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Rare Google Dublin Rooftop Outdoors Lunch

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 1, 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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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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Google Business Profile Tests Expandable Menu In Web Search

Google Search is testing a new expanded menu for the Google Business Profile tool in Google Web Search. This allows you to click an arrow down to expand the options to edit your business profile directly in the desktop Google Search interface.

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Google Doesn't Care How Many Facebook Tracking Links Are In GTM

It seems Google does not care how many Facebook tracking links you have in your Google Tag Manager, especially for Google Search reasons. John Mueller was asked about this and said "I'm not aware of anyone at Google, much less in Search, caring about that."

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Holding A Google NYC Manhole

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 29, 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 has updated its search quality raters guidelines PDF last night...

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Search News Buzz Video Recap: July Google Product Reviews Update, Quality Raters Guidelines, Things To Know Disappear, Core Web Vitals, Bing, Ads & More

This week, it was awkwardly quiet with the Google rankings and then Google dropped the bombshell, the July 2022 Google Product Review update touched down. Google also released new search quality raters guidelines...

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Google Maps To Add Aerial Views, More Biking Details & More

Google Maps announced it is adding photorealistic aerial views, new cycling route information, new notifications for sharing your location, and more.

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Google: Age Verification Requirement May Prevent Site From Surfacing In Google Discover

Danny Sullivan of Google said on Twitter that he believes that sites that require age verification would not surface in Google Discover. He added he has to confirm this but has not responded in three days since saying this originally.

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Google Core Web Vitals No Longer Impacted Pages With Noindex

In 2021, Google said that Core Web Vitals may also be graded based on pages on your site that are noindexed. Well, that is no longer the case according to an updated Google help document. A page that has noindex on it will no longer be factored into your Core Web Vitals and Google Page Experience scores.

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Google: Embedding Iframes With NoIndex Does Not NoIndex Your Page

This may be obvious to a lot of folks but embedding iframes can be a confusing topic to many. John Mueller of Google confirmed that if you embed an iframe that contains a meta noindex, it won't result in the page you are embedding the iframe being removed from the Google index.

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Google Updates Search Quality Raters Guidelines On July 28th

Google has updated its Google Search Quality Raters Guidelines PDF just a bit over 9 months since the last update. The document keeps getting smaller, from 175 pages in 2020 to 172 pages in 2021 and now to 167 pages in 2022.

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Google Fast Looking Sign

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 28, 2022

Google Maps Tests Infinite Scroll For Search Results

We have seen Google Search test infinite scroll search results on and off for years, even launching continuous scroll on mobile officially. But now we are seeing Google Maps test infinite scroll in its search results interface.

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Microsoft: 5% Of BingBot Crawls Are New BingBot

Fabrice Canel from Microsoft said on Twitter last night that 5% of all URLs downloaded are over the new BingBot user agent. To take you back, in April, Bing announced a new user agent for its crawler, BingBot.

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Google Merchant Center Now Allows Login Required & Restricted Purchase Free Listings

Google has updated its Google Merchant Center policy to no longer disapprove the login required and restricted purchase free listings. Google said instead, Google will mark them as active but may notice the products "have limited visibility on Google."

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The Local Thai Restaurant (Another)

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 27, 2022

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

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Google Tests List View Top Stories With News Taking Over Web Results

Google not only is testing more list view formats for the top stories section but also testing, for some queries and some searchers, having the first set of web results taken over by news stories.

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Google Tests Plus Sign On Related Searches, People Also Search For & More

Here is a small but interesting test I want to document. Google is testing showing a plus sign before the related searches and people also search for sections in Google Search.

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Google Ads Revenue Up 13.5% & Microsoft Bing Ads Revenues Up 15% But Slowed Growth

Both Google (Alphabet/GOOG) and Microsoft Bing (MSFT) announced earnings last night and while both missed expectations, both earnings were not that bad and their respective stock prices are up after hours. If you zoom into Google Ads revenue, it was up about 13.5% and Bing Ads were up about 15%.

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