Daily Search Forum Recap: February 22, 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.

Bear with me - a lot going on today...

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Prometheus: Why Bing AI Chat Is So Fast & Up-To-Date

Microsoft's Jordi Ribas, Corporate Vice President of Search & AI at Microsoft put together a detailed blog post explaining the Prometheus technology and how Bing uses it to make Bing AI chat fast and current.

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Report: Google Business Profiles Services Now Impact Local Rankings

Joy Hawkins and friends re-did a study they did years ago to discover that now the services you add to your Google Business Profiles now have an impact on your local rankings - at least way more than it did in 2019.

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Dancing Googler At Dublin Office

Googler Dancing At Dublin Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 21, 2023

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Google: Existing Sites Won't Drop In Rankings Just Because Its An Exact Match Domain

Google's John Mueller said on Mastodon that an existing site would not drop in ranking just because it uses an exact match domain. "Changes like that would be due to other reasons," he added.

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Google AdSense Sites Management Changes Coming March 20th

Google AdSense is updating the Sites page, where you define which sites you want to monetize using AdSense. The updates are coming on March 20, 2023, and include a redesigned Sites page and some changes to the rules on how site management works.

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Google: Core Web Vitals Shouldn't Be Top Of The List For Most Small & Local Businesses

Google's John Mueller said on Mastodon that for small and local businesses, "in most cases," core web vitals work should not be at the top of their list. He said this because the page experience ranking factor is not huge and more so, for sites with very few pages, Google doesn't usually have CrUX data for the pages on that site, and in those cases, the data is not used.

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Google Top Contributor Speaker

Google Top Contributor Bluetooth Mini Speaker

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 20, 2023

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Google's Gary Illyes On Noindex With Redirects

What happens when the noindex, nofollow directives are in the HTTP header and that URL is also being redirected somewhere, will Google respect or ignore the directive. Gary Illyes from Google hinted that Google will likely ignore the directive to be safe.

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John Mueller With Smoke Coming Out Of Head

John Mueller With Google Smoke

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 17, 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.

FYI...

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Google: Stop Using 403s or 404s To Reduce Googlebot Crawl Rates

Gary Illyes posted a new blog post on the Google Search Central site asking all of you to stop using 403 and 404 server status codes to reduce the crawl rate of Googlebot. He said they have seen an uptick in the number of sites and CDNs doing this and they need to cut it out.

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Scrollable & Expandable Google Knowledge Panel

Did you see the scrollable and expandable features in some user experiences with the Google Search knowledge panel and answer boxes?Well, here are examples of both - I am not sure if they are new, for some reason, I don't think they are - but I don't think I've covered it before.

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Google Dungeons

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 16, 2023

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Google Birthday Swag Box

Google Birthday Swag Box

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 15, 2023

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Google Mini Bus Inside

Google Mini Bus Inside

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 14, 2023

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Google: 301 Redirect Close 1:1 Match Even When Content Language Does Not Match

Gary Illyes from Google said on Mastodon this morning that you should 301 redirect URLs when there is a "close-to 1:1 match" for that URL. We know that, but what he added was this is even true for when the "language of the content doesn't match."

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Google Ads Gains Quick Campaign Settings Button

Google Ads seems to be rolling out a small but yet powerful icon in the campaigns listing where you can quickly open up the settings for the campaign without clicking through numerous screens.

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Old Google Robot

Old Google Robot

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 13, 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.

Publishers, as expected, are super concerned over the new AI features in Google and Bing...

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