Daily Search Forum Recap: September 29, 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 launched a new user agent to let you block your content from Bard or other AI Google projects...

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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google September Helpful Content Update Done, SGE Updates, Links Not A Top Ranking Factor, Bing Hiding Ads & Google�s 25th Birthday

This week in search, Google finished rolling out the September 2023 helpful content update, which seemed to target SEO-first, search engine-first content in a big way. Google won't be rolling back that update, if you were wondering...

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Google Ads VP Emails Chrome & Search Team For Ranking Tweaks & Query Injections From Chrome

A new email was leaked as part of the DOJ investigation, this was was from Jerry Dischler, the Vice President of Google Ads. The email was to Prabhakar Raghavan, who leads up all of search including Google Search and Google Ads but also to the leads of the Chrome team.

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Human Art At Google

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 28, 2023

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Google September 2023 Helpful Content Completed Rolling Out - Targeting SEO-First Content

Google, at around 3 am ET this morning, announced that the September 2023 Google helpful content update has finished rolling out. It took about 14 days, starting on September 14, 2023, and completing today on September 28, 2023. This update really went after SEO-first content, which is why the SEO community is so heated about this specific update.

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Google Search Central Swag - Water Bottle, Hat, T-Shirt, Notepads, etc

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 27, 2023

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Google 25th Birthday Cappuccino - 25

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 26, 2023

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The Ultimate Cookie Recipe At The GooglePlex

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 24, 2023

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Programming Note: Offline Monday For Yom Kippur 5784

This is just a programming note that I will be 100% offline starting Sunday night (September 24th) through Monday night (September 25th) for Yom Kippur. I am not scheduling any stories on Yom Kippur...

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Google: Removing Content Doesn't Make The Other Content Rank Higher

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that removing content doesn't make the rest of your content rank higher. He said, "keep in mind that removing content doesn't make the rest rank higher."

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Google Cloud Swag Mug

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 22, 2023

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Google's Helpful Content Update Doesn't Target Third-Party Hosted Content Yet

When the September 2023 Google helpful content update came out, Google added new information to its documentation around this update. One thing was specific to this documentation change was around hosted third-party content. But Gary Illyes from Google said at PubCon last night that it was not yet implemented into the actual algorithm.

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Google Irvine Office's Eat/Play Area

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 21, 2023

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Theories On Why The Google Tracking Tools Show Calm Volatility & Weather

If you've been following my Google helpful content update volatility story, you will notice that the Google tracking tools are showing very little volatility when the SEO chatter is super heated. Generally when there is a lot of SEO chatter, the aggregate tools show heated volatility - but not with this helpful content update.

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Google Maps User Contributed Policy Fake Engagement & Personal Information Updated

Google has made two updates to its prohibited and restricted content policy for Google Maps user-contributed content. The impacted sections are the fake engagement and personal information sections. Here is what was added.

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Talk Like A Pirate Day Event At GooglePlex

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 20, 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.

It's been about six days now since the Google helpful content update started rolling out, it's been a weird one...

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Google Site Names Issues Continue For News Tab?

Last week we reported that the Google site names issues, according to Google, has massively dropped off, after the last big upgrade to site names in Google Search. Well, that might not be the case for the Google news tab.

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Google Bikes On Google Wall

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