Programming Note: Offline For Simchat Torah

I will be offline completely for the holiday of Simchas Torah on October 17th and October 18th, Monday and Tuesday. Any stories published here will be scheduled and written beforehand and not posted live...

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 14, 2022

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

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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Webmaster Guideline Now Search Essentials, Unconfirmed Google Ranking Update, Product Reviews Transparency & More

This week, Google pushed out a revamped Google Webmaster Guidelines and renamed it the Google Search Essentials. Google also seemed to release an unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update. Google told us that the product reviews...

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Google: Pinging Sitemaps Help Get New Content Indexed More Quickly

Google's John Mueller said that pinging Google that your sitemap file has been updated can help Google index your new content quickly. He said it is simply Google practice to ping Google with when your sitemap file is updated.

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Google About This Result Gains Remove Result Button

Google announced at the Search On event that it would be adding a remove result feature in the about this result overlay in Google Search. Well, now it is there for all to click on and use, if they want...

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Just Because Ranking Top In Google Is Hard, It Doesn't Mean You Can't Succeed

We all know that ranking well for competitive terms in Google Search is not as easy, or even a fraction as easy, as it was two decades ago. This is because of many variables including but not limited to Google's algorithms getting better and there being a lot more competition.

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Google Local Panel "Hear About This Place" Feature In Some Regions

Google seems to have launched or is testing a feature to have Google Search read details about a local business listing. This might be in only some regions, as I cannot replicate this in New York but I received a few reports from India about this feature.

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Google Birthday Waffles

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 13, 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.

Google may have released another Google search ranking algorithm update...

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Google Zurich Egg Room

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 12, 2022

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Google AdSense Adds First Party Cookie Personalization & New Blocking Controls

Google AdSense has announced support for personalization with first-party cookies and also new improvements to the blocking controls navigation.

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YouTube Branded Speaker Wall

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 11, 2022

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Google Does Not Shuffle Search Results After They Are Loaded

Google's John Mueller said if you see the Google search results being shuffled around after they are loaded, then it is not Google Search doing that. Google does not "shuffle the search results after they're loaded," he said on Twitter.

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Advertisers Want Mass Opt Out Of Automatically Created Assets In Google Ads

In June we reported about a beta feature in Google Ads that gives Google the ability to automatically create assets for your ads. There is an opt-out feature but there is no way to opt out in mass.

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Fox At Google

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 10, 2022

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Google Adds Examples Of Types Of Product Review Pages To Help Doc

Google has added three examples of the type of product review pages and who can write them to the "how to write product reviews" help document.

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Google: Structured Data May Help Us Identify Product Reviews Content

Google has confirmed that structured data is one of the many signals the search company uses to help identify if a page has product reviews content or not. This was first said by Alan Kent of Googe and then confirmed by Danny Sullivan of Google.

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Google Dublin Bees

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Programming Note: Offline For Sukkot On Monday & Tuesday

This is just a quick note that I will be offline for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot on Monday, October 10th, and Tuesday, October 11th. All stories, social media posts, etc were pre-written and scheduled to be posted. I'll be back with live coverage Wednesday...

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 7, 2022

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Google Still Working On Getting Timestamps Accurate In Search Results

Google is still working on getting the timestamps accurate in the search results and news search results. Several publishers, including the Director of SEO at USA Today and the SEO Editor for WSJ complained about the inaccurate timestamps in Google Search the other day.

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Google Ads Apply A Recommendation As An Experiment In The Experiments Page

Google Ads announced that you can now apply a recommendation as an experiment in the Experiments page. This allows you to more efficiently "in as few as two clicks, you can set up an experiment where you compare your base campaign to a trial campaign which will have the recommendation applied," Google said.

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