Daily Search Forum Recap: November 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.

There may have been another Google algorithm update or adjustment on Friday...

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Microsoft Advertising Performance Max Import Tool Upgraded

Microsoft Advertising announced a few upgrades to the Google Ads Performance Max import tool before the holiday season. Most of it is around importing Performance Max campings that use a Merchant Center but not all.

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Google: No, Your Website Doesn't Need 200,000 Words To Be Considered Authoritative

Google's John Mueller said a website does not need to have 200,000 words to be considered authoritative. This comes after a Twitter thread said "You need around 200,000 words on your website to be considered authoritative by Google." John replied, "I don't know who made up that 200,000-word number, it's definitely not from Google."

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Googlers Host Off Site Ranch Retreat

Google Offsite Ranch Retreat

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 28, 2022

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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Spam Update Hits Hard, Query Data Analytics Bug Fixed, Google Ads API, PMax Updates & Earnings Reports

This week, we covered how the day after Google announced the Google October 2022 spam update was done, only then did we see some really massive changes. Google fixed a month-long bug with Google Analytics 3...

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Locker Room At Google Poland

Google Locker Room

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 27, 2022

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Fun Google Wall Art

Fun Google Wall Art

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 26, 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.

A new zero click Google study puts it only at 25%...

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Samba Dancers At Google Ireland

Google Samba Dancers

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 25, 2022

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Google Search Console Bug Mislabeled Many Rich Results Issues As Errors When They Were Warnings

Google has confirmed that it has relabeled many of the rich results issues in Google Search Console from "errors" to "warnings." So you may see a bunch of errors being moved to the warnings side in the Google Search Console rich results reports.

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Google Beach Chairs

Google Beach Chair

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 24, 2022

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Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update On October 22, A Day After The Spam Update Finished.

So we had Google confirm that the October 2022 spam update finished Friday morning, the morning of October 21st. The tracking tools and chatter were somewhat mild but that makes sense for a spam update. But the day after, on Saturday, October 22nd, I am seeing renewed chatter and the tools are showing much bigger swings in the Google search rankings.

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Google: Doing SEO For The Google SEO Search Documentation

There is something super funny about listening to Lizzi and John from Google talk about the Google team doing SEO on the actual SEO help documentation. It is a fun listen to and I recommend you find some time to listen to this, no need to take notes, but just listen to it.

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Confirmed: Google Ads Issue With Call Ads

Google has confirmed an issue affecting call ads within Google Ads. Google said, "the issue is specific to call ads and is affecting a subset of users."

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Google Local Panel Tests Dynamic Search Refinement Buttons

A few months ago, we spotted Google testing a dynamic search bar refinement interface in the core search results. Well, now it seems Google is testing a similar variation for the local panel interface in Google Search.

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Google Testing Explore More Visual Products Section

For the past several months Google has been testing a more visual product experience, a product grid that basically turns the search results into an e-commerce category page-like interface. Google is now testing an "explore more" grid format on top of that, after officially announcing this new visual shopping experience was live yesterday.

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Stan, The Google Dinosaur In Conical Hat & Asian Attire

Google Dinosaur In Conical Hat & Asian Attire

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 21, 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.

That was fast...

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