SEO: 10/01/2023 - 11/01/2023

Daily Search Forum Recap: October 31, 2023

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Google: Old Content Doesn't Make It Unhelpful Content

Google's Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, said on X that just because content is old, it doesn't mean that content is unhelpful. He said, "Just because something is older doesn't make it unhelpful."

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Halloween Ghost Zombie Prop In Google Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 30, 2023

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Google Again Says Schema Does Not Make Your Site Rank Better

Google once again said that adding schema or structured data markup to your pages will not result in those pages ranking better in Google Search. Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, said this on X, "using schema doesn't give you a ranking boost," adding, "Schema doesn't make you rank better." He even said that "Schema has nothing to do with rankings."

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Google Helpful Content System Uses Machine Learning To Understand If Content Is Helpful

This is just a reminder that Google uses machine learning to understand if content is helpful or not within the Google helpful content system. This is not new, we've known this for over a year, but it seems many of us keep forgetting.

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Quantum Meditation Woman Sculpture At Google

Google Quantum Meditation Woman Sculpture

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 27, 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.

We're seeing signs of another unconfirmed Google search ranking update today...

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Microsoft Officially Relaunches The Old pubCenter As New

Here is an interesting announcement from Microsoft, announcing the new launch of Microsoft pubCenter - which is actually not new, it is from 2006 and had a slow painful death. But Microsoft is bringing it back saying, "we developed Microsoft pubCenter. It's a simple way for creators and small to medium-sized publishers to earn money from their site with a code-on-page ad solution."

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Google Pixel Wooden Dimensional Display Room

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 26, 2023

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BlueArray Porsche Taycan Parked Outside BrightonSEO

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 25, 2023

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Google is now testing stuffing ads in between the organic free search results...

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New: Google Search Supports Syntax Graph Merge

Google Search as of last week now supports syntax graph merge. This allows you to use two different forms of structured data, such as JSON-LD and Microdata, on the same page, and Google will support both.

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Google Ad Revenue Up 9.5% & Bing Ads Revenue Up 10%

Both Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising revenue were up big this past quarter, both up about 10%. Comparing it to last quarter, Google was only up 3% and Microsoft was up 8%. The previous quarters before that were much worse. So it seems like things are looking up on the ad revenue side.

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Google Black Sofas Home Room

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 24, 2023

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Google Local Listings Show How Soon You Can Get A Doctor Appointment

Google is now showing for some urgent cares and other medical offices, how long it would take to get an appointment at that facility. This shows both in the local pack and also in the specific local listing.

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Google Search Product Overlay Nearby Store Filter

For many years now, Google Search has offered ways to find products that are in stores near your location. Now the product overlay feature within Google Search also lets you filter by nearby stores.

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Krav Maga At Google Dublin

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 23, 2023

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Google Ads API Version 15 Now Available

Google has released version 15 of the Google Ads API last week but I did not notice until over the weekend. The big updates include but are not limited to new recommendation types, updates to Performance Max, new lookalike segments and improved offline conversion upload diagnostics, plus so much more.

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Google "Do More With Search" Feature

Google seems to be testing a new search feature to encourage more searches from its user base. There is this new "Do more with search" box that shows other searches the user can search for.

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Google AdSense Vignettes Ads New Frequency Controls

Google AdSense this morning rolled out frequency controls for vignette ads format in Auto ads. These frequency controls let AdSense publishers decide how often vignettes are shown to their users.

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Pulse Drummers At Google

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 20, 2023

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Google Ads Verification Form Too Long For Advertisers?

As you know, Google Ads has been requiring advertiser verification from more and more of its advertisers. Well, one advertiser posted on X saying it is too much, the length and number of questions to become verified is just too much.

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New Google AdSense Related Search For Auto Ads

Google has added a new auto ads option to AdSense named related search for auto ads. Related search for Auto ads lets publishers show their users search terms related to the page content they view.

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Google Chicago Sugar Cookies

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 19, 2023

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Google 25th Birthday Shirt

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 18, 2023

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Google Business Profiles Adds Disabled-Owned & Indigenous-Owned Attributes

Google has added two new attributes for businesses listed in Google Business Profiles. These attributes are identifies as disabled-owned and identifies as Indigenous-owned.

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New Google Graphical Choose Location For Search Results Overlay

Google is testing a new method to ask users to choose their location to better localize or personalize the search results presented to that searcher. This overlay says, "choose location for search results" and then offers an option for an "estimated location" or "precise location."

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The Google Algorithm Wall

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 17, 2023

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Google Recycled Materials Signage

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 16, 2023

Google Consolidating Local Search Photos Guidelines

Google will make the "existing Local Services Ads photos guidelines on the same page as the Local Services platform policies," the search company announced. This goes into effect on November 13, 2023.

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Google Search Set Your Food Preferences For Restaurant Results

Google Search is testing a gear setting icon on its local places results to let you set your food preferences. This setting would then show you restaurant results that better match those food preferences.

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Cool Google Sneakers

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 13, 2023

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Google Bag Statue

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 12, 2023

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Google Testing New Recipe Search Interface

Google is testing yet another new recipe search interface. This may be an ongoing test, as I cannot replicate it, but the recipe interface is way more interactive and useful than the current one.

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Bing Tests New Video Search Results Layout

Microsoft Bing is testing a new layout for the Bing video search results page. The layout has sections, and headings, for different types of videos, grouping those videos together. The results are grouped in two by five results with a headline, alternating with a light blue and white background.

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Google "People Also Buy From" Section In Search Results

Google shows a section in the search results for "people also buy from." It seems Google will show you other stores where people can and will buy the item you are searching for.

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Sunrise/Sunset From Google Tel Aviv Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 11, 2023

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Google Ads Policy For Ads That Offer Rewards To Allow Indirect or Non-Monetary Items

Google Ads later this month will update its policies for ads that offer rewards to allow indirect or non-monetary items to be offered as rewards. This policy change will happen on October 31, 2023.

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Mark Zuckerberg With Bing Team Over A Decade Ago

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 10, 2023

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Google Search Local Results Expandable Refinement Feature

Google can show local pack results in the mobile interface with these expandable refinements section. So if Google is not sure if you want one type of business category, it might show two or more for you to click on and reveal matching local businesses.

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White YouTube Jump Suits

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 9, 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's October 2023 spam update is now being felt...

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Wooden Google Mobile Cart Car

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 6, 2023

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Google shocked us by releasing the October 2023 core update...

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Google Keyword Planner Stops Forecasting Individual & Ad Group Keywords

Google's Ad Liaison, Ginny Marvin, confirmed on X that Google Ads has stopped maintaining the Keyword Planner individual & ad group keyword forecasting data. She said that "few advertising were using" them, so they stopped forecasting this data as of the summer.

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New GooglePlex Google Store Opening October 12th

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Google Issues With Indexing & Serving New Content

Google may be having issues with indexing and serving new content within Google Search. The issues started around 2pm ET and have been sporadically happening since then. I personally have been seeing new content come up randomly but most of my queries do not show new content.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 5, 2023

Google Search Tests New Hotel Snippet Carousel Design

Google seems to be testing a new hotel search result snippet. The search result snippet shows a carousel of hotel cards under the main snippet. These cards can be swiped through to see various hotel options listed on the website.

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Android 14 Statue - Android Upside Down Cake - At GooglePlex

Android Upside Down Cake Android 14 Statue

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 4, 2023

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Apple Business Connect, the local Apple Maps business profiles area...

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Apple Business Connect Adds Peer Group Benchmarks

Apple has announced new insights and analytics to Apple Business Connect, its local business dashboard. The new insights are called "Peer Group Benchmarks" and tell you how well your business is doing compared to similar businesses in Apple Maps.

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Fake Bear At Google

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 3, 2023

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I posted the big October 2023 Google webmaster report...

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Bing Tests Showing Number Of Visits On Search Ads Per Month

Bing seems to be testing showing the number of people who visited a website listed in a search ad. The ad in the Bing Search results says X "visitors in the past month."

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Microsoft: No One Hits 30 Bing Chat Turns In A Conversation Per Session

A few months ago, Microsoft increased the Bing Chat conversation limit to 30 turns in a chat conversation. But according to Mikhail Parakhin of Microsoft, no one hits that number - most people do way less than 30 conversations in a session.

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Google's 25th Birthday Celebration Photos (Many Photos)

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 2, 2023

Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility Sunday, October 1st?

I am seeing some early signs of an unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update, maybe some small shifts, starting yesterday, Sunday, October 1st. Only a couple of the tools showed volatility yesterday but there is renewed chatter within the SEO forums as of yesterday.

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Google Tests "Ask Your Own" Under People Also Ask

Google Search has started to test a box labeled "ask your own" under the People also ask and more questions section. This seems to take you into a chat-like experience, maybe in the Search Generative Experience, that gives you more answers based on the question you enter into the box.

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Google On Why Google Discover Traffic May Drop Or Increase

Google has added a new section to the Google Discover documentation to explain three reasons why Google Discover traffic may drop. Those three reasons include changes in interests, content type changes and updates to Google Search algorithms.

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Google Business Profile Bulk Data Changes

Google Business Profile is updating the data within the bulk Insight data to match the data you see for a single business profile listing. Google emailed those who have downloaded this data in the past month about this change.

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Google: Even High Quality Pages Can Still Not Be Indexed By Google Search

Generally, Google has said that when pages are not indexed and there are no technical issues, the reason it might not be indexed is that the page does not meet the quality marks to be included in the Google Search index. But John Mueller of Google said even high-quality pages aren't guaranteed indexing.

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G' Day Google Door Mat

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