Google BBQ At The GooglePlex In The Winter

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 20, 2023

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Google Search Console Video Indexing Report Improves Thumbnail Indexing Issues

As of January 19, 2023, Google has updated the video indexing report in Google Search Console, which now reports on thumbnail indexing issues more accurately. The result may be that you see reassignment of "Missing thumbnail" issues to more specific issue types, Google said.

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Google Search Local "Join Waitlist" Button (Not New)

The other day we reported on the newish check wait time button and now we are seeing a "join waitlist" button as well. I guess this gets you on the list to be seated at a restaurant.

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Google Search Tests Order Online Button At Top Of Snippet

Google is testing the "order online" button from the bottom of the search result snippet to the top of that snippet. I see it on the bottom, but some can see it towards the top of the snippet, above the sitelinks but under the description area.

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New Google Maps Posting Restrictions For User Generated Content (Reviews, Photos & Videos)

Google has posted a new help document for posting restrictions around user-generated content in Google Maps. This is specific to reviews, photos, and videos users may update to Google Maps. This may also include content such as ratings or Q&A topics.

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Google Explains Why The Affiliate Programs Spam Documentation Were Removed

Last October, Google revamped its Google Webmaster Guidelines into Google Search Essentials and one part of that was to consolidate the previous pages on thin content and affiliate programs into the overall documentation. Lizzi Sassman from Google explained a bit more on why this was done.

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Space Helmet Date Wall At Google Hyderabad Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 19, 2023

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Google Search Drops Playable Podcast Rich Snippets

Google has dropped the playable podcast search result rich snippets. 9to5Google reported this first, and there is a bit of confusion around what exactly Google removed. Google seems to have removed the recent episodes playable rich results for podcasts, where Google would show under a specific search result the recent podcasts.

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Google Ads Rolling Out Performance Max Experiments

Google is rolling out Performance Max experiments in Google Ads today. We knew this would come and now, I think for the first time but I might be wrong, we are seeing some advertisers gain access to this.

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Microsoft Bing Tests Topics Search Bar Refinements Like Google

Microsoft Bing is testing topics refinements options in the search bar, this is similar to what Google Search launched a few months back on mobile search and has been testing on desktop search.

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Green Google Singapore Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 18, 2023

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Google: Google Quality Updates Can Impact Crawling & Indexing

Google's John Mueller said again that its quality updates, like core updates and the others in the family, can not just impact the ranking of a page in Google Search but also how Google crawls and if Google decides to index that page.

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Singapore Google Product Expert Summit

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 17, 2023

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Google Search Tests New Location Override Feature

For a long, long time, Google has given searchers a way to override the location Google Search thinks you are searching for. Often, that location was in the footer, but for the past several months Google has been showing it at the top of the search results page for some more location-aware queries.

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Google New York City Inside Green Beach Chairs

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 16, 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...

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Google Unlikely To Increase Request Indexing Quota In Search Console

Google's John Mueller said that Google Search Console's URL Inspection tool to submit a page to be crawled would probably not see the quota increase anytime soon. He said on Mastodon, "given how much junk we get submitted there, I don't see us increasing those limits."

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Google Business Profile Image Server Rejected Upload Bug

Late last week, Google Business Profiles had a bug where uploading images to your business profile would fail. This was reported first by Tim Capper on Twitter on Thursday and the issue continued in through the weekend.

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Doogler In A Bag

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 13, 2023

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Local SEOs: Check Your Photos In Your Google Maps Pin Overlay

Mike Blumenthal dropped a simple but thoughtful local SEO tip that all businesses should do some time in the near future. Just check the featured photos that Google selected to be displayed in your Google Maps pin overlay.

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