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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 4, 2022

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...

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Google Loading A New People Also Ask In The Footer Section Of Search

Google is dynamically loading a new<<� people also ask section in the footer of the search results after you interact with the people also ask section in the upper section of the Google Search results.

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Google Search View In 3D For Some Wayfair Listings

Google first demonstrated view in 3D augmented reality images in the Google Search results back in 2019 and since then we have seen some retailers test it out and Google also use it for cute animals and other objects. But now it seems some core retailers, like Wayfair, is showing some of their products in 3D in Google Search.

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Google Adds Content Guidelines Links For Bloggers, Hosts, E-Commerce Sites & More

Google added links to its overview of guidelines page with five-more links, keep in mind, that this content is not new, they were published back in April in the Google Search developer resources.

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Google Adds Asian Owned Business Attribute For Business Profiles

Google has added yet another business attribute for Google Business Profiles - Asian-owned businesses. This is a new label that can be added to your business in Google Maps and Google Search "making it easier to find Asian-owned businesses in their own community," Google said.

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Five Years Later: Sites Still Being Migrated To Google's Mobile First Indexing

Google started its mobile-first indexing initiative over 5 years and 8 months ago, in November 2016. But we still have sites that are being migrated over from Google desktop-first indexing to mobile-first indexing in 2022.

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Google Train Station Clock

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 3, 2022

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.

I posted the large Google webmaster report for August...

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August 2022 Google Webmaster Report

Here is the large Google webmaster report for August 2022 - catching you all up on what you may have missed in the past month related to Google search and SEO topics. We had a confirmed Google algorithm update, the July 2022 product reviews update, we had a large indexing outage and several unconfirmed updates.

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Tracking Tools Now Picking Up On The July 2022 Google Product Reviews Update Volatility?

So we have been watching the July 2022 Google Product Reviews Update for some time and noticed that based on SEO chatter from within the community, it likely really kicked in on Friday afternoon. But the automated Google search result tracking tools really did not show much, in aggregate, but as of this morning, they now are.

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Google Tag - A New Version

Google announced a new Google Tag that Google says will "unlock new capabilities to help you do more, improve data quality and adopt new features - without requiring more code." Google Tag Manager is not changing today but it sounds like it will change in the future.

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Microsoft Advertising Rolls Out Automotive Ads, New Ad Formats, More Bidding Options, Plus More

Microsoft announced its monthly updates for the Microsoft Advertising platform. This includes rolling out automotive ads, new ad formats, more bidding options, vertical ads and so much more.

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Google Tests Site Name & Favicon On Image Results Within Web Search

Google is testing promoting the source of the images it displays in web search by adding the full site name and the favicon from the site in the image box. This was spotted by James on Twitter and I simply cannot replicate this.

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G Logo In Cement Pillar At Google Germany

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 2, 2022

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

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Legal Ruling May Allow Rumble To See Some Of Google's Secret Ranking Algorithms

Glenn Greenwald reported that a "federal district court in California on Friday denied Google's motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that the Silicon Valley giant is violating federal antitrust laws by preventing fair competition against its YouTube video platform." This may result in Rumble being able to see parts of Google's secret search ranking algorithm.

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Google Continues To Work On Deduplicating Multiple Ad Listings After LSAs Example

Joy Hawkins pointed out an example of Google Local Service Ads showing duplicate listings for the same law firm for the same query. Google has policies against that and asked if those policies are effective, to which Google's Ad Liaison said yes, and they continue to work to improve with those efforts.

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John Mueller Beautiful SEO Rant On Doing Versus Reading

I know some of you may not like it and may think I am some sort of suck-up for covering this but there is so much truth and beauty to John Mueller's recent SEO rant. He said, "maybe you should stop reading SEO blogs and instead do something useful for your site & its users?"

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Google: Update Internal Links From HTTP To HTTPS But...

If you are on an HTTP site and you decide to migrate the site to HTTPS, it is common practice to update all of your internal links from the HTTP URL format to the HTTPS URL format. Google's John Mueller was asked about this on Reddit and he said "I'd always try to fix internal links, it just makes things cleaner, and is under your own control. I doubt it would have any visible effect though."

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Google Search Console Validate Fix For Coverage Report Not Working Right Now

Yesterday afternoon Google temporarily disabled the ability to validate fixes for issues in the coverage report. This is related to some "minor updates" the Google Search Console is adding to those coverage reports over "the next few days."

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Rare Google Dublin Rooftop Outdoors Lunch

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 1, 2022

July 2022 Google Product Reviews Update Kicked In Friday Afternoon

On July 27th Google said it began to roll out the July 2022 Google Product Reviews update. But we didn't see it impact the Google search results until a couple of days later on Friday afternoon, July 29th.

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Being In Close Contact With Google Doesn't Benefit You Or Me

Being in close contact with Google or the people that work at Google really does not benefit you (or me). The is just the simple truth - you just won't benefit from that.

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Google Perspectives Search Results

Google seems to be testing a new search box and feature titled "perspectives." Perspectives seem to give searchers answers to a more broad and maybe philosophical type of query.

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