Google Doodle For Seasonal Holidays 2022

Google has posted its "Seasonal Holidays" Google Doodle for the month of December - the holiday month. Google did this last year as well, and while the past few days we had some other special Doodles on Google's home page, when those Doodles came off, Google put up this Season Holidays Doodle up.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 2, 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.

Just saying today is the 19th year anniversary of this site...

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Hollywood Mirror at Google Office

Google Hollywood Mirror

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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 1, 2022

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Google Improved The Search Console Discover Performance Report

Google has annotated the Discover performance report in Google Search Console, saying the report has been improved. Specifically, Google said it improved the system for counting clicks and impressions within Google Discover.

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Massive Google Maps Hallway At Pier 57

Google Maps Hallway

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 30, 2022

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Google says again, but more strongly...

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Google: We Have Algorithms To Detect & Demote AI Altered Plagiarized Content

Duy Nguyen from Google's search quality team said in the Google office hours video that Google has "algorithms to go after" those who post AI plagiarized content, he the algorithms can "demote site scraping content from other sites."

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Google Has An Indoor Merry-Go-Round

Google Merry-Go-Round

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 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.

Got a lot of local SEO stuff for you, including longer...

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Google Business Profiles Now Showing Review Time For Some Edits

Google may now show you the time it takes to review a requested edit in Google Business Profiles. So if you edit, let's say, your business category, Google may show you that this type of edit takes about 10 minutes to be reviewed by someone at Google.

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Google Tests Carousel Format For Things To Know

Google is testing the Things to know search refinement expander feature in a carousel format. Normally, the Things to know is in this list format but here Google is testing it in a carousel format.

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Lizzi Sassman's Dog Co-Stars With John Mueller In Google Video

Lizzi Sassman's Dog Co-Stars With John Mueller In Google Video

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 28, 2022

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So Many SEOs Just Don't Know Guest Post Links Should Be Nofollowed

The other day, I covered a poll that showed about half of SEOs still use guest posting for SEO purposes. Then a few days later, an SEO asked John Mueller about something and John told him that the guest post links should be nofollowed, and the SEO was shocked.

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Bing Tests Favicons In Front Of People Also Ask

Microsoft Bing is testing placing a favicon or icon of some sort in front of the people also ask results. The screenshot example below is from Frank Standtmann, a German-based SEO, who showed Wikipedia and other sites' favicon being placed before the people also ask results in Bing's search results.

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Google: There Is No SEO Compliance Score

Google's Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, said there is no such thing as an SEO compliance score from Google. He said instead think about avoiding technical errors, don't spam, and use best practices for your content.

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New Google Glass Structure With Stained Glass At GooglePlex

New Google Glass Structure At GooglePlex

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 25, 2022

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Google Tests New People Also Ask User Interface

Google is testing a new design, layout, and user experience for the people also ask box in the Google Search results. This interface has results side by side and stacked on top and then when you click on a result, it loads the answer in a shaded box.

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Google Business Profiles Now Offering Suggested Services Areas

When you create a Google Business Profile and now go into creating service areas, Google may now offer you a list of suggested service areas in your region. Just be careful because these suggested service areas are based on your current location, not the location of the business.

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Matt Cutts Fought With Sergey Brin & Larry Page On That Google Search Can Be Spammed

Some of you may know that in the early days of Google, Google's co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page would say Google Search was immune to search spam. Matt Cutts, the former Google search spam lead, said recently on Reddit that he actually had to fight with the co-founders to prove that Google was indeed spammable.

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Gary Illyes Eating Japanese Dishes

Gary Illyes Eating Japanese Food

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 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.

Can you believe it, many SEOs are still doing guest posts for links. Google's John Mueller spoke about subdomains, yes...

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Google Discover Changes "More Recommendations" Label To "More Products" Signaling Deeper Push Into Shopping And E-commerce

In March, I wrote a post about "More recommendations" being surfaced in Google Discover. The call to action would show up after researching products in Google Search and would lead to a "task dashboard" containing a boatload of content that helps users continue researching products (including articles, video, product comparison functionality, and more).

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