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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 30 2023
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Ranking Volatility Pinging Google Sitemaps Bing Index Coverage AI Search Local & PPC
This week in search, we had yet another week of heated Google search ranking volatility without a confirmed Google search ranking update. Google said it would drop the Ping endpoints for Google Sitemaps later this year. Some are seeing the new index...
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Bing Chat Share Feature Returning On July 4th
In May, Bing added a share feature to Bing Chat and then had to abruptly remove the feature in early June. Bing's Mikhail Parakhin said that the feature should start to slowly roll back out, under a new system, starting on July 4th.
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Google Ads New Brand Restrictions For Search & Brand Exclusions For Performance Max
Google Ads announced that new brand settings are rolling out for Search and Performance Max campaigns. Specifically, brand restrictions for broad match in Search campaigns and brand exclusions in Performance Max campaigns are rolling out.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 29 2023
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Yep, we are seeing yet another heated Google search ranking algorithm update that has come...
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Google Search Product Pricing Graph Over 3-Months
Google is testing showing the price fluctuations of a product in a graph over a three-month period in the search results. We saw product pricing sliders but this is on a graph to show pricing changes over that time period.
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Google Rich Testing Tools Drop Down Selector Now Shows URL Inspection Tool
Google has updated the Google Rich Results test to spell out that the test is coming from the Google URL Inspection tool. This update probably happened when added the new Google-InspectionTool useragent to the crawler list back in May.
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Microsoft: Bing Chat Slow Rollouts Are Random To Reduce Bias
Bing, and other software companies, like Google, tend to roll out new features slowly. So they might roll out a new feature first to 1% of users, then 10%, then 50% and then eventually 100% of users. This rollout is done randomly to reduce bias, Microsoft Bing's Mikhail Parakhin said on Twitter.
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Bing Search Answer Panel Adds Interactive Reaction Emojis
Bing Search lets searchers interact with some of the right bar answer panels using emojis. If you search for [barack obama] and look at the side bar, you will see the option to react to some of the answers given using emojis.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 28 2023
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Google Ads May Disapprove Ads For Using Third-Party Click Tracking
Google has posted an update that says it may disapprove some ads for using third-party click-tracking services that are not on their approved list. Google said this currently only applies if you start using these click-tracking services after the week of August 28th.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 27 2023
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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 26 2023
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Google: New Web Sites Homepages Should Get Indexed
Gary Illyes from Google on the last Search Off The Record podcast said that for brand-new websites, their homepages should be indexed without a problem. If not, then the site has a bigger issue. Plus, the Google's John, Martin and Gary spoke more about indexing.
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With A Few Days Left Are Search Marketers Ready For GA4
This coming Friday, June 30, 2023, will be the last day Google Analytics's Universal Analytics 3 collects new data. The deadline is not being pushed off and you either switch to GA4, Google Analytics 4, find some alternative analytics package or not track at all.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 23 2023
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Google's search results exploded this morning in terms of volatility but still...
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Google Issues PSA Saying 302 Redirects Are Fine
Google's John Mueller went to Twitter and Reddit to issue a PSA saying, "302 redirects are fine." Yea, we covered the 302 versus 301 topic countless times over almost 20 years here, so here is the 2023 version. 302 redirects are just fine to use, according to Google.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 22 2023
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Google Ads Automatically Created Assets For Performance Max Campaigns
Google Ads seems to be testing the Automatically created assets setting for Performance Max campaigns. And Google Ads is replacing the "Final URL expansion" setting for some accounts, as well.
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Google Site Kit Booth At WordCamp Europe Conference With Familiar Faces
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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 21 2023
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INP Core Web Vitals Report Now Live In Google Search Console
Google has just launched the new INP report within the Core Web Vitals reporting in Google Search Console. As a reminder, INP, Interaction to Next, is replacing FID, First Input Delay, in March 2024. To prepare, Google has launched a new report to show you how your site(s) are performing for that metric.
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Google Ads Brings Store Sales Reporting & Bidding To Performance Max Campaigns
Google announced that store sales reporting and bidding are now available across Performance Max Campaigns within Google Ads. This means advertisers can "measure total sales wherever customers prefer to shop and optimize their bids for in-store revenue," Google explained.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 20 2023
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Bing Chat goes a significant performance improvement...
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Bing Search Tests Larger Favicons That Animate
Microsoft is testing showing larger favicons that also animate in the Bing Search results. The favicons look a lot larger in this test, here are side by side comparisons so you can see yourself.
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Google Price Range Product Slider With Store Names
Google is now showing the product price range slider with a store name overlayed. I know the slider is not new, it shows you the price range of that product that Google tracked. But the store name overlay, might be new.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 19 2023
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Google's search result volatility is not cooling down...
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The Mysterious Appearance Of "Local Guide Program" Queries In Google Search Console
Google's Local Guide Program queries are showing up in Google Search Console across sites, always ranking number one, mostly for desktop queries, and for many landing pages.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 16 2023
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How Google Search Handles 103 Early Hints HTTP Server Response
Gary Illyes from Google posted information on how Google Search handles the 103 early hints HTTP server status response. He said, "Googlebot will ignore the 103 and wait for the subsequent response."
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UN Members At Google Pier 57 Office (On AI Topics)
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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 15 2023
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Google's New Search Quality Feedback Form
Google has released a new spam or as they call it, search quality feedback form. This form allows you to submit feedback around not just spam but paid links, malicious behavior, low quality, and other search quality issues.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 14 2023
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June 14th Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update & Fluctuations
I am seeing some early signs of another Google search ranking algorithm update, as the Google search results seem more volatile than normal and there has been an increase in SEO chatter.
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Bing Chat Tests Image Recognition & Visual Search
Microsoft is testing image recognition and visual search features in Bing Chat. This is where you can upload an image and ask Bing Chat questions around that image.
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Google Merchant Center Tests New Checkout Button
Google is sending out emails to some on Google Merchant Center asking them if they want to beta test a new call-to-action button to send searchers who are ready to buy directly to your check out page, instead of the product page.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 13 2023
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Beta Google Ads Broad Match Keywords Campaign Setting To Drop Match Types
Google Ads seems to have launched a beta campaign setting named "broad match keywords." It seems this setting removes the match types, specifically phrase and exact match keywords and converts them into broad match.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 12, 2023
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The SEO Conch House Story: Scraped Amazon Content That Ranked Incredibly In Google Search
Matt Diggity interviewed the two of the six people who ran Conch-House.com, site that completely dominated the Google search results for a couple of months. In short, they posted 6,000 posts per day by scrapping review content from Amazon. The site grew to 6 million users and $19,000 per day within one month but the site was penalized by Google and no longer ranks now.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 9, 2023
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Google Ads Industry Wide Blocks For Trademarks Going Away July 24
Google is updated its Google Ads trademark policies to do away with the ability to have industry-wide blocks for trademarked terms. Instead, you will need to do this on the specific advertiser level.
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Google Checks To See If XML Sitemaps Change Before Reprocessing
Google's Gary Illyes confirmed that Google does indeed check to see if an XML sitemap has a change in it before reprocessing the XML sitemap file.
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Peter The Greeter & Android Mascot Together At Google
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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 8, 2023
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Google Ads API version 14 is out...
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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 7, 2023
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Bing Search Tests Short Search Menu With Fewer Options
Microsoft Bing Search is testing showing fewer options in the search bar menu below the search box. We saw this with Bing Image search before and now we are seeing this with Bing web search.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 6, 2023
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Seems like there is a Google search ranking algorithm update going on now, it's not confirmed by Google...
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Google Ads Advertiser Console Currently Down
The Google Ads interface and advertising console is currently down. It has been down for the past 40 minutes or so, going down a bit after 9am ET.
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Google View In 3D Product Results With QR Code To View On Mobile
The other day we reported that Google was showing 3D product images not just on mobile search but on desktop. Now, Google is testing showing a QR code that the searcher can scan with their mobile phone so they can quickly see the product in 3D, since that is hard to do on desktop devices.
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Google Search Local Library Book Availability
Google Search can now show you both e-book and physical hardcover book availability at a library near you. In 2017, Google offered this feature for e-books but now it seems available for physical books as well, although, I am not sure how new this is.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 5, 2023
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Bing Chat increased its limits...
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Bing Chat Increased Limits, Added More Travel Visuals & Expanded Bing Image Creator
Bing Chat now can handle 30 chat turns per conversation, up from 20, and a total of 300 chats per day. Also, the travel results can be more visual and Bing Image Creator works in all chat modes, not just "creative."
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Looking Bad Near Bad Looking Android Statue (Bad As In Good)
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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 2, 2023
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Google may be rolling out a new featured snippet style...
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Google Rolling Out Multiple Featured Snippets On Desktop Search
Google Search is now rolling out more featured snippets, this is not the new perspectives that it said would be coming at its Google I/O event, despite what I wrote in the original story. It is basically where Google shows more than one featured snippet, often two or three.
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Google Search Generative Experience Results Are Not Really Personalized
Google's all-new search engine, the Search Generative Experience, which began to rollout for some, is really not more personalized than what you get from Google's traditional search results. Google is currently not offering a more personalized search result set or AI generative answer based on who you are.
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Microsoft: Bing Chat To Work On All Browsers Soon
Microsoft will bring Bing Chat to all browsers and not force you to use Microsoft Edge to use Bing Chat, in the near future. When exactly, we are not sure, but Bing's CEO, Mikhail Parakhin, has been saying that on Twitter for numerous weeks now.
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Google Bard Can Now Provide More Precise Local Results
Google released an update to Google Bard last night that allows you to share your precise location with Bard for it to give you more accurate and relevant local results.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 1, 2023
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Google Search Adds More Detailed Car Comparison Tools
Google keeps expanding its car search features, threatening the Edmunds and car websites out there. Here you can see Google showing you car comparison tools and charts to help you pick the best car for your needs.
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