Daily Search Forum Recap: August 15, 2022

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.

If you are not happy with the latest Google product reviews update...

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Google Search Console Validate Fix Now Back

Google has reenabled the validate fix feature in Google Search Console just now. It was not there a couple of hours ago and has been not working since the beginning of this month but now it is back.

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Vlog #185: Sarah Burke On The Benefits Of Google Analytics 4 & Why Data Dashboards Are Important

In part one, we learned about Sarah Burke, the Data and Analytics Manager at Cypress North. We also spoke about some of the differences between Google Analytics 4 and Universal Analytics 3. Here we talk about the benefits of Google Analytics 4.

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Bing Shopping Searches Gains Coupons, Promotions, Price History & More

Microsoft Bing Shopping has officially added a lot of the features we noticed early such as coupons and promotions, price history, and ethical choice annotations, the company announced.

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Google: What To Do With Old Event Pages

What do you do if you run an event and the event is over, do you keep the webpage live, do you redirect it, do you just delete it and 404 the page? The answer is it depends, as you'd imagine.

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IndexNow Is Growing But Should You Pay Attention?

Microsoft's IndexNow protocol is growing and the search company keeps investing in it, despite Google not adopting it - yet. Microsoft said that more than 16 million websites are publishing over 1.2 billion URLs per day to the IndexNow API.

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Google Discover With Author Names Instead Of Site Name

Google Discover can now show the author name of a specific story instead of showing the site name under the story. I personally do not use Google Discover much but a couple of savvy Google Discover users noticed this over the weekend.

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Are Not Happy With The Last Google Product Reviews Update? Tell Google.

The last Google product reviews update, the July 2022 Google Product Reviews Update, was an interesting one. It felt, based on SEO and webmaster feedback, that it just didn't hit the mark in terms of quality relative to past Product reviews updates. If you have examples of where and how Google got it wrong, you can let Google know about it.

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A Google Shadow

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 12, 2022

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 now says its guaranteed ads, the local service ads...

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Google Guaranteed Local Ads Adds Reviews Not Guaranteed Disclaimer

Google has added a label on the Google Guaranteed Local Service Ads reviews to say the reviews are not guaranteed. This I guess comes as no surprise with all the Google Local Service Ads spam and junk we have been noticing recently.

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Google: Clicking On Your Site In Google Search Won't Hurt Or Help Your Rankings

One of the oldest myths in the Google SEO-verse is that clicking on your search results in Google Search will help you rank better. Google does not and has never used click data for ranking purposes (with the exception of a short period of Google+ data being used in Google Search).

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Google: Sitemap 50,000 Limit Based On Location URLs, Not Alternative URLs

We know that each XML sitemap file can contain a maximum of 50,000 URLs but what is counted as the 50,000 URLs? John Mueller was asked if Google counts both the location URL and the alternative URL in the 50,000 limits. John said it is just the location URL.

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Google Image Search Now Uses Google Lens

Google Images at images.google.com now uses Google Lens when you click on the upload a photo icon. This has been coming for a long long time and is finally fully here.

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Yellow Hallway At Google NYC

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 11, 2022

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

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Google 404s Rich Media File Best Practices Help Document

Google has deleted and 404ed the Rich media file best practices. Google said removed its "documentation about rich-media files, such as Silverlight and Flash." Why? This is the best part, Google wrote "turns out it's not 2005 anymore."

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Google Adds GTIN12 Property To Product Structured Data Support Doc

Google has the gtin12 property to the Product structured data documentation in its help center. Note, the gtin12 property was always supported but Google just didn't have it in the documentation until today. Google also clarified that you can use the generic gtin property for all GTINs, but Google said it recommends that you use the most specific one if possible.

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Google Search Console Performance Report For Discover Reporting Issue On July 26

Google has confirmed it had a reporting issue in the Google Search Console Performance Report for Discover traffic. Google said the issue was on July 26th and may result in a drop in clicks and impressions on or around that date.

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Google Tests Search Refinements In Autocomplete For Desktop

Google may be testing showing search refinements in the autocomplete, Google Suggest, in the desktop search experience. We saw this a year or so ago in mobile search and now we see it on desktop search.

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Weaving Workshop At Google

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 10, 2022

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.

FYI...

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Google Follow Feature Docs Now Say Use Descriptive Titles For RSS Feed & Use A Single Feed

Google has made a couple of tweaks to the documentation for the Follow Feature in Google Search. Google added you should use (1) descriptive titles for your RSS feed and (2) a single feed even if you have multiple.

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Google: Dynamic Rendering Is A Workaround and Not A Long-Term Solution

Google has updated its help documentation on dynamic rendering to say "dynamic rendering is a workaround and not a long-term solution for problems with JavaScript-generated content in search engines. "Instead, we recommend that you use server-side rendering, static rendering, or hydration as a solution," Google added.

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Google Search Showing Fewer Review Rich Results In Shopping Vertical

Google may be showing fewer reviews in the search result snippets, fewer review rich results, specifically when you filter by the shopping vertical. This seemed to happen right when Google released the Google Product Reviews update, there was a five percentage point drop in the number of review snippets for this category.

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