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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