Google Tests Shading Colors Of Favicons - Altering Your Official Favicon

Google is testing shading and adding color and depth to favicons that they display in the search result snippets. This was spotted some time ago but it seems to be more broadly being tested now, including the shading experiment.

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Google Removed The Robots FAQs Document

Earlier this week, Google removed its Robots.txt FAQ help document from its search developer documentation. When asked, John Mueller from Google replied to Alexis Rylko saying, "We update the documentation from time to time. Feel free to submit feedback if you feel something's missing. Robots.txt is definitely still a thing."

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Mock Alligators At SEO Conference

Alligators Seo Conference

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Happy Thanksgiving: Google's History of Thanksgiving Doodle

Happy Thanksgiving everyone and to celebrate the holiday, I will not be posting news today. Don't worry, a lot of news will be posted tomorrow, including the weekly SEO video recap (subscribe!).

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 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.

Google is testing "simple search" feature...

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Google Office With Bubble Wrap Tube Walls

Google Bubble Wrap Tube Wall

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 21, 2023

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Google Tests Longer Local Justifications From Third Party Sources

Google may be testing showing longer-form justifications in the Google local results. In the example below, provided by Miriam Ellis on X, it showed a more extended description/justification provided by Yelp.

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Google Quiet Room Android Sign

Google Quiet Room

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 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.

You can send your site to Google if it lost a lot of traffic in Search...

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Google Investigating Issue With Search Console Experience Report URL Declines

Google is currently investigating a likely issue or bug with the Google Search Console experience reports. The issue is that they seem to be showing a decline in the number of valid reported URLs across the core web vitals, HTTPS, AMP, mobile usability and other page experience reports.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 17, 2023

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Danny Sullivan Posts His Google Search Presentation On X

Last night, Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, shared the presentation he gave at brightonSEO online on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. The presentation covers Google Search results not being perfect, how Google update aim to improve those results, and how Google's guidance to creators needs to improve.

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Smart Google Cupcakes - Google For Education Cupcakes

Google For Education Cupcakes

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 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.

This newsletter is a lot bigger than the average...

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Google SGE Gift Ideas, Generate Images For Apparel & Men's Virtual Try On

Google announced some new Search Generative Experience (SGE) features for shopping, including gift ideas, generating images for apparel purposes, and more virtual try-on features.

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Google Dublin Pool Table View

Google Dublin View For Pool Table

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 15, 2023

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Google: Avoid Including Prices Of Flights In Your Title Tags

Google has updated its title links help documentation to say it is best to avoid including flight price information in title elements. Google said this is because flight prices rapidly change and if you show one price to a searcher and then they click over from Google to your page and it is a different price, that can lead to a bad experience.

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Google Curved Lobby Glow Wall In Atlanta

Google Atlanta Curved Lobby Wall

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 14, 2023

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Google Products Results With Discussion and Forum Feature

Google seems to be testing showing the Discussion and Forum feature within product listing search results. The Discussion and Forum is about a year or so old now but I've never seen it for products, that is until now.

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Microsoft Advertising Sending Faster Email Disapproval Notices

Microsoft announced that it has updated some of its existing advertising policies and with that also made the email notification process for disapproval faster and quicker.

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Google Pixel Pants

Google Pixel Pants

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 13, 2023

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