Daily Search Forum Recap: September 29, 2022

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Google Really Wants You To Avoid Changing URLs Just For SEO Reasons

Google's John Mueller has put down some strong language against changing your URLs for SEO reasons alone. He basically said in most cases, changing URLs will have a negative impact on SEO and that you probably should not change URLs just for SEO reasons.

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Google Ballroom Dancing

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 28, 2022

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Google: There Is No Percentage To Measure Duplicate Content

Google's John Mueller asked if there was some sort of percentage people can use to determine if their content may be considered duplicative or not. John said there is none and he asked how would you measure such a thing.

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Google Chicago Tumblers

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 27, 2022

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Google Wood Room Area

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 26, 2022

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Vlog #190: Marguarite Humphrey's Career & Challenges Of Working With Large Franchises In Search Marketing

Marguarite (Maggie) Humphrey worked at Cypress North as an intern back in 2019, then went to DAC for a few years...

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Google Local Search Ranking Bug Fix Rolling Out

A couple of weeks ago we reported on a possible Google local search ranking update that turned out to not be an update but rather a bug. Well, that bug seems to be fixed or being fixed now and rankings are beginning to return for these local service area businesses.

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Google Search No Results Found Fishing Game Gone Fishing

A year ago, last November, Google started to show this GIF of a fishing bot of some sort when Google returned no results. Well, sometime in the past weeks or so, Google stopped showing this fishing man.

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Google Product Review Updates Still Get Periodic Updates That Google May Not Announce

Just a reminder, since I am seeing this question come up often. The Google product reviews update is updated periodically, just like with core updates. Google will run them every now and then as it sees fit, so far, Google confirmed five different product review updates.

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Google Updates Animal Sound Button In Search

Back in 2016, Google Search came out with a way to hear animal sounds in the knowledge panel. Google recently updated the play sound icon or button in Google Search to make it an animated GIF of animals coming out of the play button.

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Google Dublin Stairs

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Programming Note: Rosh Hashanah 5783 - Happy & Healthy Jewish New Year

This is a programming note that Monday and Tuesday are Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and I will be offline the next two days. I will be offline Monday and Tuesday, September 26th and September 27th...

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 23, 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 a confirmed Google Ads issue that may cause serving and budget issues, and yes...

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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google's Overlapping Algorithm Updates, Product Reviews Update, Confusing HTTPS Report & Google Ads Serving Bug

In this week's video, we cover how Google said they try not to overlap search algorithm updates but then announced the rollout of the fifth product reviews update before the core update was done. We also dug into the product reviews...

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Google De-Duplicates Search Results Based On Almost Duplicates

Google's John Mueller said Google Search will de-duplicate its search results based on almost duplicates. John said this on Twitter the other day when asked about canonicalizing international URLs.

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Bing Tests Colored Sitelink Boxes

Microsoft Bing is testing background colors for the sitelinks section of the search result snippet. I am not sure I like this look but it does indeed make the sitelinks stand out a lot - what do you think?

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Google Search & Google Ads Do Not Guarantee Conversions

Google's John Mueller and Ginny Marvin said that both on the organic search side and paid search ad side, Google does not guarantee clicks will lead to conversions.

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Google Ads Bug May Prevent Some Ads From Serving

Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, posted last night that Google Ads has an issue where some ads may not be served. "Google is aware of an internal issue impacting ads serving," she wrote. She said, "the impact of this issue may prevent ads from serving in certain circumstances for your account."

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Google Europaallee Space Looks Stunning...

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 22, 2022

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What We're Seeing From The Google Product Reviews Update #5

As you know, Google began to roll out the fifth Google product reviews update on September 20th during the roll-out of the September 2022 core update. I promised to return and share some of what we're seeing with this update, as it rolls out.

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