SEO: 09/01/2022 - 10/01/2022

Daily Search Forum Recap: September 30, 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 testing "more like this" star feature...

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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Core & Product Reviews Update Done, Local Search Ranking Bug Fixed, Search On Event Recap & More

Google has finished rolling out both the September 2022 core update and product reviews update on Monday, September 26th - yes, there is a lot of confusion. Google fixed a bug with the local search rankings and service area businesses. Google had its big Search On event...

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Google Tests Shady Design For Product Panels

Google is testing another design for the product panels in Google Search. This new design shades the boxes for some of the products and reviews, etc. It also moves some of the filters around.

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Google Search: When A Brand Becomes More Popular Than The Meaning Of The Word

There are some brands that have generic names that have become more popular than the actual meaning of the word. In those cases, Google Search may rank or show information about the brand over the meaning of the word.

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Google Testing Things To Know On Right Search Panel

Google is testing the placement of the Things To Know section on the right-side panel. Typically, you find these within the main search results in the middle portion of the search results.

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Google: Page Speed Issues Wouldn't Lead To Your Site Being Removed From Google Search

Google's John Mueller said that your site or page would not be removed from the Google Search results over page speed issues. He was asked about this on Twitter and said no, page speed won't lead to your site on the basis of page speed.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 29, 2022

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Google Really Wants You To Avoid Changing URLs Just For SEO Reasons

Google's John Mueller has put down some strong language against changing your URLs for SEO reasons alone. He basically said in most cases, changing URLs will have a negative impact on SEO and that you probably should not change URLs just for SEO reasons.

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Google Ballroom Dancing

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 28, 2022

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Google: There Is No Percentage To Measure Duplicate Content

Google's John Mueller asked if there was some sort of percentage people can use to determine if their content may be considered duplicative or not. John said there is none and he asked how would you measure such a thing.

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Google Chicago Tumblers

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 27, 2022

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Google Wood Room Area

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 26, 2022

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Vlog #190: Marguarite Humphrey's Career & Challenges Of Working With Large Franchises In Search Marketing

Marguarite (Maggie) Humphrey worked at Cypress North as an intern back in 2019, then went to DAC for a few years...

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Google Local Search Ranking Bug Fix Rolling Out

A couple of weeks ago we reported on a possible Google local search ranking update that turned out to not be an update but rather a bug. Well, that bug seems to be fixed or being fixed now and rankings are beginning to return for these local service area businesses.

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Google Search No Results Found Fishing Game Gone Fishing

A year ago, last November, Google started to show this GIF of a fishing bot of some sort when Google returned no results. Well, sometime in the past weeks or so, Google stopped showing this fishing man.

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Google Product Review Updates Still Get Periodic Updates That Google May Not Announce

Just a reminder, since I am seeing this question come up often. The Google product reviews update is updated periodically, just like with core updates. Google will run them every now and then as it sees fit, so far, Google confirmed five different product review updates.

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Google Updates Animal Sound Button In Search

Back in 2016, Google Search came out with a way to hear animal sounds in the knowledge panel. Google recently updated the play sound icon or button in Google Search to make it an animated GIF of animals coming out of the play button.

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Google Dublin Stairs

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Programming Note: Rosh Hashanah 5783 - Happy & Healthy Jewish New Year

This is a programming note that Monday and Tuesday are Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and I will be offline the next two days. I will be offline Monday and Tuesday, September 26th and September 27th...

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 23, 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 a confirmed Google Ads issue that may cause serving and budget issues, and yes...

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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google's Overlapping Algorithm Updates, Product Reviews Update, Confusing HTTPS Report & Google Ads Serving Bug

In this week's video, we cover how Google said they try not to overlap search algorithm updates but then announced the rollout of the fifth product reviews update before the core update was done. We also dug into the product reviews...

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Google De-Duplicates Search Results Based On Almost Duplicates

Google's John Mueller said Google Search will de-duplicate its search results based on almost duplicates. John said this on Twitter the other day when asked about canonicalizing international URLs.

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Bing Tests Colored Sitelink Boxes

Microsoft Bing is testing background colors for the sitelinks section of the search result snippet. I am not sure I like this look but it does indeed make the sitelinks stand out a lot - what do you think?

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Google Search & Google Ads Do Not Guarantee Conversions

Google's John Mueller and Ginny Marvin said that both on the organic search side and paid search ad side, Google does not guarantee clicks will lead to conversions.

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Google Ads Bug May Prevent Some Ads From Serving

Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, posted last night that Google Ads has an issue where some ads may not be served. "Google is aware of an internal issue impacting ads serving," she wrote. She said, "the impact of this issue may prevent ads from serving in certain circumstances for your account."

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Google Europaallee Space Looks Stunning...

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 22, 2022

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What We're Seeing From The Google Product Reviews Update #5

As you know, Google began to roll out the fifth Google product reviews update on September 20th during the roll-out of the September 2022 core update. I promised to return and share some of what we're seeing with this update, as it rolls out.

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This Googler Applied To Google 19 Times Before Being Accepted

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 21, 2022

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YouTube Recording Studio

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 20, 2022

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Miniature Google Indoor RV

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 19, 2022

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Balance Beam At Google Office

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New Streamlined Google Ads Tools & Google Ad Extensions Now Assets

Google announced it has renamed the Google Ads extensions to "assets" plus it has released new workflows, tools and reports to "make it easy for you to deliver more engaging ads and provide you with helpful, actionable information about their performance."

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String Formed Super G Logo

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 15, 2022

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Google: Word Count Is Not A Sign Of Thin Or Unhelpful Content

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter this morning that word count is not a sign or factor for what Google considers to be thin content or unhelpful content. John wrote, "Word count is not a sign that a page is thin content."

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Google Ads Scripts Gains Support For Performance Max Campaigns

Google announced that Google Ads scripts now support Performance Max campaigns. Google said, "this treated as a brand new campaign type in scripts, similar to how video or shopping campaigns already work."

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Stuffed Animal Bears At Google Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 14, 2022

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Google Merchant Listings Expanded, More Structured Data Properties & New Search Console Reports

Google announced a lot of new features and availability around shopping and product experiences in Google Search yesterday. Google expanded eligibility for merchant listing experiences, added more structured data properties, and released new Google Search Console reporting.

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Google's Daniel Waisberg Blowing A Shofar

Daniel Waisberg of Google Blowing A Shofar

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 13, 2022

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Google announced a new core update yesterday and so far and early on...

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Google Review Guidelines Now Prohibit Incentivizing Removal Of Negative Reviews

Google has updated its Google Maps contributor guidelines, specifically disallowing a business to incentivize those who leave negative reviews to remove those reviews. Previously, the guidelines only prohibited incentivizing leaving positive reviews.

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Bonsai Plant At Google Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 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.

There was a core update announced today...

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Google Helpful Content Update Finished On 9/9 But Were Those Fluctuations Related To HCU

The Google helpful content update finished rolling out around 2 pm ET on September 9th. That morning we reported we started to notice more widespread volatility and fluctuations, possibly related to the helpful content update. But now I am thinking that maybe those or most of those fluctuations were unrelated to the helpful content update?

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Google Ball Pit Pool

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 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.

We are finally seeing movement, big volatility...

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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Helpful Content Update Impact, Search Console Review Type Changes, Google Ads Updates & More

This week, I posted the large Google webmaster report a bit late but then dug into the Google helpful content in a lot more detail...

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Google Peranakan Tile

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 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.

Are we seeing big movements with the Google helpful content update...

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Google Updated Review-Type Results That Can Impact Search Console Reports

Google has posted that it began upgrading some review-type results to product-type results in Search, and has been able to generate some new product type results. This started on August 22, 2022 and as a result, your Search Console performance and rich results report may be impacted.

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Google Tests Site Name Above URL In Mobile Search Results & Rounded Favicons Again

Google is testing, again, placing the site name above the URL and description in the mobile search result snippets. Also, we are seeing more rounded favicons in those snippets as well.

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Dragon At Google Singapore

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 7, 2022

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New Google Featured Snippet With Multiple Answers, New Design, Callouts & More?

I am wondering if the screenshots below are the new featured snippet callouts Google spoke about almost a month ago. You can see bolded callouts, multiple answers for a featured snippet block, and a newish design that looks a bit like the knowledge panel design test we saw earlier.

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Danny Sullivan: Google Helpful Content Update Is Big But Not A Huge Shake-Up

So many of you, including myself, are wondering why Google would make such a big deal of an upcoming update when the update itself is not that huge of a shakeup to the search results. There is an interesting back and forth between Glenn Gabe, an SEO consultant, and Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison, about just that.

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Outdoor Google Bowling

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 6, 2022

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You Don't Want Google To Rank Your Site In Specific Regions

Google's Gary Illyes was on Reddit offering advice to one SEO who simply does not want traffic from Google from users in specific regions. The reason is, that they don't ship to all locations and they don't want a ton of abandoned carts. So if they can avoid getting traffic from the places they do not ship to, that can help reduce those issues.

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Field Day At Google Boulder

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 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.

For Labor Day...

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Google Ads To Disapprove Ads That Don't Meet Better Ads Standards

Google Ads sent out emails on Friday to advertisers of a change coming to its policies starting in October 2022. The change says that if your destinations contain ad experiences that do not conform to the Better Ads Standards then the ad will be disapproved.

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