Daily Search Forum Recap: October 1, 2021

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

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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Bigger Google Algorithm Update, MUM & More Google Updates, Number Of Ranking Signals & Google Turns 23

Google had an unconfirmed but pretty big Google Search ranking algorithm update on September 24th and 25th. Google hosted its big search event called the Search On event...

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Google Ads Sexually Explicit Content Policy Seen As Egregious Policy Violations

Google Ads, starting on December 1, 2021 and scaling up enforcement by January 2022, will see its sexually explicit content policy violations updated to egregious policy violations. That means ads that are found to violate the sexually explicit policy can lead to immediate account suspension upon detection and without prior warning.

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SEOs Noticing Google Search Console Crawled, Not Indexed Errors Even When Indexed

Lily Ray posted on Twitter that many SEOs are noticing this and posting about it on Twitter with "many examples of URLs in GSC's "Crawled, Not Indexed" report (with recent crawl dates) that are, in fact, indexed URLs." There are lots and many of me toos on this and it seems Google is investigating the possible issue.

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Google Says URL Case Applies To Robots.txt Directives

We've known for like two decades that Google does and can treat the same URL but with different cases differently. So domain.com/Apple vs domain.com/apple can be seen by Google as different URLs. But Google seems to be stricter about this rule when it comes to the robots.txt file.

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