Google: Personalization In Search Is Extremely Light & Rare For Ranking

Google's Danny Sullivan confirmed, again, that personalization in Google Search is an "extremely light" ranking signal. In fact, he said personalization is "fairly rare" to be used for ranking purposes.

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Google Search Tests Suggested Channels Box

Google seems to be testing a new feature in the Google search results named "suggested channel." I personally cannot replicate this but he is a screen shot from Jonas Sickler on Twitter who spotted this last week.

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Poll: How Many SEO Projects Lead To Successful Outcomes For Clients

Aleyda Solis ran a super interesting poll on Twitter asking SEOs about their SEO project success rate. She asked "what percentage of the SEO Processes/Projects/Initiative that you work at end up having the "agreed/expected outcome" & are seen as a "success" by the client/stakeholders?"

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Cross-language Results Google Search Console Performance Filter

Google has a new (I think new) filter in the Google Search Console Performance report named Cross-language Results. I have never seen this filter, but I suspect this is related to if Google Search will take other languages, translate them for you, and include them in the search results.

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Google Has No Plans To Separate Out Control Of Indexing For Discover or Top Stories

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that the search company has no plans to separate out indexing and visibility controls specifically between Google News, Search, Discover or Top Stories. If you are in Search, you can be in the top stories carousel and there isn't a whole set of individual controls for each feature.

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