I often post about Google ranking volatility and search ranking algorithm updates but I rarely post about them on a weekend. But I just had to this Sunday morning; the tools are literally all reporting massive and explosive volatility this weekend and the SEO chatter is also very high.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 14, 2023
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
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Google Search Practice Speaking Feature For Specific Countries
Google Search seems to be testing a new feature to help searchers learn to speak in English (and maybe other languages). It is called Practice Speaking and can be triggered in some countries, such as India.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 13, 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's search results are super-heated again...
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Google Search To Release New Improvements To Site Names
Google is going to release its second batch up improvements for Site names in the search results "in the near future," Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison said.
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Poll Shows We're Using Google Search Generative Experience Less Often
The new Google Search Generative Experience started to roll out to some users in late May but we are already seeing a decline in usage for these generative AI search features.
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Google Bard Gains New Features & Available To More Users
Just when updates to Google Bard were getting stale, Google announced a boatload of new things for its generative AI tool, Bard. In short, Google added several new features to Bard and expanded access to Bard to "most of the world" and many languages.
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Google Search Tests Snippets With Translation Drop Downs
Google is testing translating search results snippets with a "Translated by Google" drop-down feature under that specific search result snippet. It shows you that Google can translate the result from one language to another if you click to expand the feature.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 12, 2023
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
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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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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
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
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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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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 7 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'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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