Daily Search Forum Recap: July 12, 2023

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Google Search Explore Section Gains Ads

Google's explore section, which we first found a year ago and is now live for all, now seems to be showing Google Ads or sponsored listings. I have not seen ads in the Explore section before, maybe I missed it, but now they are showing for some people.

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YouTube Shopping Cart At Google's Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 11, 2023

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 big indexing bug with Google News...

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Google Ads Circumventing Systems Policy Update

Google Ads will be updating its generic Circumventing Systems policy this month. The change will "clarify that the policy prohibits repeated and simultaneous policy violations across any of your accounts, including using two or more accounts to post ads that violate any Google Ads policy," Google posted.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 8 2023

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Google Details SEO Guidance For Content Syndication Partners

Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison, posted a Twitter thread, with slides from a presentation he prepared for an AOP event in London back in May around SEO and Google guidance for content syndication partners.

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Google: Our Core SEO Advice Has Not Changed In Two Decades

Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison, posted that Google's core advice around how to rank well in Google Search has not changed in two decades. Google showed a screenshot of its advice from 2002 where it wrote, "Make pages for users, not for search engines."

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Google Business Profiles Drops Call Tracking Features

Google has removed the call tracking feature from Google Business Profiles. Supposedly this was a very buggy feature that would not work well and sometimes send calls to the wrong number.

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Google Search Console Notifying About INP Core Web Vitals Issues

Google began to send out email notifications about the new INP, Interaction to Next, core web vitals report recently. I believe Google started to send them out shortly after the report went live in Search Console.

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Google Cloud Le-Go Event

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 7 2023

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Google's search results are on fire, but yet...

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Google To Work On Complementary Robots.txt Protocols For AI & More

Google announced last night that it is looking to develop a complementary protocol to the 30-year-old robots.txt protocol. This is because of all the new generative AI technologies Google and other companies are releasing.

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Bing Tests Search Result Listing Branded Side Labels

Bing is now testing showing branded side labels next to each search result listing. We saw earlier more basic side labels and before that branded side bars for some search queries. I am also seeing favicons on the side of the snippets. Bing is always very busy testing these things.

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Google Ireland Dance Class On International Music Day

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 6 2023

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Google: It Doesn't Matter If You Use Blog Folders For URLs & We're Not Wrong

Google's John Mueller said it doesn't matter either way if you put your blog posts on a subfolder of /blog or just on the root directory of the site, without the /blog.

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Google Orchestra Gets Guinness World Records

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 5 2023

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Bing Chat To Allow You Not To Search The Web (No-Search)

Bing Chat will be adding a feature to tell it not to search the web for an answer. Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing Search at Microsoft, said on Twitter, "#nosearch is coming" when asked if Bing Chat can exclude web search results from the answers.

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Google's John Mueller: No Ranking Factor Compensates For Missing Relevance

Google's John Mueller has another good one-liner about SEO and Google ranking. He said on Mastodon, "No ranking factor compensates missing relevance, or missing user interest."

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Google Bard Gets On Jeopardy TV Show

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 3 2023

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Google Search Generative Experience Shows Local Store Inventory

Did you know that the new Google Search Generative Experience that launched to us a month ago shows nearby stores that have products in stock directly in the generative AI answer. This might not be new, but based on my early tests, I don't believe I've seen Google SGE show "Stores," and I definitely didn't cover that they did.

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