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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Riding A Google Bumper Car

Riding The Google Bumper Car

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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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