Daily Search Forum Recap: March 8, 2023

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

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Google Local Service Ads Gains More Service Types

Google announced yesterday that Google Local Service Ads now supports 70 service types across five new categories. The categories include education, people care, pet care, wellness and health care.

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Google Ads Performance Max For Travel Goals Available Globally Soon

Google Ads announced that Performance Max for travel goals will be available globally over the next few weeks. Performance Max for travel goals helps hotels create ads in multiple formats and in one campaign reach more travelers across Google properties.

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Bing Chat Showing Unique Referrer In Edge Sidebar For Analytics

We all want to see how much traffic the new Bing Chat feature will send us and we know Bing Webmaster Tools will eventually add it. But how about analytics? Well, there are signs Bing Chat is adding some tracking variables for analytics software.

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Another Google Mailbox Wall

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 7, 2023

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Googley Sofa

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 6, 2023

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Vlog #213: Sam Michelson On Pricing Your Digital Marketing Services

In part one, we spoke about who Sam Michelson is and his business development techniques. In part two, we dove into CRM software and how they use it, including looking at a new piece of software for partner management...

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Google Blue Highlights In Featured Snippets Live

After many months of testing, Google has launched the highlights in the featured snippets within the Google search results. Google seems to have gone with the blue highlights, not the yellow, as we previously reported on both styles.

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Another Google Fire Pit

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 3, 2023

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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Product Reviews Volatility, Bing AI Chat Updates, Google Bard & AI, Google Ads and More

This week we saw a lot more volatility from the Google Product reviews update, one last weekend and the other around March 1st. I also posted the big Google webmaster report for March 2023. Bing AI chat now lets you set the tone of the responses...

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Google On Moving Domain To Temporary Domain & Then Back To Original Domain

An SEO is in a situation where a site needs to move from www.domain.com to new.domain.com and then a few months later back to www.domain.com. John Mueller of Google was asked if they should use 302 redirects but John said, no, use 301 redirects.

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Google Ads Testing New Design To Improve Advertiser Workflow

Google announced it is testing a new design to help improve the workflow of advertisers in the Google Ads console. Google said it is "testing new designs to improve how the product is organized and make things easier to find'"while continuing to provide the same tools and solutions you rely on to grow your business."

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Google: You Don't Hoard Anything By Nofollowing Links (It's An SEO Myth)

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that it is an SEO myth to say you can use the nofollow attribute on links to hoard your links. He said, "You don't hoard anything when you make links nofollow." "It's a common SEO myth," he added.

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Bing Tests Site Favicon On Right Of Search Result Snippet

Microsoft Bing is testing placing a site's favicon on the right side of the search result title's snippet. We are accustomed to seeing it on the left for Google search results, we even saw Bing testing it on the left on mouse cursor hover over, but here it is being tested on the right.

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Google Local Posts Updates & Test Interfaces

Google is testing a few interfaces for the Google Posts and updates in the local interfaces. One is to overlay the Google updates in the images for the business listing and the other is to show a "more posts" button in the Google Posts overlay in Google Search.

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Food Trucks At The GooglePlex

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 2, 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.

I posted the big Google webmaster report...

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March 2023 Google Webmaster Report

Here is the big Google webmaster report for March 2023, where I cover all the most important things that happened with Google search over the past month. The highlights include the Google product reviews update and a few unconfirmed updates. Of course, the Google Bard tease and AI content guidelines for Google Search, plus much more.

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Google: We Treat Hashtags As Words In Content

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter, "when it comes to web pages in Google Search, hashtags are just words, they have no special meaning or effect." So if you are big into hashtagging everything, Google will consume it as just content on the page.

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Google On lastmod Tag In XML Sitemap: Update The Date If Your Providing Something New

Google's John Mueller spoke a bit more about when you should update the date in the lastmod tag in the XML sitemap file. He said on Twitter if you are "providing something new for search engines that you'd like reflected in search," then update the date, if not, then don't.

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Google Ads Policy Changes For Malicious Software, Compromised Sites & Unwanted Software

Google Ads is updating its Malicious or unwanted software policy on May 9, 2023. The policy will be split into three policies, Malicious software, Compromised sites, and Unwanted software.

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G Bike Parking Spot At The GooglePlex

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