviews update, we had a large indexing outage and several unconfirmed updates.

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Tracking Tools Now Picking Up On The July 2022 Google Product Reviews Update Volatility?

So we have been watching the July 2022 Google Product Reviews Update for some time and noticed that based on SEO chatter from within the community, it likely really kicked in on Friday afternoon. But the automated Google search result tracking tools really did not show much, in aggregate, but as of this morning, they now are.

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Google Tag - A New Version

Google announced a new Google Tag that Google says will "unlock new capabilities to help you do more, improve data quality and adopt new features - without requiring more code." Google Tag Manager is not changing today but it sounds like it will change in the future.

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Microsoft Advertising Rolls Out Automotive Ads, New Ad Formats, More Bidding Options, Plus More

Microsoft announced its monthly updates for the Microsoft Advertising platform. This includes rolling out automotive ads, new ad formats, more bidding options, vertical ads and so much more.

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Google Tests Site Name & Favicon On Image Results Within Web Search

Google is testing promoting the source of the images it displays in web search by adding the full site name and the favicon from the site in the image box. This was spotted by James on Twitter and I simply cannot replicate this.

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G Logo In Cement Pillar At Google Germany

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 2, 2022

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

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Legal Ruling May Allow Rumble To See Some Of Google's Secret Ranking Algorithms

Glenn Greenwald reported that a "federal district court in California on Friday denied Google's motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that the Silicon Valley giant is violating federal antitrust laws by preventing fair competition against its YouTube video platform." This may result in Rumble being able to see parts of Google's secret search ranking algorithm.

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Google Continues To Work On Deduplicating Multiple Ad Listings After LSAs Example

Joy Hawkins pointed out an example of Google Local Service Ads showing duplicate listings for the same law firm for the same query. Google has policies against that and asked if those policies are effective, to which Google's Ad Liaison said yes, and they continue to work to improve with those efforts.

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John Mueller Beautiful SEO Rant On Doing Versus Reading

I know some of you may not like it and may think I am some sort of suck-up for covering this but there is so much truth and beauty to John Mueller's recent SEO rant. He said, "maybe you should stop reading SEO blogs and instead do something useful for your site & its users?"

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Google: Update Internal Links From HTTP To HTTPS But...

If you are on an HTTP site and you decide to migrate the site to HTTPS, it is common practice to update all of your internal links from the HTTP URL format to the HTTPS URL format. Google's John Mueller was asked about this on Reddit and he said "I'd always try to fix internal links, it just makes things cleaner, and is under your own control. I doubt it would have any visible effect though."

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Google Search Console Validate Fix For Coverage Report Not Working Right Now

Yesterday afternoon Google temporarily disabled the ability to validate fixes for issues in the coverage report. This is related to some "minor updates" the Google Search Console is adding to those coverage reports over "the next few days."

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Rare Google Dublin Rooftop Outdoors Lunch

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 1, 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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July 2022 Google Product Reviews Update Kicked In Friday Afternoon

On July 27th Google said it began to roll out the July 2022 Google Product Reviews update. But we didn't see it impact the Google search results until a couple of days later on Friday afternoon, July 29th.

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Being In Close Contact With Google Doesn't Benefit You Or Me

Being in close contact with Google or the people that work at Google really does not benefit you (or me). The is just the simple truth - you just won't benefit from that.

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Google Perspectives Search Results

Google seems to be testing a new search box and feature titled "perspectives." Perspectives seem to give searchers answers to a more broad and maybe philosophical type of query.

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Google Business Profile Tests Expandable Menu In Web Search

Google Search is testing a new expanded menu for the Google Business Profile tool in Google Web Search. This allows you to click an arrow down to expand the options to edit your business profile directly in the desktop Google Search interface.

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Google Doesn't Care How Many Facebook Tracking Links Are In GTM

It seems Google does not care how many Facebook tracking links you have in your Google Tag Manager, especially for Google Search reasons. John Mueller was asked about this and said "I'm not aware of anyone at Google, much less in Search, caring about that."

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Holding A Google NYC Manhole

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