Daily Search Forum Recap: July 31, 2023

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Google's Revised Site Name Questions & Resources Thread

With the updates to Site names last week, Google decided to post a revised set of questions, FAQs, resources, support and timelines on the whole Google Search site name bit in the Google Webmaster Help forums.

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Bing Chat New Infrastructure Upgrade Taking Longer Than Expected - 30% Out

Microsoft is working hard to upgrade the Bing Chat infrastructure. This will not only make Bing Chat faster and more reliable but also enable features like third-party plugins and nosearch. But this upgrade is taking longer than expected, according to Bing's CEO, Mikhail Parakhin.

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Can You Spot The Ad Label On These Microsoft Bing Search Ads?

Here are two screenshots of search ads in the Bing Search results. Let me know how long it takes you to find the "ad" label on these ads. It took me a while, like a good 20-30 seconds to find the ad label on these ads.

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Google Search Tests Bold & Underlined Title Links For Snippets & Triangle About This Result Icon

Google seems to be testing bolding and underlining the title links in the search results snippets in the mobile search interface. Google is also testing a triangular format for the three dots icon used for the about this result feature.

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Google Drops Google News Sitemap Validation & Errors Help Documents

Google has removed a couple of the Google News sitemaps help documentation. I should note, it seems these were removed a very long time ago, but the links to those documents still exist - but return a 404, page not found error.

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Googlers Baking Cookies At The GooglePlex

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 28, 2023

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Google says AI-generated reviews are spam according to Merchant Center policies...

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Google Officially Rolling Out New Search Settings Interface

Ashwarya, Google Search Community Manager, posted that Google Search will soon roll out "a new experience to make access to key items easier on the Search Results Page on the web." In short, it is a new way to access Google Search Settings on desktop and mobile.

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Google Merchant Center Next Wants You To Add Your Customer Support Details

Google wants you to add your customer support details to Google Merchant Center Next. Google said, "Shoppers are often dissatisfied when they can't easily find customer support and returns related information when they're shopping online." So if you add this information, it will improve your shoppers experience.

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Google Brazil Seesaw

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 27, 2023

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I am now seeing a huge spike in SEO chatter specific to a Google algorithm ranking update, but some, not all...

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Outdoor Hammock At Google Brazil

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 26, 2023

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Google and Microsoft announced financial earnings, both showed a lift in ad revenues...

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Google Ads Performance Max Upgrade Tool Now Available For Dynamic Search Ads (DSA)

Google announced that the self-upgrade tool for "upgrading" your Google Ads to Performance Max campaigns is now available for Dynamic Search Ads (DSA) campaigns and Google Display campaigns.

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Google Business Profiles Appointment Link Moved To Booking Section

Google has moved the way to add an appointment link in your Google Business Profile. It use to be within the edit profile section and is now available in the main "Booking" section.

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John Mueller: Programmatic SEO Often A Fancy Banner For Spam

Google's John Mueller had another one-liner - this one was posted on Twitter and it reads, "programmatic SEO is often a fancy banner for spam."

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Google Ad Revenue Up 3.3% & Bing Ads Revenue Up 8%

Both Google (Alphabet) and Bing (Microsoft) reported earnings last night and both showed that their ad revenues grew. Google Ad revenue was up 3.3%, with overall revenue up 7%. Microsoft Advertising revenue was up 8% with overall revenue up 8% as well.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 25, 2023

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Google said site names in the title tag are fine...

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Google: Spammy Link Networks Share Vulnerable Sources With Each Other

Google's John Mueller said that when a link spammer (or I guess any time of spammer) find a vulnerability on a website, they might share that vulnerability with their network of spammers. So it is important that you close any vulnerabilities on your site not just from a specific spammer but from future spammers who may have been told about your site.

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Google Signage: Colored Pieces Of Wood

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 24, 2023

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Google Hotel Search Results Comparison Sites Carousel & Filter

Google seems to be testing a new hotel search feature that lets you compare sites using a carousel and a new search filter. The carousel shows you comparable hotels that you can click to see more, bringing up a "compare sites" filter to browse more hotel options.

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Google Business Profiles Automated FAQs Feature

Google Business Profiles seems to be rolling out a new FAQ feature where Google will automatically create FAQs based on your Google Business Profile details and your website.

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Google Merchant Center Collections - Group Products Together

Google Merchant Center is rolling out a new feature named "collections." Collections let you group up to 100 products together in the same collection. Google said collections, "Collections allow you to associate products and other creative assets with one another. You can combine images, videos, and text to create richer experiences for your customers."

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Google's John Mueller Mail An SEO $3.50

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 21, 2023

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Google Ads Editor released a minor release, version 2.4.1. Bing Chat will remain free...

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Google Clarifies URL Structure Guidelines With Supported Characters

Google has updated its URL structure guidelines to specify what characters Google Search supports in URLs.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 20, 2023

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Mikhail Parakhin Bing Conference Room Candies

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 19, 2023

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Google Search Central Live Indonesia

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 18, 2023

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Just when you thought the ranking tools couldn't get any hotter, today...

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Google Search Tests Boxed-In Favicon Design

Google Search is testing boxed-in favicons for snippets. That is, instead of the favicon as is, Google is placing them in a square box.

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Google's John Mueller On Keyword Research For SEO

Google's John Mueller was asked if keyword research helps SEO. John immediately replied, "no," but then explained why he said no. It is not the task keyword research that helps with SEO, but understanding what you are writing about and why that kind of helps.

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Google: Making Up Fake Online Profiles Is Awkward & Cheap; You Don't Need Multiple Personas

Google's John Mueller seemed to get annoyed the other day around people faking who they are with fake personas. He posted a PSA, public service announcement, on Twitter Monday saying, "PSA making up fake people for your review site is awkward, even with fake Linkedin profiles. Copying YT reviews from others together to make your own is cheap. Submitting it as a ranking question to the office hours, uhm, what do you want us to say?"

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Google News Suggested For You - To Find News Sources

Google News seems to be testing a new section in the "for you" section named "Suggested for you." This section shows you news sources that you can follow within Google News.

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Google Pinball Arcade Games In Irvine Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 17, 2023

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This past weekend was more heated than ever in terms of the Google search results volatility...

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Skelton Sitting In Google Kirkland Cafe

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Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update & Volatility Explodes This Weekend

I often post about Google ranking volatility and search ranking algorithm updates but I rarely post about them on a weekend. But I just had to this Sunday morning; the tools are literally all reporting massive and explosive volatility this weekend and the SEO chatter is also very high.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 14, 2023

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Google Search Practice Speaking Feature For Specific Countries

Google Search seems to be testing a new feature to help searchers learn to speak in English (and maybe other languages). It is called Practice Speaking and can be triggered in some countries, such as India.

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Google Tire

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 13, 2023

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Google's search results are super-heated again...

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Google Search To Release New Improvements To Site Names

Google is going to release its second batch up improvements for Site names in the search results "in the near future," Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison said.

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Poll Shows We're Using Google Search Generative Experience Less Often

The new Google Search Generative Experience started to roll out to some users in late May but we are already seeing a decline in usage for these generative AI search features.

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Google Bard Gains New Features & Available To More Users

Just when updates to Google Bard were getting stale, Google announced a boatload of new things for its generative AI tool, Bard. In short, Google added several new features to Bard and expanded access to Bard to "most of the world" and many languages.

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Google Search Tests Snippets With Translation Drop Downs

Google is testing translating search results snippets with a "Translated by Google" drop-down feature under that specific search result snippet. It shows you that Google can translate the result from one language to another if you click to expand the feature.

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Earthy Google Lobby Area In Bay View Campus

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 12, 2023

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Google Search Explore Section Gains Ads

Google's explore section, which we first found a year ago and is now live for all, now seems to be showing Google Ads or sponsored listings. I have not seen ads in the Explore section before, maybe I missed it, but now they are showing for some people.

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YouTube Shopping Cart At Google's Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 11, 2023

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Google has a big indexing bug with Google News...

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Google Ads Circumventing Systems Policy Update

Google Ads will be updating its generic Circumventing Systems policy this month. The change will "clarify that the policy prohibits repeated and simultaneous policy violations across any of your accounts, including using two or more accounts to post ads that violate any Google Ads policy," Google posted.

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Real Google Links

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 8 2023

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Google Details SEO Guidance For Content Syndication Partners

Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison, posted a Twitter thread, with slides from a presentation he prepared for an AOP event in London back in May around SEO and Google guidance for content syndication partners.

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Google: Our Core SEO Advice Has Not Changed In Two Decades

Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison, posted that Google's core advice around how to rank well in Google Search has not changed in two decades. Google showed a screenshot of its advice from 2002 where it wrote, "Make pages for users, not for search engines."

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Google Business Profiles Drops Call Tracking Features

Google has removed the call tracking feature from Google Business Profiles. Supposedly this was a very buggy feature that would not work well and sometimes send calls to the wrong number.

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Google Search Console Notifying About INP Core Web Vitals Issues

Google began to send out email notifications about the new INP, Interaction to Next, core web vitals report recently. I believe Google started to send them out shortly after the report went live in Search Console.

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Google Cloud Le-Go Event

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 7 2023

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Google's search results are on fire, but yet...

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Google To Work On Complementary Robots.txt Protocols For AI & More

Google announced last night that it is looking to develop a complementary protocol to the 30-year-old robots.txt protocol. This is because of all the new generative AI technologies Google and other companies are releasing.

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Bing Tests Search Result Listing Branded Side Labels

Bing is now testing showing branded side labels next to each search result listing. We saw earlier more basic side labels and before that branded side bars for some search queries. I am also seeing favicons on the side of the snippets. Bing is always very busy testing these things.

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Google Ireland Dance Class On International Music Day

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 6 2023

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Google: It Doesn't Matter If You Use Blog Folders For URLs & We're Not Wrong

Google's John Mueller said it doesn't matter either way if you put your blog posts on a subfolder of /blog or just on the root directory of the site, without the /blog.

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Google Orchestra Gets Guinness World Records

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 5 2023

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Bing Chat To Allow You Not To Search The Web (No-Search)

Bing Chat will be adding a feature to tell it not to search the web for an answer. Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing Search at Microsoft, said on Twitter, "#nosearch is coming" when asked if Bing Chat can exclude web search results from the answers.

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Google's John Mueller: No Ranking Factor Compensates For Missing Relevance

Google's John Mueller has another good one-liner about SEO and Google ranking. He said on Mastodon, "No ranking factor compensates missing relevance, or missing user interest."

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Google Bard Gets On Jeopardy TV Show

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 3 2023

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Google Search Generative Experience Shows Local Store Inventory

Did you know that the new Google Search Generative Experience that launched to us a month ago shows nearby stores that have products in stock directly in the generative AI answer. This might not be new, but based on my early tests, I don't believe I've seen Google SGE show "Stores," and I definitely didn't cover that they did.

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NYC Mayor Eric Adams At Google

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