John Mueller Of Google Providing Webmaster Support On Christmas Again (2023 Edition)

Every year, John Mueller, Senior Search Analyst / Search Relations team lead at Google makes a significant effort to help respond to SEO-related questions on Christmas. He has done this since at least 2007, so sixteen-years and counting, and has done it again this Christmas.

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Pre-Christmas Intense Google Algorithm Ranking Volatility

No one should be surprised to hear that I am reporting on some intense Google search ranking volatility starting this Friday, December 22nd, through the weekend, with things seeming to calm down today, Sunday, December 24th. Did Google push an algorithm update or tweak before the holiday break? Who knows, but there are signals of ranking volatility either way.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 22, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

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Google Advertiser Verification Program To Accept DBAs

Google Ads has this advertiser verification program and now advertisers can use their DBAs ("doing business as") or trade names for that verification. Google said these names are accepted if the legal documents also state the names and in many legal documents, it does ask for DBAs to be listed.

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Google Cloud Building

Google Cloud Building

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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 21, 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 Search had some weird indexing/serving issues starting earlier today...

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Google Diwali Dance Performance

Google Diwali Performance

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Google Search Having Indexing Issues This Morning?

Google Search may be having issues with indexing or serving this morning. I am seeing tons of reports from SEOs on X that Google is having indexing issues, tons. So I am posting this story to see if I can see firsthand if Google is indeed still having indexing issues.

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Google Search Christmas Decorations Are Live For 2023

Christmas is in five days and today Google has launched its Christmas decorations for Google Search. As an FYI, Google launched the Chanukah decorations on December 3, 2023 but now we are approaching Christmas...

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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 20, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

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Google's Sullivan Collecting & Submitting Low Quality & Problematic Search Results

Over the past few months or so there has been a lot of complaints both from the SEO community and the general internet community about the quality of the Google search results. The SEO community has been very vocal on social and on this blog about the issues they see with Google search quality.

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Interesting Google Room Divider

Google Room Divider

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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 19, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

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Google Image Shopping Search Results Sparkle Animation

With all the Google Shopping try on features, it looks like Google is rolling out a sparkle animation feature for the Google Image shopping search results. It shows you the product itself, symbolizing you can maybe swap out the virtual model with someone else.

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Google Analytics 4 Subproperties Now Integrates With AdSense

Google announced additional integration support between Google Analytics 4 and AdSense. Google originally added integration in June 2023 between GA4 and AdSense but now "if you're using GA4 subproperties or roll-up properties, you can establish links between those properties and AdSense accounts independently from the source properties," Google said.

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Google Santa's Helpers

Santa Helpers Google Dublin

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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 18, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

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Santa At Google's Dublin Office

Santa Google Dublin

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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 15, 2023

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Google Search Results Get It By December 24 Section (Christmas)

A couple of years ago, Google added a filter to its shopping search results for "get it by" a specific date. Now with the Google Search results getting more e-commerce-like, Google added that filter to the side bar for some queries and also is testing a new section to get the gifts by Christmas, by December 24th.

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Google's Race Car Arcade Games

Race Car Games Google

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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 14, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

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Microsoft To Bring Deep Search To Bing Chat / Copilot But It Is Way Too Slow Now

Microsoft is working to bring its new Deep Search feature to Copilot, formerly known as Bing Chat. The issue is, (1) Deep Search is only available to a limited number of searchers in Bing Search and (2) it is way too slow to bring it to a chat interface.

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