Daily Search Forum Recap: August 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.

Google now says its guaranteed ads, the local service ads...

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Google Guaranteed Local Ads Adds Reviews Not Guaranteed Disclaimer

Google has added a label on the Google Guaranteed Local Service Ads reviews to say the reviews are not guaranteed. This I guess comes as no surprise with all the Google Local Service Ads spam and junk we have been noticing recently.

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Google: Clicking On Your Site In Google Search Won't Hurt Or Help Your Rankings

One of the oldest myths in the Google SEO-verse is that clicking on your search results in Google Search will help you rank better. Google does not and has never used click data for ranking purposes (with the exception of a short period of Google+ data being used in Google Search).

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Google: Sitemap 50,000 Limit Based On Location URLs, Not Alternative URLs

We know that each XML sitemap file can contain a maximum of 50,000 URLs but what is counted as the 50,000 URLs? John Mueller was asked if Google counts both the location URL and the alternative URL in the 50,000 limits. John said it is just the location URL.

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Google Image Search Now Uses Google Lens

Google Images at images.google.com now uses Google Lens when you click on the upload a photo icon. This has been coming for a long long time and is finally fully here.

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Yellow Hallway At Google NYC

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