Daily Search Forum Recap: June 30 2023

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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Ranking Volatility Pinging Google Sitemaps Bing Index Coverage AI Search Local & PPC

This week in search, we had yet another week of heated Google search ranking volatility without a confirmed Google search ranking update. Google said it would drop the Ping endpoints for Google Sitemaps later this year. Some are seeing the new index...

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Google Map Your Summer Booth

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 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.

Yep, we are seeing yet another heated Google search ranking algorithm update that has come...

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Google Search Product Pricing Graph Over 3-Months

Google is testing showing the price fluctuations of a product in a graph over a three-month period in the search results. We saw product pricing sliders but this is on a graph to show pricing changes over that time period.

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Google Rich Testing Tools Drop Down Selector Now Shows URL Inspection Tool

Google has updated the Google Rich Results test to spell out that the test is coming from the Google URL Inspection tool. This update probably happened when added the new Google-InspectionTool useragent to the crawler list back in May.

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Microsoft: Bing Chat Slow Rollouts Are Random To Reduce Bias

Bing, and other software companies, like Google, tend to roll out new features slowly. So they might roll out a new feature first to 1% of users, then 10%, then 50% and then eventually 100% of users. This rollout is done randomly to reduce bias, Microsoft Bing's Mikhail Parakhin said on Twitter.

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Bing Search Answer Panel Adds Interactive Reaction Emojis

Bing Search lets searchers interact with some of the right bar answer panels using emojis. If you search for [barack obama] and look at the side bar, you will see the option to react to some of the answers given using emojis.

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Google Indoor Camp Trailer

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 28 2023

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Google Ads May Disapprove Ads For Using Third-Party Click Tracking

Google has posted an update that says it may disapprove some ads for using third-party click-tracking services that are not on their approved list. Google said this currently only applies if you start using these click-tracking services after the week of August 28th.

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Indoor Google Bike

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 27 2023

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Google's Ads Liaison Gives Explainer On Value Based Bidding

Ginny Marvin, Google's Ads Liaison, posted a Twitter thread with an explainer on Google Ads value-based bidding, VBB. Ginny wrote, "We've had lots of questions & heard some misconceptions about value-based bidding (VBB) recently. This week, I'll be sharing info & resources about VBB & answering any questions you've got at the end of the week."

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Google To Drop Support For Sitemaps Ping Endpoints In 6-Months

Google announced it would end support for Sitemaps ping endpoints in six months. Google said this is because they are "not very useful" and the "vast majority of the submissions lead to spam."

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Google Tests Larger Product Images For Search Snippets Again

Google is once again testing larger product images in the search results for specific search results snippets. This is not the product grid results, but the product images on the side of the search result snippets.

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Google Analytics 4 Dropping Many Attribution Models

A Google Analytics expert, Charles Farina spotted that Google Analytics 4, which had tracking for many attribution models, keeps reducing the specific attribution cases you can track. We are now down to just access last click and data-driven attribution.

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Google Knowledge Panels Gets Small Update For Newsy Topics

It looks like Google is rolling out a small update for knowledge panels in the mobile search results with more card-like results and a larger card at the top and also summary cards.

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Google Search Champion Event

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 26 2023

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With A Few Days Left Are Search Marketers Ready For GA4

This coming Friday, June 30, 2023, will be the last day Google Analytics's Universal Analytics 3 collects new data. The deadline is not being pushed off and you either switch to GA4, Google Analytics 4, find some alternative analytics package or not track at all.

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Outdoor Rainbow Staircase At Google Brazil

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 23 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 exploded this morning in terms of volatility but still...

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Google Search Ranking Volatility Exploding Today - Where Is The Confirmed Algorithm Update?

So it's been well over a week of incredible volatility within the Google search results. Pages have been bouncing all over the place, rankings are jumping and then last night and today we are seeing even hotter temperatures from the Google tracking tools and more chatter from within the SEO industry.

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Google Pride Float In Tel Aviv

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 22 2023

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Google Ads Automatically Created Assets For Performance Max Campaigns

Google Ads seems to be testing the Automatically created assets setting for Performance Max campaigns. And Google Ads is replacing the "Final URL expansion" setting for some accounts, as well.

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Google Site Kit Booth At WordCamp Europe Conference With Familiar Faces

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 21 2023

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Google Analytics 4 Adds Google Ads Conversion Credit Selection Eligibility

Google Analytics announced that you can now select which channels are eligible to receive conversion credit for web conversions shared with Google Ads. The default channel is Google paid channels, but you can select Paid and organic channels.

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Google Mobile Search Results With Business Profile Listing & Reviews Broken Out Separately

Google mobile search results can show the Google Business Profile listing in one section and the reviews later down in another section. I am pretty sure I've seen this on and off over the past year or so, but I can't find my coverage of it.

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Microsoft: Bing Image Creator Will See Big Improvements In A Month

Bing Image Creator will get some big improvements in about a month. Microsoft Bing CEO, Mikhail Parakhin said this on Twitter the other day, saying the language model for Bing Image Creator will get a big update. He said...

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INP Core Web Vitals Report Now Live In Google Search Console

Google has just launched the new INP report within the Core Web Vitals reporting in Google Search Console. As a reminder, INP, Interaction to Next, is replacing FID, First Input Delay, in March 2024. To prepare, Google has launched a new report to show you how your site(s) are performing for that metric.

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Google Ads Brings Store Sales Reporting & Bidding To Performance Max Campaigns

Google announced that store sales reporting and bidding are now available across Performance Max Campaigns within Google Ads. This means advertisers can "measure total sales wherever customers prefer to shop and optimize their bids for in-store revenue," Google explained.

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Google Boulder Office Mountain Views

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 20 2023

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Bing Chat goes a significant performance improvement...

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Google Price Range Product Slider With Store Names

Google is now showing the product price range slider with a store name overlayed. I know the slider is not new, it shows you the price range of that product that Google tracked. But the store name overlay, might be new.

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Bodhran Band At Google

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 19 2023

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Google's search result volatility is not cooling down...

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Study: Removing The Address In Google Business Profiles Will Make Your Local Rankings Drop

A recent small study by Joy Hawkins showed that if you remove the address from your Google Business Profile listings your rankings in the local pack and in Google Maps will significantly suffer.

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Google Salsa Dancing Class

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 16 2023

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How Google Search Handles 103 Early Hints HTTP Server Response

Gary Illyes from Google posted information on how Google Search handles the 103 early hints HTTP server status response. He said, "Googlebot will ignore the 103 and wait for the subsequent response."

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UN Members At Google Pier 57 Office (On AI Topics)

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 15 2023

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Google's New Search Quality Feedback Form

Google has released a new spam or as they call it, search quality feedback form. This form allows you to submit feedback around not just spam but paid links, malicious behavior, low quality, and other search quality issues.

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Google Floor Compass

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 14 2023

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Cowpacalypse & Google's Peter The Greeter

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 13 2023

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Beta Google Ads Broad Match Keywords Campaign Setting To Drop Match Types

Google Ads seems to have launched a beta campaign setting named "broad match keywords." It seems this setting removes the match types, specifically phrase and exact match keywords and converts them into broad match.

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Futuristic Google Train

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 12, 2023

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Google Finally Launches The Perspectives Search Filter

Google has finally launched the perspectives filter in the Google mobile search results. There is a ton of confusion around what perspectives is because Google has released or tested a number of search features over the past year, but the perspectives search filter is now live, the one Google demoed at I/O.

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Google Search Console Improved Video Indexing Reporting

Google has released a Search Console update to improve the video indexing reporting. Google said this will provide you with more specific issues with clear actions to help you make your videos more prominent on Google Search.

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The SEO Conch House Story: Scrapped Amazon Content That Ranked Incredibly In Google Search

Matt Diggity interviewed the two of the six people who ran Conch-House.com, site that completely dominated the Google search results for a couple of months. In short, they posted 6,000 posts per day by scrapping review content from Amazon. The site grew to 6 million users and $19,000 per day within one month but the site was penalized by Google and no longer ranks now.

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Fancy Donuts At The GooglePlex

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 9, 2023

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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Ranking Update, Google Ads Trademark Policy Change, SGE 2X Faster & Tons Of SEO Topics

This week we had yet another unconfirmed Google search ranking update in the middle of the week. The Google Search Generative Experience AI snapshot answers are now twice as fast. Most SEOs seem unimpressed by the new Google Search Generative...

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Google: Multiple Navigation Menus Has No Impact On Your SEO Performance

Google's Gary Illyes said in an SEO office hours video that having multiple navigation menus will have no impact on your SEO performance. That means no positive or negative impact on your SEO performance.

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US To Get Google News Showcase & Updated Google News Follow Tab

Google announced a few news-related updates, including that the Google News Showcase is finally coming to US news publishers, an updated follow tab in the Google News app, and survey features in Google Reader Revenue Manager.

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Google Search Generative Experience Gets Quality Updates & Major Speed Boost

Google has released its first set of quality updates to the new Search Generative Experience that began to rollout a few weeks ago. The most noticeable update is that it is much faster, in fact, twice as fast, in responding with an AI-generated snapshot/answer.

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Google Ads Industry Wide Blocks For Trademarks Going Away July 24

Google is updated its Google Ads trademark policies to do away with the ability to have industry-wide blocks for trademarked terms. Instead, you will need to do this on the specific advertiser level.

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Peter The Greeter & Android Mascot Together At Google

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 8, 2023

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Google Ads API version 14 is out...

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Google Ads API Version 14 Now Available

Google has released a major release for its Google Ads API, version 14. Version 14 brings new recommendation types, account-level negative keywords, offline conversion, GA4 data, and much more.

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Turkish Googlers Event In Dublin

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 7, 2023

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Bing Search Tests Short Search Menu With Fewer Options

Microsoft Bing Search is testing showing fewer options in the search bar menu below the search box. We saw this with Bing Image search before and now we are seeing this with Bing web search.

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Cool Space & Door At Google Boulder Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 6, 2023

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Seems like there is a Google search ranking algorithm update going on now, it's not confirmed by Google...

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Google Ads Advertiser Console Currently Down

The Google Ads interface and advertising console is currently down. It has been down for the past 40 minutes or so, going down a bit after 9am ET.

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Google Ads With Sync Columns & Segments Across MCC Accounts

Google Ads now lets advertisers sync columns and segments across the same or different accounts, using MCC accounts. There is this option to let you choose which account to apply your preferences from in the Google Ads dashboard.

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Google View In 3D Product Results With QR Code To View On Mobile

The other day we reported that Google was showing 3D product images not just on mobile search but on desktop. Now, Google is testing showing a QR code that the searcher can scan with their mobile phone so they can quickly see the product in 3D, since that is hard to do on desktop devices.

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Google Caviar

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 5, 2023

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Bing Chat increased its limits...

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Google Working On AdSense & Google Analytics 4 Link

Google posted an update that it is currently working on linking your Google AdSense account with your Google Analytics 4 property as it offers with Universal Analytics 3.

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Google: Don't Pick Cheap Domain On TLDs Overrun With Spam

Google's John Mueller said on Reddit, when it comes to SEO, do not pick a cheap domain on a TLD that is overrun with spam. The question that was asked was, "Does it matter for SEO if my site is .com / .site /or any other?"

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Google Featured Snippets Tests Define Option On Words

Google is testing the ability to click on a word in a featured snippet within Google Search and define that word. You can also copy the word, if you want. I think this is a Google Search test and maybe not a Chrome test.

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Google Business Profiles Now Display Long Form Videos

Google Business Profile listings in the Google mobile search results never showed videos in the image portion of the listing that were longer than 30 seconds. Now, it seems Google is showing 30 second or longer videos for some of those listings in mobile search.

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Bing Chat Increased Limits, Added More Travel Visuals & Expanded Bing Image Creator

Bing Chat now can handle 30 chat turns per conversation, up from 20, and a total of 300 chats per day. Also, the travel results can be more visual and Bing Image Creator works in all chat modes, not just "creative."

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Looking Bad Near Bad Looking Android Statue (Bad As In Good)

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 2, 2023

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Google may be rolling out a new featured snippet style...

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Google Search Generative Experience Results Are Not Really Personalized

Google's all-new search engine, the Search Generative Experience, which began to rollout for some, is really not more personalized than what you get from Google's traditional search results. Google is currently not offering a more personalized search result set or AI generative answer based on who you are.

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"A Home Away From Home" Mural In Google NYC

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 1, 2023

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Google Search Adds More Detailed Car Comparison Tools

Google keeps expanding its car search features, threatening the Edmunds and car websites out there. Here you can see Google showing you car comparison tools and charts to help you pick the best car for your needs.

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Googler In Training Baby Clothing Gift

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