Google Tests Local Service Ads List View

Google is testing showing two local service ads in a list view, a change from it showing three local service ads in a carousel format. Google actually switched to three LSAs a year or so ago, up from two, and is now back to testing two.

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Google Tests Colored +Topics Search Bar Refinements

Google is testing using colors for the +topic search bar refinements, those bubble buttons you sometimes get under this search bar in Google Search. I am seeing normal white buttons, then grey, blue and green, but I am sure there are more.

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iJustine With Google's Peter The Greeter

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 10, 2023

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Google Business Profiles Adds "Fix Photo That Doesn't Show" To Appeal Form

Google has added a new option in the Google Business Profile appeal for "Fix photo that doesn't show." This means you can submit a support request for when you know a photo is not showing up on your Google Business Profile and you want it to.

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Google Local Service Ads Photo Guidelines Now Faster Reviews & More Creative

Google is now saying that its new Local Service Ads guidelines are faster for reviews and also more flexible by allowing more creative images. What that really means, well, time will tell, but that is what Google is emailing local advertisers.

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Android Painter Statue

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 9, 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.

Google will show fewer HowTo and FAQ rich results in search going forward...

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Google Ads Gains New Ads & Reporting Insights For Upcoming Holidays

Google announced several new features for the upcoming holiday season; yea, it is coming... These features include Customer Acquisition with High Value optimization, local ad changes, new product reporting, and more visibility for your Google shipping ads.

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Google Jeep Buggy

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 8, 2023

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Google: You Don't Need A Niche Site To Rank On A Topic

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter, "You don't need to have a niche site in order to rank in Google; in fact, sometimes that's a good way not to rank." He explained that "A page doesn't have to be on a site that's "related to the niche" in order to be useful & helpful."

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Google Search Major League Baseball "Recent Featured Highlights"

Google has a new search feature titled "recent featured highlights" for Major League Baseball players. It showcases stats for recent games, short video clips and more.

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Google Carnival Sign

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 7, 2023

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OpenAI's ChatGPT New Web Crawler - GPTBot

OpenAI, the folks behind ChatGPT, have published information on its web crawler named GPTBot. You can now see if OpenAI is crawling your site, how much so, and you can disallow access to all or part of your site with the robots.txt protocol.

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Google Ads Releases New Responsive Search Ads Guide (PDF)

Google has released a new Google Ads PDF guide for RSAs, responsive search ads. The new guide is a 9-page PDF document that can be downloaded here.

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Google Metal Stairs

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 4, 2023

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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google SGE Gains Links & Videos, Search Console Not Tracking SGE, Business Profiles AI, Deceptive Bing Ads & More

This week we covered a possible Google algorithm updater yesterday and today. We also covered how the new Google Search Generative Experience now can show both links to sources and videos in the answer snapshots. Google SGE also has these new 'from Google' cards in the answers...

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Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update - August 3-4 (Unconfirmed)

It has been a full 9 days since I last reported about a Google Search ranking algorithm update and now I am seeing signs of another one starting yesterday, August 3rd through today, August 4th.

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Finally: Bing Chat Works On Chrome, Firefox and Other Browsers

This morning Bing Chat started to work across non-Edge browsers. That means, if you are logged into Bing, you can use Bing Chat on Chrome and Firefox and likely other browsers.

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LEGO Dinosaur Enclosed In Podium Casing At Google Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 3, 2023

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Google Ads Outages Impacting Majority Of Advertisers

Google just confirmed an issue with Google Ads that has been impacting advertisers all day. Advertisers are getting notices that read "Google Ads can't complete your request right now. Please reload this page to try again."

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