Daily Search Forum Recap: March 31, 2023

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Google is testing a "products gaining attention" carousel in search. Google Business Profiles lets you copy menus...

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Google Ads Pushes Government Documents and Official Services Policy To May 24, 2023

Google has extended the Google Ads Government documents and official services policy for several weeks, from March 31, 2023, to May 24, 2023. This was previously announced in late January, and we covered it, but now Google made two changes to that announcement.

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Google Business Profiles Let's You Copy A Menu

Google Business Profiles seems to allow some restaurants to copy a menu that it thinks it pulled for that restaurant from another source and use that copied menu to start to build your own menu in Google Business Profiles.

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Here Is Why John Mueller No Longer Recommends Verifying All Google Search Console Property Types

Google's John Mueller is no longer recommending you verify all the variations of your domain with Google Search Console. Instead, he said, keep it simple and verify using domain verification.

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Google Sphere At New GooglePlex

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 30, 2023

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Eyes Android For Google

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 29, 2023

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Google has finished rolling out the big broad core update for March 2023, it was a big one...

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Google Search Console Bulk Data Export Now Supports Multiple Properties

Several weeks ago, Google enabled the ability to export your Google Search Console data in bulk, automatically, to Google's BigQuery. Now, Google announced that you can do this across multiple properties in Google Search Console, into a single Google Cloud project.

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Hand Rolled Ice Cream At Google Dublin

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 28, 2023

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Google Barbers At Dublin Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 27, 2023

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Local Ranking Study For 2023 From Whitespark

The folks over at Whitespark has published there 2023 local ranking factors study, where they asked dozens of local SEO experts to rank what they think are the most important ranking signals for local pack and organic local search rankings.

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Google Bull

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 24, 2023

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Non-Supported Rel Link Attributes Do Nothing In Google Search

The other day, John Mueller of Google tweeted something true but sarcastic and it seems some took it the wrong way. He said In case you're curious, the rel=dofollow works on links. The thing is, it could have been any rel attribute, such as rel=cheese and it would be treated the same as rel=dofollow, Google would ignore the attribute.

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Google Planet Mars Office Design

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 23, 2023

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Microsoft's CEO of Bing said Google Bard is pretty far behind Bing Chat...

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Aerial View Of The Google Kirkland Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 22, 2023

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Google has started to roll out Bard, its AI chat feature...

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Google: URLs Excluded By Robots.txt Aren't Removed Until URLs Are Individually Reprocessed

Google's John Mueller posted a clarification on how and when Google processes the removal requests, or exclusion requests, you make in your robots.txt. The action is not taken when Google discovers the change in your robots.txt, but rather after first the robots.txt is processed and then the specific URLs that are impacted are individually reprocessed by Google Search.

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Google Cow

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 21, 2023

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Bing Chat is now appearing in the Bing Search answers box section...

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Bing Chat Answers Now In Bing Search Results

If you do some queries in Bing Search, you may get the Bing Chat box and a brief answer from Bing Chat at the top. We knew this was coming, Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Microsoft Bing said it would a week or so ago and now it seems to be here.

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Google Futuristic Flower Pots

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 20, 2023

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Vlog #215: Sam Michelson On Google Algorithm Updates With Reputation Management

In part one, we spoke about who Sam Michelson is and his business development techniques. In part two, we dove into CRM software and how they use it, including looking at a new piece of software for partner management...

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Google Search Explore Highlighting Snippet Text In Blues & Browns

Google is now testing highlighting snippet text in the Google Explore feature in light blue, darker blue, and a brownish color. After months of testing, Google launched the featured snippet text highlight feature earlier this month. Now, it seems Google is trying it out in the Google Explore feature.

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Microsoft: No Site Blacklist For Bing Chat Sidebar

The topic of blacklists and whitelists for Bing and Google are not new. But now we have chat bots and AI features and Mikhail Parakhin was asked if there is a blacklist for some sites with the Bing Chat sidebar feature in the Edge browser. Mikhail Parakhin said no, "not really" he said.

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International Women's Day At Google With Google Board

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 17, 2023

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Bing laid out when to use each mode of Bing Chat...

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Google Tests Search & Local Snippet Result Blend

Google may be testing a new search result snippet that blends a typical search result snippet with a local snippet result. This one has the favicon, sitename, URL, title and image but it removed the description portion and replaced it with local features, like map, directions, call and hours.

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Duane Forrester Acquires New Bing Mug From Fabrice Canel

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 16, 2023

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Google's March 2023 core update started to roll out yesterday...

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Microsoft Advertising Broad Match Modifier Now Use Broad Match Instead Of Phrase Match On Bing

Microsoft Advertising's broad match modifier keywords are now being served as broad match keywords instead of phrase match on Bing Search. This is effective as of yesterday, March 15, 2023.

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2006: Googlebots Playing Soccer At The GooglePlex

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 15, 2023

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Microsoft Bing has been using GPT-4 for several weeks now...

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Google Local Listing "Similar To" Showing Similar Restaurants

Google may show similar businesses or restaurants in the local business listing of a competing business or restaurant. This "similar to" section may show up based on your previous search or visit history.

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Google Brazil G Logo Sign Is Hypnotic

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 14, 2023

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YouTube Home Page Not Ranking Normally In Google Search

When you search for [youtube] in Google Search, currently, the YouTube home page is not ranking. You get Wikipedia, the YouTube Android app on Google Play, the iOS app on Apple.com, the YouTube blog and others but not youtube.com.

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Berthier Ribeiro-Neto Keynote At Google Search Central Live Brazil

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 13, 2023

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Google: Less Common Languages Aren't Considered Low Quality Content

Google's John Mueller said lesser-used or known languages published on the web are not considered low-quality content just because they are lesser known. He said on Mastodon "good content is good content" no matter what language it is written in.

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Google Business Profile Verification Steps Asking For Better Business Bureau Link

Google, during some of the verification workflow with your Google Business Profile may ask for your BBB, Better Business Bureau, listing page. Google is asking to provide a link to your company information the Better Business Bureau.

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Bing Search Featured Answers Might Be Replaced By Bing Chat Answers

Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Microsoft Bing, said on Twitter that Bing may replace the top answers, featured, and knowledge answers they use today on Bing Search with the Bing Chat answers. "Yep, they use old technology and crowdsourcing, we will replace them ASAP," Mikhail wrote on Twitter.

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YouTube Movie Director Clapper Boards At Google Madrid

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 10, 2023

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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Feb Product Review Update Done, New Google Desktop Search Design, Discover & Helpful Content Update, Bard & Bing Chat And More�

It's time for the SEO video recap; in this episode, I talk about how the February 2023 Google product reviews update finished rolling out on March 7th. I spoke about more flutters we saw this...

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Google's Cherry, Lizzi and Daniel Holding Crawley

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 9, 2023

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Google Trends launched a new design with links to publishers. Bing Chat can show answer cards...

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Google Sitename, Favicon & Sponsored Label Live On Desktop (Not Just Mobile)

Google has made the sitename, favicon and sponsored label live on all desktop searches, like it did with mobile searches last October. To be clear, we saw google testing this on desktop in November and gradually increasing the test to more and more searchers but as of yesterday, it is now fully live on desktop too.

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Google: Page Size Is Not A Ranking Factor

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter, "Page size is not a ranking factor." Meaning Google does not have anything specific signal that says page sizes of X to Y get a ranking boost or decline.

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Google Baby Shark Band - Cute

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 8, 2023

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Google Local Service Ads Gains More Service Types

Google announced yesterday that Google Local Service Ads now supports 70 service types across five new categories. The categories include education, people care, pet care, wellness and health care.

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Google Ads Performance Max For Travel Goals Available Globally Soon

Google Ads announced that Performance Max for travel goals will be available globally over the next few weeks. Performance Max for travel goals helps hotels create ads in multiple formats and in one campaign reach more travelers across Google properties.

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Bing Chat Showing Unique Referrer In Edge Sidebar For Analytics

We all want to see how much traffic the new Bing Chat feature will send us and we know Bing Webmaster Tools will eventually add it. But how about analytics? Well, there are signs Bing Chat is adding some tracking variables for analytics software.

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Another Google Mailbox Wall

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 7, 2023

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Googley Sofa

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 6, 2023

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Vlog #213: Sam Michelson On Pricing Your Digital Marketing Services

In part one, we spoke about who Sam Michelson is and his business development techniques. In part two, we dove into CRM software and how they use it, including looking at a new piece of software for partner management...

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Google Blue Highlights In Featured Snippets Live

After many months of testing, Google has launched the highlights in the featured snippets within the Google search results. Google seems to have gone with the blue highlights, not the yellow, as we previously reported on both styles.

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Another Google Fire Pit

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 3, 2023

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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Product Reviews Volatility, Bing AI Chat Updates, Google Bard & AI, Google Ads and More

This week we saw a lot more volatility from the Google Product reviews update, one last weekend and the other around March 1st. I also posted the big Google webmaster report for March 2023. Bing AI chat now lets you set the tone of the responses...

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Google On Moving Domain To Temporary Domain & Then Back To Original Domain

An SEO is in a situation where a site needs to move from www.domain.com to new.domain.com and then a few months later back to www.domain.com. John Mueller of Google was asked if they should use 302 redirects but John said, no, use 301 redirects.

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Google Ads Testing New Design To Improve Advertiser Workflow

Google announced it is testing a new design to help improve the workflow of advertisers in the Google Ads console. Google said it is "testing new designs to improve how the product is organized and make things easier to find'"while continuing to provide the same tools and solutions you rely on to grow your business."

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Google: You Don't Hoard Anything By Nofollowing Links (It's An SEO Myth)

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that it is an SEO myth to say you can use the nofollow attribute on links to hoard your links. He said, "You don't hoard anything when you make links nofollow." "It's a common SEO myth," he added.

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Bing Tests Site Favicon On Right Of Search Result Snippet

Microsoft Bing is testing placing a site's favicon on the right side of the search result title's snippet. We are accustomed to seeing it on the left for Google search results, we even saw Bing testing it on the left on mouse cursor hover over, but here it is being tested on the right.

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Google Local Posts Updates & Test Interfaces

Google is testing a few interfaces for the Google Posts and updates in the local interfaces. One is to overlay the Google updates in the images for the business listing and the other is to show a "more posts" button in the Google Posts overlay in Google Search.

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Food Trucks At The GooglePlex

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 2, 2023

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I posted the big Google webmaster report...

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March 2023 Google Webmaster Report

Here is the big Google webmaster report for March 2023, where I cover all the most important things that happened with Google search over the past month. The highlights include the Google product reviews update and a few unconfirmed updates. Of course, the Google Bard tease and AI content guidelines for Google Search, plus much more.

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Google: We Treat Hashtags As Words In Content

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter, "when it comes to web pages in Google Search, hashtags are just words, they have no special meaning or effect." So if you are big into hashtagging everything, Google will consume it as just content on the page.

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Google On lastmod Tag In XML Sitemap: Update The Date If Your Providing Something New

Google's John Mueller spoke a bit more about when you should update the date in the lastmod tag in the XML sitemap file. He said on Twitter if you are "providing something new for search engines that you'd like reflected in search," then update the date, if not, then don't.

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Google Ads Policy Changes For Malicious Software, Compromised Sites & Unwanted Software

Google Ads is updating its Malicious or unwanted software policy on May 9, 2023. The policy will be split into three policies, Malicious software, Compromised sites, and Unwanted software.

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G Bike Parking Spot At The GooglePlex

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 1, 2023

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Bing Summarized From Sources & The Web Answer Box

Microsoft Bing seems to be incorporating more of its Chat AI features into answer boxes in the main search results. Bing is testing a "summarized" box that gives you summary answers from X sources and the web.

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Google Search "People Also Ask" Showing Less Often

Both Semrush and RankRanger are reporting several point drops in the percentage of time a people also ask box shows up in the Google search results. The drop started on Friday, February 24th, a few days after the rollout of the February 2023 product reviews update.

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Google / YouTube Pottery

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