Daily Search Forum Recap: August 25, 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 is now officially rolling out the helpful content update...

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Google Expanded From Sources Across The Web Feature

Google has this "from sources across the web" box that shows sites that cover a specific topic in this grid list view. You can click on a specific site to expand and show recent stories from that site on that topic.

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Google: Quality Raters Guidelines Are Not A Collection Of Ranking Tips

Google's John Mueller said that the Google quality raters guidelines are "not a collection of ranking tips." He said the quality raters guidelines "can be useful" to think about but again, they are not just a list of ranking tips.

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Google: Don't Noindex Pages With Comments, Keep The Good Comments Only

I am weird, I love user-generated comments and while tons of blogs removed them ages and ages ago, I kept them here. I do my best to remove the spam comments and keep the comments that are not spam. John Mueller of Google recently said he would not noindex pages with comments, instead, he would remove the spam comments and keep the good comments.

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Google Adds Content Guidelines To Education Q&A Structured Data Docs

Google has added a new section to the Education Q&A structured data documentation for content guidelines. Google added three higher-level content guidelines around this type of structured data.

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Google Helpful Content Update Is Now Rolling Out

The Google helpful content update is now rolling out. It can take up to two weeks to fully roll out. I'm currently typing this on my mobile phone but I wanted to get this up while I am out on vacation.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 24, 2022

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

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Google Discover Also Let's You Hide Content From Authors

The other day we reported that Google Discover was showing the author name under the article and not the site name, for some stories. Well, Google Discover can now let you hide content from showing up based on who writes it, despite where it might be published.

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Google Ads Automatic Upgrades To Performance Max For Local Campaigns

Google Ads announced that Google will start the process of automatically "upgrading" accounts to Performance Max for Local campaigns. Automatic upgrades will gradually progress and finish in September for most advertisers.

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Google Search Tests Popular On Twitter Box

Google is testing a new title for some of the Twitter carousel results in Google Search. I guess if something is trending on Twitter, Google will label the Twitter carousel as "Popular on Twitter."

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Google Deprecates International Targeting Report In Search Console

Google has announced on Twitter that it has deprecated the International Targeting report in Google Search Console. Google's international SEO advice has not changed with this but the International Targeting report will no longer work going forward.

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Google Adds "View All Business Profiles" In Web Search Results

As Google continues to migrate off of the old Google My Business manager to the web search interface to manage your business, Google keeps adding subtle but more features. Now, when you search [my business] in Google, Google will show you a link to "View All Business Profiles" in the web search results, instead of just showing you three profiles.

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Google Mini Basketball Game

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 23, 2022

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

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Google Tests New Local Service Ads UX

Google is testing a new layout and user experience for the Local Service Ads. This interface has the local service ads on the left and when you click on one, the box expands to the right with all of the details on the business.

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Google Ads: No Plans For Ad Customizers Using Location For Responsive Search Ads

Google's Ad Liasion, Ginny Marvin, confirmed on Twitter last week that there are no plans to add support ad customizers for responsive search ads, not now and not in the near future.

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Google Bar At The Chicago Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 22, 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.

Many SEOs don't seem too concerned about the upcoming Google helpful content update...

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Poll: Many SEOs Say The Content They Produce Is Helpful & Not Concerned

As you know, Google will soon roll out the helpful content update and it has some SEOs and site owners a bit on edge. But a recent poll Aleyda Solis posted on Twitter shows that almost 50% of SEOs feel the content they produce is helpful and are thus not worried about this algorithm update.

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Google: API Not Impacted By Search Console Indexing Label Bug

Last week we reported that Google Search Console had an embarrassing bug where it was reporting pages as being indexed, when those pages were not indexed by Google Search. The good news is that the URL Inspection tool API was not impacted by this bug, Daniel Waisberg from Google confirmed.

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Google Search Console Video Index Report Now 100% Live

A month ago, Google started to slowly roll out the video index report within Google Search Console. Now that rollout is complete, Google announced on Twitter this morning.

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Google Maps: Your Review Isn't Posted Email

Google Maps is now notifying reviewers when their review isn't posted. The email says "your review isn't posted" and explains why. In the case below, Google said its moderation systems and processes considered the review to be fake.

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Google: Just Because You Didn't Write It, Doesn't Mean Google Won't Count It Against You

Google's John Mueller explained that Google doesn't really care who wrote the content on your site and saying someone else wrote it and you did not write it won't save you from ranking issues related to the quality of that third-party content.

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