Daily Search Forum Recap: October 20, 2022

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

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Google October 2022 Spam Update Rolling Out - 11 Months After Last Spam Update

It has been 11 months since the last time Google released a spam update and now Google announced the October 2022 spam update. Google said this update will take several days to complete and is a global update.

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Google Working On Resolving Some Favicons Not Showing In Search Results

Google's John Mueller confirmed that Google Search is working on an issue with some favicons not showing up properly in Google Search. The issue has been ongoing for weeks, well before the new site name and favicon release was announced, by the way.

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Google Grouping Photos By Category For Some Business Profiles

Google seems to be grouping photos together by category for some business profile local panels. So if there are several photos of the location's bathroom, Google will group those together and show how many photos they have of that category.

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Google Tests New Local Finder Design With Expanded Services Listing

Google seems to be testing a new local finder for local queries that trigger the local pack. Andy Simpson spotted this and posted some screencasts and screenshots on Twitter.

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Google Ads Performance Max Working On & Investing In Decreasing Invalid Leads

There have been some complaints about using Performance Max with Google Ads with lead generation sites. The concern is that many or some of the leads end up being invalid. Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, said Google is "working to address concerns about invalid leads and are increasing investment in preventable measures."

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Netted Google Ceiling

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 19, 2022

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

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Google Local "Preview This Place" Large Image Carousel

Google seems to be testing a new local feature that has a section named "preview this place." This shows an image carousel from the local business profile of that business in search.

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Google: Search Rankings Not Controlled By Evil Outsiders

I spotted this interesting statement from Google's John Mueller on Twitter the other day. He said "In my 15 years at Google, I haven't run across a site whose ranking is secretly being controlled by outsiders. I couldn't imagine that being the case."

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Recording Video Outside The GooglePlex

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 18, 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.

Some SEO tips and lots of search interface tests below...

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GoDaddy Rep: AdSense & Analytics Improves Google Indexing But It Does Not

An individual chat support representative at GoDaddy told a knowledgeable SEO that adding Google AdSense and/or Google Analytics help with getting your content indexed by Google. John Mueller of Google said that was not true, and that someone should communicate that to the GoDaddy rep.

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Bing Tests More On This Topic From For News Sources

Microsoft Bing is testing a new feature in Bing Search in the news section of the search results. The feature is titled "more on this topic from" and it shows a list of news publication's logos that you can click on to see more news from that specific publication.

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Google Search Console Is Not Delayed More For Accounts With Lots Of Verified Profiles

Google's John Mueller said there isn't an added delay in Google Search Console reporting for those who have many verified sites in their Search Console accounts. The delays are not specific to the number of sites you have verified but just generic delays in Search Console.

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Google Product Panel In Search Testing Expand Pricing Details

Google is testing a new interface and user experience for the product panel results in Google Search. The new interface has the price with arrows to expand the price, which breaks down the base price, delivery cost, taxes, and more.

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Google: A Character Is Needed After The /? Of A URL To Be Unique

This may be obvious to many of you and this is a purely technical note, but for a URL to be somewhat unique, generally you need to have at least one character after the trailing slash followed by the question mark. So if you have a URL that ends with /? it is the same thing as that being just /.

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Organic Looking Google Amsterdam Cafe

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 17, 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: There Is No Need To Use English URLs For Pages Not In English

Google's John Mueller said that there is no need to use English URLs when your pages are not in English. You can use the language of the page in your URLs, if you want. Or if you prefer, you can use English URLs - it does not matter too much he said.

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Pixel 7 Cake

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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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