Daily Search Forum Recap: November 30, 2022

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Google says again, but more strongly...

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Google: We Have Algorithms To Detect & Demote AI Altered Plagiarized Content

Duy Nguyen from Google's search quality team said in the Google office hours video that Google has "algorithms to go after" those who post AI plagiarized content, he the algorithms can "demote site scraping content from other sites."

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Google Has An Indoor Merry-Go-Round

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 29, 2022

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Got a lot of local SEO stuff for you, including longer...

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Google Business Profiles Now Showing Review Time For Some Edits

Google may now show you the time it takes to review a requested edit in Google Business Profiles. So if you edit, let's say, your business category, Google may show you that this type of edit takes about 10 minutes to be reviewed by someone at Google.

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Google Tests Carousel Format For Things To Know

Google is testing the Things to know search refinement expander feature in a carousel format. Normally, the Things to know is in this list format but here Google is testing it in a carousel format.

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Lizzi Sassman's Dog Co-Stars With John Mueller In Google Video

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 28, 2022

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So Many SEOs Just Don't Know Guest Post Links Should Be Nofollowed

The other day, I covered a poll that showed about half of SEOs still use guest posting for SEO purposes. Then a few days later, an SEO asked John Mueller about something and John told him that the guest post links should be nofollowed, and the SEO was shocked.

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Bing Tests Favicons In Front Of People Also Ask

Microsoft Bing is testing placing a favicon or icon of some sort in front of the people also ask results. The screenshot example below is from Frank Standtmann, a German-based SEO, who showed Wikipedia and other sites' favicon being placed before the people also ask results in Bing's search results.

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Google: There Is No SEO Compliance Score

Google's Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, said there is no such thing as an SEO compliance score from Google. He said instead think about avoiding technical errors, don't spam, and use best practices for your content.

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New Google Glass Structure With Stained Glass At GooglePlex

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 25, 2022

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Google Tests New People Also Ask User Interface

Google is testing a new design, layout, and user experience for the people also ask box in the Google Search results. This interface has results side by side and stacked on top and then when you click on a result, it loads the answer in a shaded box.

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Google Business Profiles Now Offering Suggested Services Areas

When you create a Google Business Profile and now go into creating service areas, Google may now offer you a list of suggested service areas in your region. Just be careful because these suggested service areas are based on your current location, not the location of the business.

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Matt Cutts Fought With Sergey Brin & Larry Page On That Google Search Can Be Spammed

Some of you may know that in the early days of Google, Google's co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page would say Google Search was immune to search spam. Matt Cutts, the former Google search spam lead, said recently on Reddit that he actually had to fight with the co-founders to prove that Google was indeed spammable.

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Gary Illyes Eating Japanese Dishes

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 23, 2022

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Can you believe it, many SEOs are still doing guest posts for links. Google's John Mueller spoke about subdomains, yes...

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Google Discover Changes "More Recommendations" Label To "More Products" Signaling Deeper Push Into Shopping And E-commerce

In March, I wrote a post about "More recommendations" being surfaced in Google Discover. The call to action would show up after researching products in Google Search and would lead to a "task dashboard" containing a boatload of content that helps users continue researching products (including articles, video, product comparison functionality, and more).

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Poll: Many SEOs Still Guest Post For SEO

A poll by Marie Haynes shows that many SEOs are still doing guest posting for SEO purposes. The poll had over 400 responses and only 44% of those who responded said they do not use guest posting for SEO reasons. 32% said they do and 12% said they do on occasion.

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Google Buttons Game Cake

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 22, 2022

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Stan, The Google Patriotic Dinosaur

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 21, 2022

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Google "Why To Watch" Carousel For Google Movie Reviews

Google seems to have added a new carousel to the movie search results named "why to watch." This carousel contains movie critique reviews, which is not new, but the user interface is new.

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Google Army Veteran Suited Up

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 18, 2022

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Google launched a ton of new features across search, maps...

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The New Google Viger Montreal Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 17, 2022

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Google Shopping Halloween Velma Dinkley From Scooby Doo

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 16, 2022

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Have you ever heard of the Google Coati update algorithm...

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Google: We Pick Up On URL Patterns That Don't Work But Should Slow Crawling Those URLs

Google's John Mueller confirmed that GoogleBot will crawl and pick up on URL patterns that simply do not work on your site. I mean, we have all seen this happen time and time again with sites we manage. But John added that the crawling should slow over time as Google picks up on this.

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Google NYC Diwali Celebration

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 15, 2022

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Google Super G String Logo Signage

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 14, 2022

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Google Business Reviews Going Missing After Suggested Edits (Scary Bug)

Google Business Profiles and business listings reviews are going missing, dropping out completely, again, but this time it seems to be related to automated suggested edits occurring on some business profiles.

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Google Local Reviews Shows Number Of Reviews From Reviewer By Category

Last week I reported on how Google Local reviews can display how many reviews a specific reviewer left in a specific city. Well, Google is also doing this by category, how many reviews a specific reviewer left for the business category type.

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Google's Greatest Talent Show Dancer

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 11, 2022

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Google Ads API v12 Updated Client Libraries & Code Examples

Google has updated the client libraries and code examples for the new Google Ads API version 12, which was released a couple of weeks ago.

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Bing Tests AI Chat Feature At Top Of Search Results

Microsoft is testing the AI chat bot feature at the top of the Bing Search results. We have seen the let's chat feature from Bing for a while now but not at the top, featured snippet area.

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Google Goose Park Photos & Videos

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 10, 2022

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Google Removes Search Features Bug Confirmation & Replaces It With Google Discover Search Console Reporting Error

Google has done something unusual, it has removed one of the confirmed data anomalies notes about a search features bug, and added a new note confirming a bug with Google Discover logging resulting in a data drop in the Search Console Discover performance reports on October 23rd.

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Mastodon Is Using Rel Noreferrer On Outbound Links Causing Visits To Appear As Direct Traffic In Google Analytics

Mastodon is surging with Twitter in chaos, but traffic from the social network will be hard to track. That's because Mastodon is using rel noferrer on outbound links causing visits to appear as Direct Traffic in Google Analytics.

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Google Champagne Glasses Are Still Arond

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 9, 2022

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Google: Child Elements Don't Count Towards Sitemap URL Limit

Google has updated the sitemap section of the localized pages search help documentation to say that "Child elements don't count towards the URL limit for sitemaps."

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Katie Couric At Google

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 8, 2022

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More Spend On PPC Than SEO, Twitter Poll

This should come as no surprise - but more people and companies spend more on PPC than on SEO. A Twitter poll from Lily Ray shows that but so does every other spending survey done in this industry.

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Google Deck Of Cards Wall

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 7, 2022

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Google Search Moves Lyrics Results To Right Side

Google has moved the lyric details from the main middle section of the Google Search results to the right side panel. Well, for most queries, but not all.

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Harp & Cello At Google

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 4, 2022

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Overgrown With Plants Google Logo

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 3, 2022

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Google Ads Changes Policies For Government Documents & Official Services

Google has announced some changes to the Google Ads policies for government documents and official services. Google said "in March 2023, the Google Ads Government documents and official services policy will be updated to allow government authorized providers to promote government documents and services."

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Google: Having Duplicate Content URLs In Sitemap File Won't Likely Cause Ranking Issues

Google's John Mueller confirmed on Twitter that having a Sitemap file that lists pages that are duplicative to others, won't necessarily cause ranking issues for your site. It might confuse Google when it comes to crawling but it should not impact rankings, John said.

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Google Search Features Bug Impacted Top Stories & Other Features On October 18th & 19th

Google has posted a short note in the Search Consoles data anomalies that says there was a bug in Google Search that affected some search features, including but not limited to the Top Stories search feature. Google said this started to be noticeable around October 18th and 19th and a fix was pushed out on October 28th that will take a week to fully rollout.

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John Mueller Holding A Google Webmasterplatz Sign

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 2, 2022

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Finally: Google Adds Lens Button To Desktop Homepage Search Bar

Google has finally added the Google Lens button to the Google.com homepage search bar. Rajan Patel from Google announced this quietly on Twitter saying the Google homepage, which rarely changes, has changed and pointed at the Google Lens button.

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Google Search Adds New Ways To Find Deals While Shopping

Google announced a few new ways to find and use online deals while searching for products and holiday gifts this season. The updates include clippable coupons and promotion codes, a way to compare deals side-by-side and a new price insights view.

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Google Search Console Verified Sites Do Not Get Crawled More

Google's John Mueller was asked if sites that are verified with Google Search Console get crawled more often or at a higher priority. The answer is no, "crawling is independent of Search Console," John said.

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Halloween Photos From Google Offices Around The World

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 1, 2022

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There may have been another Google algorithm update or adjustment on Friday...

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Microsoft Advertising Performance Max Import Tool Upgraded

Microsoft Advertising announced a few upgrades to the Google Ads Performance Max import tool before the holiday season. Most of it is around importing Performance Max campings that use a Merchant Center but not all.

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Google: No, Your Website Doesn't Need 200,000 Words To Be Considered Authoritative

Google's John Mueller said a website does not need to have 200,000 words to be considered authoritative. This comes after a Twitter thread said "You need around 200,000 words on your website to be considered authoritative by Google." John replied, "I don't know who made up that 200,000-word number, it's definitely not from Google."

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Googlers Host Off Site Ranch Retreat

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