The Ultimate Cookie Recipe At The GooglePlex

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 24, 2023

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Programming Note: Offline Monday For Yom Kippur 5784

This is just a programming note that I will be 100% offline starting Sunday night (September 24th) through Monday night (September 25th) for Yom Kippur. I am not scheduling any stories on Yom Kippur...

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Google: Removing Content Doesn't Make The Other Content Rank Higher

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that removing content doesn't make the rest of your content rank higher. He said, "keep in mind that removing content doesn't make the rest rank higher."

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Google Cloud Swag Mug

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 22, 2023

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Google's Helpful Content Update Doesn't Target Third-Party Hosted Content Yet

When the September 2023 Google helpful content update came out, Google added new information to its documentation around this update. One thing was specific to this documentation change was around hosted third-party content. But Gary Illyes from Google said at PubCon last night that it was not yet implemented into the actual algorithm.

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Google Irvine Office's Eat/Play Area

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 21, 2023

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Theories On Why The Google Tracking Tools Show Calm Volatility & Weather

If you've been following my Google helpful content update volatility story, you will notice that the Google tracking tools are showing very little volatility when the SEO chatter is super heated. Generally when there is a lot of SEO chatter, the aggregate tools show heated volatility - but not with this helpful content update.

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Google Maps User Contributed Policy Fake Engagement & Personal Information Updated

Google has made two updates to its prohibited and restricted content policy for Google Maps user-contributed content. The impacted sections are the fake engagement and personal information sections. Here is what was added.

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Talk Like A Pirate Day Event At GooglePlex

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 20, 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.

It's been about six days now since the Google helpful content update started rolling out, it's been a weird one...

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Google Site Names Issues Continue For News Tab?

Last week we reported that the Google site names issues, according to Google, has massively dropped off, after the last big upgrade to site names in Google Search. Well, that might not be the case for the Google news tab.

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Google Bikes On Google Wall

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 19, 2023

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Google Search can now double-check the responses given by Google Bard...

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Google Search Can Now Check Bard's Answers

Google Bard now has deeper integration with Google Search, where you can use Google Search to double-check the responses Google Bard provides. Google will then tell you if Google Search found similar content to the Bard responses or found content that differs from the Bard responses.

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Some Local SEOs Reporting Google Business Profile Emails Not Being Received

Some local SEOs are reporting that they are not receiving emails from Google Business Profiles. They are not getting notified via email when they are being added to a Google Business Profile to access that profile, they are not getting notices like suspensions or review emails and so forth.

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Google Ads UA3 To Google Analytics 4 Conversion Mapping Causes Confusion

Google Ads has begun converting some of its conversion metrics from Universal Analytics 3 to Google Analytics 4 (UA3 to GA4) and it caught some advertisers off guard, despite numerous notices that this will eventually happen.

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Yusuf Mehdi & Mikhail Parakhin New Roles At Microsoft With Panos Panay's Departure

Microsoft's chief product officer Panos Panay is leaving the company and with that there were some internal leadership changes. Including Yusuf Mehdi and Mikhail Parakhin who are both super involved with Bing have newish roles.

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NASA Astronaut Suit At Google London Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 16, 2023

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Bing Tests Lock Icon In Search Results For Secure Websites

Bing is testing showing a lock icon in the Bing Search results for snippets from secure websites. Previously, Bing tested secure site labels and HTTPS labels in those positions but now Bing is testing showing a lock icon.

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Google Search Tests European Union Energy Labels On Products

Google is testing displaying the European Union energy labels or icons on some product search results. The energy efficiency of the appliance is rated in terms of a set of energy efficiency classes from A to G on the label, A being the most energy efficient, G the least efficient.

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Renegade Dalek Working At Google

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