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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 31, 2023
John Mueller & Daniel Waisberg Biking Near Google Tel Aviv
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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 30, 2023
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Vlog #208: Jeff Ferguson On Starting His Own Digital Marketing Agency
In part one, we go through Jeff Ferguson's long history in search marketing. Here, in part two, we pick up with him starting his own agency...
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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 27, 2023
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Google Ads now supports negative keywords on the account level. SEOs trust YMYL content less if AI writes it...
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Gary Illyes: Google Search Handles marquee Tags Appropriately
Gary Illyes, from the Google Search Relations team, said on LinkedIn that Google Search handles the marquee HTML tag "appropriately." What does it mean by appropriately? That is Gary for you.
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Poll: AI-Generated YMYL Content Trusted Less By SEOs
Lily Ray ran a Twitter poll asking SEOs if they trust content in the YMYL, your money or your life, category more, less or the same if it was written by AI. The vast majority of responses said they trust AI-generated content less than human-generated content.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 26, 2023
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Google Publishes A New SEO Case Study, This One From Vimeo On Video SEO
A couple of weeks after I said I thought Google would stop publishing SEO case studies, Google just published a new one. This one is on How Vimeo improved video SEO for their customers, specifically by using the indexifembedded rule combined with noindex and adding structured data.
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Google Golf Tee Shirt By Google Designer
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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 25, 2023
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Google is being sued by the DOJ again over alleged monopolistic actions...
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Two Justifications In The Google Local Search Results
Now, Google is showing double justifications for some local results. Google's local search results has a feature to highlight and/or summarize some of the local reviews in the map pack and local search results snippet. These highlights or summarizations are known as justifications.
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Microsoft Bing Ads Revenues Up 10% - Growth Slowing...
Microsoft reported earnings last night, and in after-hours trading, it seems, for the most part, that Wall Street is happy. But if you look at the search ad revenue numbers, that department's growth continues to slow.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 24, 2023
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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 23, 2023
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There may have been a Bing Search ranking algorithm update...
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Google Ads Outages Impacting Many Advertisers
Google has confirmed outages across the Google Ads network, including Google Ads for Search, Google Ads for other surfaces and many of the Google Ads management projects, like Search Ads 360, Display and Video 360 and Campaign Manager 360.
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Google: No Preference Between Connected Structured Data In Graph Array Or Disconnected Individual Elements
Google's John Mueller was asked if there is a Google SEO preference to having your structured data connected in some graph or node array versus having them as individual elements in their own blocks on the page. John said that Google has no preference.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 20, 2023
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Google Search Console Video Indexing Report Improves Thumbnail Indexing Issues
As of January 19, 2023, Google has updated the video indexing report in Google Search Console, which now reports on thumbnail indexing issues more accurately. The result may be that you see reassignment of "Missing thumbnail" issues to more specific issue types, Google said.
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Google Search Local "Join Waitlist" Button (Not New)
The other day we reported on the newish check wait time button and now we are seeing a "join waitlist" button as well. I guess this gets you on the list to be seated at a restaurant.
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Google Search Tests Order Online Button At Top Of Snippet
Google is testing the "order online" button from the bottom of the search result snippet to the top of that snippet. I see it on the bottom, but some can see it towards the top of the snippet, above the sitelinks but under the description area.
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New Google Maps Posting Restrictions For User Generated Content (Reviews, Photos & Videos)
Google has posted a new help document for posting restrictions around user-generated content in Google Maps. This is specific to reviews, photos, and videos users may update to Google Maps. This may also include content such as ratings or Q&A topics.
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Google Explains Why The Affiliate Programs Spam Documentation Were Removed
Last October, Google revamped its Google Webmaster Guidelines into Google Search Essentials and one part of that was to consolidate the previous pages on thin content and affiliate programs into the overall documentation. Lizzi Sassman from Google explained a bit more on why this was done.
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Space Helmet Date Wall At Google Hyderabad Office
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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 19, 2023
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Google Search Drops Playable Podcast Rich Snippets
Google has dropped the playable podcast search result rich snippets. 9to5Google reported this first, and there is a bit of confusion around what exactly Google removed. Google seems to have removed the recent episodes playable rich results for podcasts, where Google would show under a specific search result the recent podcasts.
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Google Ads Rolling Out Performance Max Experiments
Google is rolling out Performance Max experiments in Google Ads today. We knew this would come and now, I think for the first time but I might be wrong, we are seeing some advertisers gain access to this.
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Microsoft Bing Tests Topics Search Bar Refinements Like Google
Microsoft Bing is testing topics refinements options in the search bar, this is similar to what Google Search launched a few months back on mobile search and has been testing on desktop search.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 18, 2023
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Google: Google Quality Updates Can Impact Crawling & Indexing
Google's John Mueller said again that its quality updates, like core updates and the others in the family, can not just impact the ranking of a page in Google Search but also how Google crawls and if Google decides to index that page.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 17, 2023
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Google Search Tests New Location Override Feature
For a long, long time, Google has given searchers a way to override the location Google Search thinks you are searching for. Often, that location was in the footer, but for the past several months Google has been showing it at the top of the search results page for some more location-aware queries.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 16, 2023
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Google Unlikely To Increase Request Indexing Quota In Search Console
Google's John Mueller said that Google Search Console's URL Inspection tool to submit a page to be crawled would probably not see the quota increase anytime soon. He said on Mastodon, "given how much junk we get submitted there, I don't see us increasing those limits."
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Google Business Profile Image Server Rejected Upload Bug
Late last week, Google Business Profiles had a bug where uploading images to your business profile would fail. This was reported first by Tim Capper on Twitter on Thursday and the issue continued in through the weekend.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 13, 2023
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Local SEOs: Check Your Photos In Your Google Maps Pin Overlay
Mike Blumenthal dropped a simple but thoughtful local SEO tip that all businesses should do some time in the near future. Just check the featured photos that Google selected to be displayed in your Google Maps pin overlay.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 12, 2023
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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 11, 2023
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Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Kicking Off Or Tail-End To Helpful Content & Link Spam Updates?
I see signals, both in terms of SEO chatter and some of the Google Search tracking tools, of more volatility in the Google Search results. The volatility is algorithm update levels and can either be a new Google search ranking algorithm update or it can be the tail-end of the ongoing December 2022 Google helpful content update and link spam updates.
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Google Business Profiles Products Price Ranges & Custom Call To Actions Going Away
Google Business Profiles will stop supporting price ranges for products and custom call to actions, starting February 15, 2023. Google will also remove any existing price ranges and all landing pages will have a "visit site" label.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 10, 2023
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Google: Traffic Is Not A Measure Of Search Quality
Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that traffic is not necessarily a quality measure. Basically, John is saying just because a certain number of pages do not get as much traffic as another set of pages, it does not mean those pages are higher or lower in quality in the eyes of Google Search.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 9, 2023
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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 6, 2023
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Google: Core Web Vitals Not A Google Discover Requirement
Do you need outstanding core web vital scores to be included in Google Discover? The answer is no, at least John Mueller of Google said "we don't have that connection documented anywhere."
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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 5, 2023
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Google Ads Remove Redundant Keywords Recommendation Now Applies Across Match Types
Google has sent out email notifications to some Google Ads advertisers about changes happening to the remove redundant keywords recommendations. In short, Google is expanding this recommendation to work across match types.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 4, 2023
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Google Drops 110 Character Limit From Article Headline Structured Data
Google has updated the article structured data help documentation by removing the 110-character limit from the headline properties. It now says, "Consider using a concise title, as long titles may be truncated on some devices."
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Google URL Inspection Tool Referring Page Can Show Nofollow Links But It's Rare Say John Mueller
Google's John Mueller said it is possible that Google Search Console's URL inspection tool can show a nofollowed link as the referring page but he also said it is rare. It does make you question if Google holds by the nofollow as a very strict hint or not but John said we are "too focused on links."
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Start & End Dates For Google Algorithm Updates Aren't Always Exact
If you've been following my coverage here on confirmed Google search algorithm updates over the years, you would see that the dates Google gives to the start of an update and, more often, the completion of an update are not always so exact.
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Google Search "Popular Next Steps" Option
Google is testing or has launched a new search refinement or expansion feature named "popular next steps." If Google thinks<<� your original query will lead to a new query in your research cycle, Google may show you this "popular next steps" option.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 3, 2023
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Google: The Helpful Content Update & Link Spam Update Still Ongoing
Welcome back from the holidays, don't worry; you didn't miss much. The December 2022 helpful content update and December 2022 link spam update are not done yet. They should be done soon, but right now, when I write this, they are not done.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 2, 2023
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I hope you all had a nice new year...
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John Mueller Of Google Helping SEOs On New Years 2023
John Mueller of Google was on the web, responding to SEO-related questions both on New Year's Eve and New Year. This has become expected from John, which might be unfair to him, but he has done this not just on Christmas but also every new years for the past 15 years or so.
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Google: Page Numbers In Titles Of Paginated Pages Does Not Help With SEO
Alan Kent from Google in the latest Google SEO office hours said that putting page numbers in your title tags for your paginated pages does not help much with SEO. He said, "including the page number in your information about a page will have little effect."
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