Poll: AI-Generated YMYL Content Trusted Less By SEOs

Lily Ray ran a Twitter poll asking SEOs if they trust content in the YMYL, your money or your life, category more, less or the same if it was written by AI. The vast majority of responses said they trust AI-generated content less than human-generated content.

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Google Cotton Candy Machine In London

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 26, 2023

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Google Publishes A New SEO Case Study, This One From Vimeo On Video SEO

A couple of weeks after I said I thought Google would stop publishing SEO case studies, Google just published a new one. This one is on How Vimeo improved video SEO for their customers, specifically by using the indexifembedded rule combined with noindex and adding structured data.

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Google Golf Tee Shirt By Google Designer

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 25, 2023

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Google is being sued by the DOJ again over alleged monopolistic actions...

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Two Justifications In The Google Local Search Results

Now, Google is showing double justifications for some local results. Google's local search results has a feature to highlight and/or summarize some of the local reviews in the map pack and local search results snippet. These highlights or summarizations are known as justifications.

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Microsoft Bing Ads Revenues Up 10% - Growth Slowing...

Microsoft reported earnings last night, and in after-hours trading, it seems, for the most part, that Wall Street is happy. But if you look at the search ad revenue numbers, that department's growth continues to slow.

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Google Kirkland Lit Up Crazy Like A Fox Wall

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 24, 2023

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YouTube Swing At Google London

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 23, 2023

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There may have been a Bing Search ranking algorithm update...

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Google Ads Outages Impacting Many Advertisers

Google has confirmed outages across the Google Ads network, including Google Ads for Search, Google Ads for other surfaces and many of the Google Ads management projects, like Search Ads 360, Display and Video 360 and Campaign Manager 360.

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Google: No Preference Between Connected Structured Data In Graph Array Or Disconnected Individual Elements

Google's John Mueller was asked if there is a Google SEO preference to having your structured data connected in some graph or node array versus having them as individual elements in their own blocks on the page. John said that Google has no preference.

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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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