Daily Search Forum Recap: August 8, 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.

Over the weekend we saw a lot of volatility in the Google search results...

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Vlog #184: Part I: Sarah Burke On Data Analytics and Differences Between GA 4 & UA3

Sarah Burke is the Data and Analytics Manager at Cypress North, she has been with the company for seven years, starting as a digital marketing manager. Prior to that...

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Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update On Saturday, August 6th - PRU Tremors Or Something Else?

On Saturday, August 6th, we saw a lot of signals that there was another Google Search ranking algorithm update. It is not clear if these are tremors for the finished Google products reviews update from July 2022 or if this is something new and different.

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Google: Noindex On One URL In An Hreflang Cluster Can Impact All The URLs In That Cluster

In the latest Search Off the Record podcast, Lizzi Sassman of Google asked Gary Illyes of Google about using a noindex on international URLs in an hreflang set. Gary said it can potentially lead to the whole cluster being noindexed.

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Google Search Image Preview Overlay Now Fully Live In Web Search Results

Several days ago we reported how Google was testing a web search feature for the image pack that keeps you within web search when you click on a specific image. Well, this image preview pack overlay feature seems to be fully live for me and others.

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Google Local Spam Now Includes Duplicate Photos, Posts, Videos, and Logos

Google has updated its Business Profile posts content policy to specify that Google now considers duplicate photos, posts, videos, and logos as spam. If you have duplicate photos, posts, videos, and logos on your Google Business Profile, your post may be removed but your listing won't be suspended.

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Google Now Supports Pros and Cons Structured Data For Reviews Pages

Google now supports new structured data for pros and cons of editorial review pages. This new markup can be validated in the Rich Results testing tool and other Search Console tools (I assume). Also, Google will prioritize supplied structured data provided by you over automatically extracted data that Google previously showed in Google Search.

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A Real Google Map - A Map Of The GooglePlex

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 5, 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 Finished On August 2nd & No One Said Anything

So Google has finished the rollout of the July 2022 Google Product Reviews Update in a record-breaking fashion, in a six-day period. It even shocked Google because Google originally estimated 14-21 days for the rollout and Google didn't even mention anything on its social channels about the update being done rolling out.

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Google Business Listings Test Photo Overlay Interface In Web Search

Google seems to be testing overlaying the photos of some Google Business Profile listings in the web search results. Typically when you click on a photo in a Google Business Profile listing you are taken into the Google Maps interface to view the photos but this test simply overlays the photos on top of the web search results.

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RankRanger: Google Things To Know Back In Desktop Search Results

About two weeks ago, Google stopped showing the Things To Know box in the desktop search results but don't fret, it seems to be back now. RankRanger's tracker tool spotted that the Things To Know box has returned to normal levels within Google Search.

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Google Updates Searches With Quotes To Show Location Of Page That Contains Quoted Words

Google announced it has changed how it displays search results for queries that use queries. The search snippet will now display the portion of the page where the quotes match, so the searcher knows where to look on the page when clicking through to the URL.

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Google Ads Editor & API Now Support Discovery Ads, Plus New Audience Insights

Google announced a bunch of new things for Google Discover Ads yesterday. They include that the Google Ads Editor and Google Ads API now support Discovery ads, there are new audience insights at the Discovery campaign level, and new support for images with text overlays.

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Outside Of The Google Chicago Subway Cars

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 4, 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 Loading A New People Also Ask In The Footer Section Of Search

Google is dynamically loading a new<<� people also ask section in the footer of the search results after you interact with the people also ask section in the upper section of the Google Search results.

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Google Search View In 3D For Some Wayfair Listings

Google first demonstrated view in 3D augmented reality images in the Google Search results back in 2019 and since then we have seen some retailers test it out and Google also use it for cute animals and other objects. But now it seems some core retailers, like Wayfair, is showing some of their products in 3D in Google Search.

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Google Adds Content Guidelines Links For Bloggers, Hosts, E-Commerce Sites & More

Google added links to its overview of guidelines page with five-more links, keep in mind, that this content is not new, they were published back in April in the Google Search developer resources.

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Google Adds Asian Owned Business Attribute For Business Profiles

Google has added yet another business attribute for Google Business Profiles - Asian-owned businesses. This is a new label that can be added to your business in Google Maps and Google Search "making it easier to find Asian-owned businesses in their own community," Google said.

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Five Years Later: Sites Still Being Migrated To Google's Mobile First Indexing

Google started its mobile-first indexing initiative over 5 years and 8 months ago, in November 2016. But we still have sites that are being migrated over from Google desktop-first indexing to mobile-first indexing in 2022.

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Google Train Station Clock

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 3, 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.

I posted the large Google webmaster report for August...

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August 2022 Google Webmaster Report

Here is the large Google webmaster report for August 2022 - catching you all up on what you may have missed in the past month related to Google search and SEO topics. We had a confirmed Google algorithm update, the July 2022 product reviews update, we had a large indexing outage and several unconfirmed updates.

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Tracking Tools Now Picking Up On The July 2022 Google Product Reviews Update Volatility?

So we have been watching the July 2022 Google Product Reviews Update for some time and noticed that based on SEO chatter from within the community, it likely really kicked in on Friday afternoon. But the automated Google search result tracking tools really did not show much, in aggregate, but as of this morning, they now are.

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