Google's Google's New Year's Eve doodle for 2023 is live in some regions and will be live in New York in the next five hours or so. If you want a sneak peek at it early, here it is.
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Google New Years Eve Search Algorithm Update
There has been a ton of chatter within the SEO community over the past couple of days related to extreme ranking volatility within the Google Search results. The Google tracking tools have also picked up the volatility over the past day or so. There is no way Google pushed out a confirmed update this week but hey, Google's search results live a life of their own.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 29, 2023
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Sundar Pichai Merry Christmas Android & Christmas Tree Photo
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 28, 2023
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 27, 2023
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Bing Chat added favicons to the links...
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 26, 2023
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John Mueller Of Google Providing Webmaster Support On Christmas Again (2023 Edition)
Every year, John Mueller, Senior Search Analyst / Search Relations team lead at Google makes a significant effort to help respond to SEO-related questions on Christmas. He has done this since at least 2007, so sixteen-years and counting, and has done it again this Christmas.
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Pre-Christmas Intense Google Algorithm Ranking Volatility
No one should be surprised to hear that I am reporting on some intense Google search ranking volatility starting this Friday, December 22nd, through the weekend, with things seeming to calm down today, Sunday, December 24th. Did Google push an algorithm update or tweak before the holiday break? Who knows, but there are signals of ranking volatility either way.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 22, 2023
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Google Advertiser Verification Program To Accept DBAs
Google Ads has this advertiser verification program and now advertisers can use their DBAs ("doing business as") or trade names for that verification. Google said these names are accepted if the legal documents also state the names and in many legal documents, it does ask for DBAs to be listed.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 21, 2023
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Google Search had some weird indexing/serving issues starting earlier today...
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Google Search Having Indexing Issues This Morning?
Google Search may be having issues with indexing or serving this morning. I am seeing tons of reports from SEOs on X that Google is having indexing issues, tons. So I am posting this story to see if I can see firsthand if Google is indeed still having indexing issues.
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Google Search Christmas Decorations Are Live For 2023
Christmas is in five days and today Google has launched its Christmas decorations for Google Search. As an FYI, Google launched the Chanukah decorations on December 3, 2023 but now we are approaching Christmas...
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 20, 2023
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Google's Sullivan Collecting & Submitting Low Quality & Problematic Search Results
Over the past few months or so there has been a lot of complaints both from the SEO community and the general internet community about the quality of the Google search results. The SEO community has been very vocal on social and on this blog about the issues they see with Google search quality.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 19, 2023
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Google Image Shopping Search Results Sparkle Animation
With all the Google Shopping try on features, it looks like Google is rolling out a sparkle animation feature for the Google Image shopping search results. It shows you the product itself, symbolizing you can maybe swap out the virtual model with someone else.
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Google Analytics 4 Subproperties Now Integrates With AdSense
Google announced additional integration support between Google Analytics 4 and AdSense. Google originally added integration in June 2023 between GA4 and AdSense but now "if you're using GA4 subproperties or roll-up properties, you can establish links between those properties and AdSense accounts independently from the source properties," Google said.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 18, 2023
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 15, 2023
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Google Search Results Get It By December 24 Section (Christmas)
A couple of years ago, Google added a filter to its shopping search results for "get it by" a specific date. Now with the Google Search results getting more e-commerce-like, Google added that filter to the side bar for some queries and also is testing a new section to get the gifts by Christmas, by December 24th.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 14, 2023
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Microsoft To Bring Deep Search To Bing Chat / Copilot But It Is Way Too Slow Now
Microsoft is working to bring its new Deep Search feature to Copilot, formerly known as Bing Chat. The issue is, (1) Deep Search is only available to a limited number of searchers in Bing Search and (2) it is way too slow to bring it to a chat interface.
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Google Local Notice When Review Posting Is Turned Off
At the beginning of this year we covered the updated posting restrictions guidelines for Google Maps where Google said they can turn off posting for a particular place. Well, we are now seeing an example of that in action, where Google is testing the reviewer that posting has been turned off.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 13, 2023
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 12, 2023
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 11, 2023
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Google Search May Show Reporter Headshots As Story's Main Image
Google has confirmed it is looking into reports of Google Search showing the wrong image for the story it displays in the search results. Recently Google has been showing the headshot of the reporter, instead of showing the main article's image, for some top stories images in the search results.
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Google Adds Programmatic Support For Limited Ads With AdSense, AdMob & Ad Manager
Google sent an email to AdSense, AdMob and Ad Manager users saying they are "launching support for programmatic bidding on inventory eligible for Limited ads." Limited ads (LTD) give publishers the ability to serve ads in a limited way. Limited ads disable the collection, sharing, and use of personal data for personalization of ads.
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Google Search Results Super Volatile Days After Reviews Update Completed
The last likely Google confirmed update of the year, the November 2023 reviews update, completed last Thursday afternoon on the 7th. But days after it completed the Google search results are still super volatile and the fluctuations and chatter are heated.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 8, 2023
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Google's November 2023 reviews update is done rolling out after a whopping 29 days...
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Google Tests Bolding Local Business Name In Local Panel
Google is testing bolding the name of the business within the local panel in the search results. I was unable to replicate this but my screenshot shows my company name in normal text, while the test shows a bolded font for the company name.
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Google Product Results Showing Prices With 30 Day Low
Google now can show if a price is the lowest it has been in a 30-day period. This can show in the product listing results for your Google search results. Google will add the green font to the discounted price but also add the words "30-day low" to the result.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 7, 2023
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Google launched Gemini, its next-level AI...
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 6, 2023
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Bing launched Deep Search, also known as Search Harder, for some users...
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Google How-To Rich Results Also Returning To Search?
As a reminder, in August, Google stopped showing the How-to rich results on the mobile search results, and then in September, they did the same for desktop results. Well, they seem to be returning to the Google Search results, around the same time we saw the FAQ-rich results start showing again in Google Search.
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Google Search Console To Remove Product Results Search Appearance Filter From Performance Reports
Google is going to remove the Product results search appearance filter from both the Performance report in Search Console and from the Search Console API. This will happen in about a month, sometime in January 2024.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 5, 2023
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Google expanded its video guidelines to the video mode interface...
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 4, 2023
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Google Hanukkah Decorations Are Live For 2023
Hanukkah (aka Chanukah) starts this coming Thursday night, December 7th. Google has added its Hanukkah decorations to the Google Search results interface to celebrate. Google does this every year and I expect to see the same rollout in the coming weeks for Christmas and Kawanzaa but for now, since Chanukah is in the coming days, we have the Hanukkah decorations live at Google Search.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 1, 2023
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I am celebrating the 20th year anniversary of writing about search - well...
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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 30, 2023
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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 29, 2023
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Google's November 2023 core update is finally done rolling out...
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Google Chicago Map Pin Room With Honeycomb Ceiling
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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 28, 2023
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New Google Profile Page & Discussion Forum Structured Data With New Search Console Reports
Google has announced new structured data for discussion forum and profile page structured data on Google Search, with new markup and also new Search Console reports. Also, with this change, Google updated the Q&A forum structured data. This seems related to the new personalized experience within Google Search, the hidden gems, the follower counts and discussion and forum features.
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Google Search Console Down Again For Many
Google Search Console has been having reliability issues since yesterday, as we covered. It is currently down for many users across the world. The outage started again this morning at around 4 am ET.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 27, 2023
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Google Tests Line Separators Between Sitelinks
Over the past week or so, Google has been testing line separators between Sitelinks in the Google Search results for snippets. This feature test really gives a lot of screen real estate to those snippets and gives it a lot of space.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 24, 2023
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Google Tests New Flight Prices Rich Result?
Google may be testing a new type of rich result for flight prices. This test shows a section under the flight search snippet that contains the dates, trip details and price.
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Google Tests Shading Colors Of Favicons - Altering Your Official Favicon
Google is testing shading and adding color and depth to favicons that they display in the search result snippets. This was spotted some time ago but it seems to be more broadly being tested now, including the shading experiment.
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Google Removed The Robots FAQs Document
Earlier this week, Google removed its Robots.txt FAQ help document from its search developer documentation. When asked, John Mueller from Google replied to Alexis Rylko saying, "We update the documentation from time to time. Feel free to submit feedback if you feel something's missing. Robots.txt is definitely still a thing."
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Happy Thanksgiving: Google's History of Thanksgiving Doodle
Happy Thanksgiving everyone and to celebrate the holiday, I will not be posting news today. Don't worry, a lot of news will be posted tomorrow, including the weekly SEO video recap (subscribe!).
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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 22, 2023
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Google is testing "simple search" feature...
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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 21, 2023
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Google Tests Longer Local Justifications From Third Party Sources
Google may be testing showing longer-form justifications in the Google local results. In the example below, provided by Miriam Ellis on X, it showed a more extended description/justification provided by Yelp.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 20, 2023
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You can send your site to Google if it lost a lot of traffic in Search...
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Google Investigating Issue With Search Console Experience Report URL Declines
Google is currently investigating a likely issue or bug with the Google Search Console experience reports. The issue is that they seem to be showing a decline in the number of valid reported URLs across the core web vitals, HTTPS, AMP, mobile usability and other page experience reports.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 17, 2023
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Danny Sullivan Posts His Google Search Presentation On X
Last night, Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, shared the presentation he gave at brightonSEO online on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. The presentation covers Google Search results not being perfect, how Google update aim to improve those results, and how Google's guidance to creators needs to improve.
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Smart Google Cupcakes - Google For Education Cupcakes
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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 16, 2023
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This newsletter is a lot bigger than the average...
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Google SGE Gift Ideas, Generate Images For Apparel & Men's Virtual Try On
Google announced some new Search Generative Experience (SGE) features for shopping, including gift ideas, generating images for apparel purposes, and more virtual try-on features.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 15, 2023
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Google: Avoid Including Prices Of Flights In Your Title Tags
Google has updated its title links help documentation to say it is best to avoid including flight price information in title elements. Google said this is because flight prices rapidly change and if you show one price to a searcher and then they click over from Google to your page and it is a different price, that can lead to a bad experience.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 14, 2023
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Google Products Results With Discussion and Forum Feature
Google seems to be testing showing the Discussion and Forum feature within product listing search results. The Discussion and Forum is about a year or so old now but I've never seen it for products, that is until now.
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Microsoft Advertising Sending Faster Email Disapproval Notices
Microsoft announced that it has updated some of its existing advertising policies and with that also made the email notification process for disapproval faster and quicker.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 13, 2023
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Google News Magazine Support To Be Discontinued December 1, 2023
Google announced that it will discontinue its Google News magazine service starting on December 1, 2023. Any magazines you purchased and that are available within the Google News apps or news.google.com to your library of magazines will be removed.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 10, 2023
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Check out the weekly SEO video recap...
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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 9, 2023
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Google is now rolling out the November 2023 Reviews update...
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Google Tests Multiple Local Packs In Search Results As You Scroll
Google seems to be testing showing multiple local packs in its search results as you scroll down the page. I cannot replicate this, which makes me believe this is a limited test. But Christian Kunz was able to repeat this over and over again, showing multiple local packs come up as he scrolls through the Google search results page.
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Google Top Stories Open Access Label
Google seems to be testing a new feature for top stories named "Open Access." I am not sure what open access means, if you know, please comment below. It seems like it might be part of the Google News Showcase but I can be wrong.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 8, 2023
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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 7, 2023
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Google had some material released by the DOJ that includes the three pillars of rankings...
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New Google Ads Policy Disallows Location Assets For Closed Locations
Google has sent out an email to some advertisers using location asserts within Google Ads with "new policy requirements." In short, it says that if your location is closed, not recognized, or does not match the business ads location, then Google Ads location assets are not allowed.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 6, 2023
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Google's November 2023 core update is super super heated and it hit fast...
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Sullivan Shares Internal Documents On How Google Search Listen To SEO Feedback
On Friday, Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison, shared some internal documents showing how he complies some of the feedback from SEOs online and then prepares that feedback to share with the Google Search teams. He has done this a couple of times before, in terms of publicly showcasing how he provides feedback to the internal Google Search teams.
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AdSense for Search To Stop Serving Over Google, Ad Personalization Deprecating
Google announced late on Friday that AdSense for Search (AFS), AdSense for Shopping (AFSh), and Programmable Search Engine (ProSE) will stop serving ads over google.com and this will also mean that ad personalization will be deprecated for these products because Google cookies will no longer be available to them.
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Google Business Profiles Adds Small Business Attribute
Google added a new business attribute for small businesses to showcase they are small. You can add it under your Google Business Profile, where you edit your listing and select your attributes.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 1, 2023
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Google mobile first indexing is really done this time...
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Google: Keyword Stuffing Isn't About The Number Of Times A Word Is Repeated
While Google has a clear definition of what keyword stuffing is on its spam policies page, Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison, explained that it is not about the number of times a word is repeated on a page. Rather, it is about how the words on the page read, he explained.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 31, 2023
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Google: Old Content Doesn't Make It Unhelpful Content
Google's Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, said on X that just because content is old, it doesn't mean that content is unhelpful. He said, "Just because something is older doesn't make it unhelpful."
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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 30, 2023
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Google Again Says Schema Does Not Make Your Site Rank Better
Google once again said that adding schema or structured data markup to your pages will not result in those pages ranking better in Google Search. Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, said this on X, "using schema doesn't give you a ranking boost," adding, "Schema doesn't make you rank better." He even said that "Schema has nothing to do with rankings."
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Google Helpful Content System Uses Machine Learning To Understand If Content Is Helpful
This is just a reminder that Google uses machine learning to understand if content is helpful or not within the Google helpful content system. This is not new, we've known this for over a year, but it seems many of us keep forgetting.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 27, 2023
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We're seeing signs of another unconfirmed Google search ranking update today...
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Microsoft Officially Relaunches The Old pubCenter As New
Here is an interesting announcement from Microsoft, announcing the new launch of Microsoft pubCenter - which is actually not new, it is from 2006 and had a slow painful death. But Microsoft is bringing it back saying, "we developed Microsoft pubCenter. It's a simple way for creators and small to medium-sized publishers to earn money from their site with a code-on-page ad solution."
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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 26, 2023
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BlueArray Porsche Taycan Parked Outside BrightonSEO
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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 25, 2023
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Google is now testing stuffing ads in between the organic free search results...
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New: Google Search Supports Syntax Graph Merge
Google Search as of last week now supports syntax graph merge. This allows you to use two different forms of structured data, such as JSON-LD and Microdata, on the same page, and Google will support both.
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Google Ad Revenue Up 9.5% & Bing Ads Revenue Up 10%
Both Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising revenue were up big this past quarter, both up about 10%. Comparing it to last quarter, Google was only up 3% and Microsoft was up 8%. The previous quarters before that were much worse. So it seems like things are looking up on the ad revenue side.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 24, 2023
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Google Local Listings Show How Soon You Can Get A Doctor Appointment
Google is now showing for some urgent cares and other medical offices, how long it would take to get an appointment at that facility. This shows both in the local pack and also in the specific local listing.
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Google Search Product Overlay Nearby Store Filter
For many years now, Google Search has offered ways to find products that are in stores near your location. Now the product overlay feature within Google Search also lets you filter by nearby stores.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 23, 2023
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
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Google Ads API Version 15 Now Available
Google has released version 15 of the Google Ads API last week but I did not notice until over the weekend. The big updates include but are not limited to new recommendation types, updates to Performance Max, new lookalike segments and improved offline conversion upload diagnostics, plus so much more.
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Google "Do More With Search" Feature
Google seems to be testing a new search feature to encourage more searches from its user base. There is this new "Do more with search" box that shows other searches the user can search for.
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Google AdSense Vignettes Ads New Frequency Controls
Google AdSense this morning rolled out frequency controls for vignette ads format in Auto ads. These frequency controls let AdSense publishers decide how often vignettes are shown to their users.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 20, 2023
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 Ads Verification Form Too Long For Advertisers?
As you know, Google Ads has been requiring advertiser verification from more and more of its advertisers. Well, one advertiser posted on X saying it is too much, the length and number of questions to become verified is just too much.
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New Google AdSense Related Search For Auto Ads
Google has added a new auto ads option to AdSense named related search for auto ads. Related search for Auto ads lets publishers show their users search terms related to the page content they view.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 19, 2023
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 18, 2023
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
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Google Business Profiles Adds Disabled-Owned & Indigenous-Owned Attributes
Google has added two new attributes for businesses listed in Google Business Profiles. These attributes are identifies as disabled-owned and identifies as Indigenous-owned.
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New Google Graphical Choose Location For Search Results Overlay
Google is testing a new method to ask users to choose their location to better localize or personalize the search results presented to that searcher. This overlay says, "choose location for search results" and then offers an option for an "estimated location" or "precise location."
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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 17, 2023
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 16, 2023
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 Consolidating Local Search Photos Guidelines
Google will make the "existing Local Services Ads photos guidelines on the same page as the Local Services platform policies," the search company announced. This goes into effect on November 13, 2023.
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Google Search Set Your Food Preferences For Restaurant Results
Google Search is testing a gear setting icon on its local places results to let you set your food preferences. This setting would then show you restaurant results that better match those food preferences.
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