Daily Search Forum Recap: June 8, 2022

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



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Google May 2022 Core Update Not Done Yet...

Today is officially day 14 since the May 2022 core update first started rolling out and it does not seem to be done rolling out yet - it is not complete. Google's Danny Sullivan said last night "We're not there yet." I asked Google's John Mueller this morning and he didn't say it was done yet.


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Google Search With Both Short Videos & Visual Stories (Within An Accordion)

A month ago, we reported how the trend Google is headed is going away from web stories / visual stories and headed towards showing more short videos. Well, now we are seeing Google show the short videos very prominently in the search results, and then also showing visual stories lower down in an accordion to expand and show more.


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Bing Adds Visit Site Button To Branded Sidebar Navigation

A couple weeks ago we reported how Microsoft Bing was testing a branded sidebar search results snippet feature on the left side bar. Well, Bing added a "Visit Site" button to that sidebar at the top - which makes this more visible feature even more visible.


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Google: You Can Restrict XML Sitemaps Access To Search Engines

Google's John Mueller said it is acceptable to restrict access of your XML Sitemaps to just search engines. So you can technically block humans from seeing your XML sitemaps but allow Google to access it.


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