Daily Search Forum Recap: October 8, 2021

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Weird Google Search Updates, Facebook Outage, Google Link Scheme Penalties, Sustainability at Google & More

This week, I started off with the big monthly Google webmaster report - it is a good way to catch up or remind yourself of what changed. Google Search had this really weird Google Search update this past weekend...

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Possible Google Search Ranking Update On October 6th & 7th

There were some signs of a possible Google search ranking algorithm update that touched down on October 6th, spiked a bit more on October 7th and is fizzling out today, October 8th. The tools are not as insane as with this past weekends update but there is more chatter this time around.

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Google AdSense To Move To First-Price Auction - Expect No Impact

Google announced that by the end of the year, Google will move AdSense from second-price to first-price auction. Google said they expect this to have a neutral impact on AdSense publishers' earnings overall.

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Google Search Console Core Web Vitals Report Adds Granular Scores

In May 2020, Google added a core web vitals report (to replace the speed report) in Google Search Console. The report now seems to show more granular scoring data on a URL group basis under the "example details" section on the right bar after you click on a specific URL group in the report.

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