Daily Search Forum Recap: August 31, 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.

Google Search Generative Experience now really launched links in its AI-powered answers...

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Google Building Across From Another Google Building

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 30, 2023

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Google Search Snippet "Mentioned In" Carousel Feature

Google seems to be testing a new Google Search snippet carousel titled "mentioned in." Under the main search result snippet, you can expand a new section called "mentioned in" that loads a carousel of snippets that show you what other websites this website is mentioned in.

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Google: If A Page Is Indexed Then It Was Rendered By Google (Even Refreshes)

Martin Splitt from the Google Search Relations team said on Twitter that if a page is indexed that means it was rendered. He added that page refreshes are also fully rendered by Google when indexed.

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Google Band Music Rooms

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 29, 2023

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Bing: We Release Search Features Globally (We Don't Discriminate)

Bing's CEO, Mikhail Parakhin, said that Bing does not release some features slower or delayed in some countries. He said they release "All countries at the same time," adding that they "don't discriminate."

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Google Fuel Pump

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 28, 2023

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The Google August 2023 core update seemed to cause some big movement on some sites around Friday, August 25th...

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Google Search Generative Experience Local Results Gain More Link Cards

The new Google Search Generative Experience now shows more links and link cards in the local results interface for some users. The link cards show below the listing and also at the top right of the map interface in the SGE interface on both desktop and mobile.

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Google: Word Location In URLs Does Not Matter For SEO

Google's John Mueller was asked if it matters SEO-wise or search ranking-wise if you place /services/ before /location/ in your URL structure or the other way. John said when it comes to SEO, it really does not matter.

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Screenshots Of Google Search Console News Showcase Filters & Reports

A while ago we reported that Google Search Console will gain specific reports for Google News Showcase and it now seems Google is testing this in the wild. Clara Soteras shared some screenshots of these reports on Twitter and she shared an email and additional screenshots with me directly that I can post here.

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Bing Logo In Beach Sand From Flip Flops

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 25, 2023

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Google Ads Advertiser Console Recent Data Unaccessible, Google Says

Google Ads posted an issue where the Google Ads advertiser console may not be showing recent data. Google wrote yesterday, "The affected users are able to access Google Ads, but may not have access to the most recent data."

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New Google Maps User-Generated Content Appeals Form

At the beginning of this year, Google Maps posted a document with restrictions around user-generated content in Google Maps. Now, Google has created a new appeal process for when Google's enforcements for those user-generated content posts and reviews are a mistake.

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Super Fancy Google Zurich Room

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 24, 2023

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Googlers spoke, "off the record...

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Bing Search Tests Snippet Tags

Bing Search is now testing search result snippet tags and labels within the search snippets. This is something Google has been testing on and off for years.

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Google Jeweled Signage At Bay View Campus

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 23, 2023

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Google Surveying Searchers If SGE Is More Helpful Than Traditional Search

Google is asking searchers to compare the traditional search results to the Search Generative Experience search results. Google is asking searchers to pick which results are more helpful for the query.

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Bing Free Sydney T-Shirts & Bag Screen Printing

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 22, 2023

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Google Ads PMax Brand Safety Controls & Reporting Clarifications

Google's Ad Liaison, Ginny Marvin, posted a X/Twitter thread clarifying some of the confusion about brand safety controls & reporting supported in PMax, Performance Max campaigns.

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2023 Google NYC Police Style Scooter Rack

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 21, 2023

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There may have been a new unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update this weekend...

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Google NYC Massage Chair

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 18, 2023

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Google SGE has dropped showing citations and links in the AI-generated answers...

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Google Tests Wider Larger Image Thumbnails In Search Result Snippets

Google is testing wider and larger image thumbnails on snippets in the desktop search results interface. The images look about twice as wide, maybe even more, the the normal image thumbnails you'd see Google display in the desktop search results.

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Google Blow Up Air Chair

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 17, 2023

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Android Head Art At Google NYC

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 16, 2023

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Add Social Media Links To Your Google Business Profiles

Google seems to now support adding social media links to your Google Business Profiles. You can add your Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, TikTok, X (formerly known as Twitter), YouTube and other social links to your business profile.

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Microsoft Advertising Relaxes Advertiser Identity Verification

In June, we reported that Microsoft Advertising would require advertiser identity verification. Well, Microsoft posted an update relaxing those requirements in a big way.

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Moz Google Algorithm Temperature Dress At Mozcon

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 15, 2023

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Google: If You're Using AI To Write Your Content, It's Going To Be Rehashed From Other Sites

Google's John Mueller had a nice one-liner on Reddit again, this one he said "By definition (I'm simplifying), if you're using AI to write your content, it's going to be rehashed from other sites."

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Google Ads Beta AI Generated Help Guide

Google Ads is testing a new AI-generative solution for help guides and answers. Google is inviting some advertisers "to try AI-generated answers in help guide," it emailed some advertisers.

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Inside View Of The Colorful Google Glass Structure

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 14, 2023

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Google Ads Shopping Campaigns Enhanced CPC Deprecation

Google Ads is deprecating Shopping campaigns using Enhanced CPC starting one early October 2023. Google said any Shopping campaigns using Enhanced CPC will behave as if they are using Manual CPC bidding when deprecated.

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Google Chicago Whisky Fulton Palooza Event

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 11, 2023

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Google Tests Local Service Ads List View

Google is testing showing two local service ads in a list view, a change from it showing three local service ads in a carousel format. Google actually switched to three LSAs a year or so ago, up from two, and is now back to testing two.

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Google Tests Colored +Topics Search Bar Refinements

Google is testing using colors for the +topic search bar refinements, those bubble buttons you sometimes get under this search bar in Google Search. I am seeing normal white buttons, then grey, blue and green, but I am sure there are more.

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iJustine With Google's Peter The Greeter

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 10, 2023

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Google Business Profiles Adds "Fix Photo That Doesn't Show" To Appeal Form

Google has added a new option in the Google Business Profile appeal for "Fix photo that doesn't show." This means you can submit a support request for when you know a photo is not showing up on your Google Business Profile and you want it to.

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Google Local Service Ads Photo Guidelines Now Faster Reviews & More Creative

Google is now saying that its new Local Service Ads guidelines are faster for reviews and also more flexible by allowing more creative images. What that really means, well, time will tell, but that is what Google is emailing local advertisers.

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Android Painter Statue

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 9, 2023

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Google will show fewer HowTo and FAQ rich results in search going forward...

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Google Ads Gains New Ads & Reporting Insights For Upcoming Holidays

Google announced several new features for the upcoming holiday season; yea, it is coming... These features include Customer Acquisition with High Value optimization, local ad changes, new product reporting, and more visibility for your Google shipping ads.

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Google Jeep Buggy

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 8, 2023

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Google: You Don't Need A Niche Site To Rank On A Topic

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter, "You don't need to have a niche site in order to rank in Google; in fact, sometimes that's a good way not to rank." He explained that "A page doesn't have to be on a site that's "related to the niche" in order to be useful & helpful."

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Google Search Major League Baseball "Recent Featured Highlights"

Google has a new search feature titled "recent featured highlights" for Major League Baseball players. It showcases stats for recent games, short video clips and more.

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Google Carnival Sign

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 7, 2023

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OpenAI's ChatGPT New Web Crawler - GPTBot

OpenAI, the folks behind ChatGPT, have published information on its web crawler named GPTBot. You can now see if OpenAI is crawling your site, how much so, and you can disallow access to all or part of your site with the robots.txt protocol.

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Google Ads Releases New Responsive Search Ads Guide (PDF)

Google has released a new Google Ads PDF guide for RSAs, responsive search ads. The new guide is a 9-page PDF document that can be downloaded here.

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Google Metal Stairs

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 4, 2023

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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google SGE Gains Links & Videos, Search Console Not Tracking SGE, Business Profiles AI, Deceptive Bing Ads & More

This week we covered a possible Google algorithm updater yesterday and today. We also covered how the new Google Search Generative Experience now can show both links to sources and videos in the answer snapshots. Google SGE also has these new 'from Google' cards in the answers...

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Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update - August 3-4 (Unconfirmed)

It has been a full 9 days since I last reported about a Google Search ranking algorithm update and now I am seeing signs of another one starting yesterday, August 3rd through today, August 4th.

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Finally: Bing Chat Works On Chrome, Firefox and Other Browsers

This morning Bing Chat started to work across non-Edge browsers. That means, if you are logged into Bing, you can use Bing Chat on Chrome and Firefox and likely other browsers.

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LEGO Dinosaur Enclosed In Podium Casing At Google Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 3, 2023

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Google Ads Outages Impacting Majority Of Advertisers

Google just confirmed an issue with Google Ads that has been impacting advertisers all day. Advertisers are getting notices that read "Google Ads can't complete your request right now. Please reload this page to try again."

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August 2023 Google Webmaster Report

Buckle up - it was one insane month of changes that all SEOs who care about Google need to catch up on. We had very unstable and heated Google search results, Google is testing links in AI-answers in SGE, the Search Console links report is broken and Google News had an indexing bug for three full weeks.

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Google Search Generative Experience AI-Generated Answers Gain Videos

Google is also adding videos to its Search Generative Experience AI-generated answer section. So now when Google thinks a video is helpful to answer the question, Google may embed a playable video directly in the answer.

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Google Search Console Performance Reporting Not Tracking Search Generative Experience Yet

With the new Google Search Generative Experience, we are all hopeful that Google will give us reporting and filtering in Search Console. This way, we can track how well our sites are performing in SGE vs normal Google Search. But it seems like Search Console is not reporting on SGE at all.

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Google's John Mueller On When To Worry About Keyword Stuffing

Ever wonder at what point you need to worry that there are too many of the same keywords on the page? Well, John Mueller from Google said it is not having it ten or twenty times but rather three hundred to five hundred or more...

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Google Business Profile Tests Generative AI To Help Owners Write Business Descriptions

Google Business Profiles is testing using generative AI to help business owners write descriptions about their businesses. When you edit your business profile in Google, and then edit your business description, Google is showing some owners a AI-powered business description.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 2, 2023

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Google Search Showing Too Many Ads - Google To Fix

Google, for some users, is showing up to five search ads on a page. Google generally won't show more than four ads on a search results page. Google's Ad Liaison, Ginny Marvin, responded to the concerns by saying, "Thanks for bringing it to my attention. This is not working as intended and we're working to address it."

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Google Search Explore Tests "Return to Top" Button

Google is testing a "return to top" button at the bottom of the Explore section in the search results. Previously, you had to manually scroll to the top, but now you can just jump to the top with the click of a button.

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Google Ads New Trademarks Policy Now Requires An Appeal Form

A couple of months ago we reported Google will be changing 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. Google said this makes things faster but it reality, the process requires a lot more effort for some advertisers.

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Google Tests New Local Search Ad Format

About a month ago, I spotted a new ad format in the Google Search results that had this local pack vibe. I shared it around, seeing if anyone else would notice it but I didn't hear back. The new ad format looks like a local result but has a sponsored label.

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Google Removes @ID from Site Name Markup Documentation

Google has removed the @id mentions in the site name documentation calling the use of @id "unneeded." If you compare the old version of the page to the new version, you will see the example code that shows @id lines were removed.

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Google Super G Borg Style Sign

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 1, 2023

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Google: We Don't Archive Our Own Search Result Pages

Google's John Mueller was asked if Google stores a permanent or semi-permanent copy of its own search result pages for future reference. John replied basically saying no, because it is not an efficient use of Google's resources.

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Google Business Profile Adds View As Customer Link

Google is testing adding a "view as customer" link to your Google Business Profile web search dashboard. This, I assume, allows you to view your business listing in web search as a customer would see it and not as you, the owner, would see it.

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New Google Business Profile Policies Overview Page

Google has launched a new help document that gives business owners an overview of the Google Business Profile policies. I received an email about this update yesterday that read, "we're simplifying our policies and guidelines."

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