Daily Search Forum Recap: October 31, 2022

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Vlog #195: Rick Mariano On Providing High Volume Digital Marketing Services At Low Cost

Rick Mariano is the Vice President of Digital at Hearst and he runs LocalEdge...

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GooglePlex's Parking Lot Complex Has A Pixelated Mosaic

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 28, 2022

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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Spam Update Hits Hard, Query Data Analytics Bug Fixed, Google Ads API, PMax Updates & Earnings Reports

This week, we covered how the day after Google announced the Google October 2022 spam update was done, only then did we see some really massive changes. Google fixed a month-long bug with Google Analytics 3...

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Locker Room At Google Poland

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 27, 2022

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Fun Google Wall Art

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 26, 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.

A new zero click Google study puts it only at 25%...

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Samba Dancers At Google Ireland

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 25, 2022

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Google Search Console Bug Mislabeled Many Rich Results Issues As Errors When They Were Warnings

Google has confirmed that it has relabeled many of the rich results issues in Google Search Console from "errors" to "warnings." So you may see a bunch of errors being moved to the warnings side in the Google Search Console rich results reports.

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Google Beach Chairs

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 24, 2022

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Google: Doing SEO For The Google SEO Search Documentation

There is something super funny about listening to Lizzi and John from Google talk about the Google team doing SEO on the actual SEO help documentation. It is a fun listen to and I recommend you find some time to listen to this, no need to take notes, but just listen to it.

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Confirmed: Google Ads Issue With Call Ads

Google has confirmed an issue affecting call ads within Google Ads. Google said, "the issue is specific to call ads and is affecting a subset of users."

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Google Local Panel Tests Dynamic Search Refinement Buttons

A few months ago, we spotted Google testing a dynamic search bar refinement interface in the core search results. Well, now it seems Google is testing a similar variation for the local panel interface in Google Search.

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Google Testing Explore More Visual Products Section

For the past several months Google has been testing a more visual product experience, a product grid that basically turns the search results into an e-commerce category page-like interface. Google is now testing an "explore more" grid format on top of that, after officially announcing this new visual shopping experience was live yesterday.

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Stan, The Google Dinosaur In Conical Hat & Asian Attire

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 21, 2022

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That was fast...

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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Spam Update, Site Name & Favicons, New Sponsored Ad Label and More

The Google October 2022 spam update, the first spam update since last November, started and was completed within 42 hours, I have more on that in the video. Google also has rolled out a new Site name and favicon design for the mobile search results, with new structured data...

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Third Party Appointment Services Hijacking Google Local Business Profile Panels

Google Maps and local panels have shown booking, appointment, reservation, and other ordering solutions from third parties for many years. And while we have a way to opt-out, it is still causing a lot of confusion and frustration for these small businesses.

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Google My Ad Center Rolling Out To All

Google My Ad Center is now rolling out globally to all users, giving users the ability to control the ads they see or do not see, across Google Search and Google properties. Google said you will "also be able to block sensitive ads and learn more about the information used to personalize your ad experience."

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Report: Google Reviews Being Removed From Local Business Profiles

There are numerous reports of Google doing some mass pruning and removals of reviews from the local maps results, from Google Business Profile listings. This is done every now and then, it is unclear if this is a bug or some new filter being applied to already approved reviews.

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Google Interactive Knowledge Panels In Auto-Complete Search Suggestions

We have seen Google place a lot of goodies in the search box auto-complete and search suggestions, including people also ask and other forms of answers. But remember the new interactive knowledge panel design? Google seems to be testing a version of that in the auto-complete drop-down.

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Google Colorful Reindeer

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 20, 2022

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Google Working On Resolving Some Favicons Not Showing In Search Results

Google's John Mueller confirmed that Google Search is working on an issue with some favicons not showing up properly in Google Search. The issue has been ongoing for weeks, well before the new site name and favicon release was announced, by the way.

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Google Grouping Photos By Category For Some Business Profiles

Google seems to be grouping photos together by category for some business profile local panels. So if there are several photos of the location's bathroom, Google will group those together and show how many photos they have of that category.

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Google Tests New Local Finder Design With Expanded Services Listing

Google seems to be testing a new local finder for local queries that trigger the local pack. Andy Simpson spotted this and posted some screencasts and screenshots on Twitter.

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Google Ads Performance Max Working On & Investing In Decreasing Invalid Leads

There have been some complaints about using Performance Max with Google Ads with lead generation sites. The concern is that many or some of the leads end up being invalid. Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, said Google is "working to address concerns about invalid leads and are increasing investment in preventable measures."

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Netted Google Ceiling

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 19, 2022

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Google: Search Rankings Not Controlled By Evil Outsiders

I spotted this interesting statement from Google's John Mueller on Twitter the other day. He said "In my 15 years at Google, I haven't run across a site whose ranking is secretly being controlled by outsiders. I couldn't imagine that being the case."

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Recording Video Outside The GooglePlex

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 18, 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.

Some SEO tips and lots of search interface tests below...

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GoDaddy Rep: AdSense & Analytics Improves Google Indexing But It Does Not

An individual chat support representative at GoDaddy told a knowledgeable SEO that adding Google AdSense and/or Google Analytics help with getting your content indexed by Google. John Mueller of Google said that was not true, and that someone should communicate that to the GoDaddy rep.

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Bing Tests More On This Topic From For News Sources

Microsoft Bing is testing a new feature in Bing Search in the news section of the search results. The feature is titled "more on this topic from" and it shows a list of news publication's logos that you can click on to see more news from that specific publication.

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Google Search Console Is Not Delayed More For Accounts With Lots Of Verified Profiles

Google's John Mueller said there isn't an added delay in Google Search Console reporting for those who have many verified sites in their Search Console accounts. The delays are not specific to the number of sites you have verified but just generic delays in Search Console.

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Organic Looking Google Amsterdam Cafe

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 17, 2022

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Vlog #193: Greg Finn's Contributions To The Search Marketing Community

In part one, I do a lot of bantering with Greg Finn and talk about his history in the space and the growth of his agency, Cypress North. In part two we start to talk about his contributions to the industry...

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Google Search Officially Rolls Out New Site Name & Favicon Design

Google is officially rolling out the new site name and favicon design, along with the new sponsored ad label, in the mobile search results. Yes, this is something Google has been testing and we saw this coming but now it is official and live in English, French, Japanese, and German regions.

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Official: Google Ads Rolls Out Sponsored Label

For months we have been watching Google test a new ads label in search named "Sponsored" in bold black text. Well, now it is officially live in the Google mobile search results.

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Google: There Is No Need To Use English URLs For Pages Not In English

Google's John Mueller said that there is no need to use English URLs when your pages are not in English. You can use the language of the page in your URLs, if you want. Or if you prefer, you can use English URLs - it does not matter too much he said.

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Pixel 7 Cake

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Programming Note: Offline For Simchat Torah

I will be offline completely for the holiday of Simchas Torah on October 17th and October 18th, Monday and Tuesday. Any stories published here will be scheduled and written beforehand and not posted live...

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 14, 2022

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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Webmaster Guideline Now Search Essentials, Unconfirmed Google Ranking Update, Product Reviews Transparency & More

This week, Google pushed out a revamped Google Webmaster Guidelines and renamed it the Google Search Essentials. Google also seemed to release an unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update. Google told us that the product reviews...

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Google Birthday Waffles

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 13, 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.

Google may have released another Google search ranking algorithm update...

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Unconfirmed Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Around October 13th

It has been a while since I reported on an unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update but it seems over the past 24 hours or so, we are seeing one. It probably started yesterday and is now continuing throughout today. There is some SEO chatter and the tools are now starting to light up.

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Microsoft: Half Of Bing Crawls Are New BingBot User Agent

Fabrice Canel updated us the other day that now half of all crawling Microsoft Bing does is over the new BingBot user agent. About a month ago, it was 20%, then two months prior to that it was 5%.

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Google Releasing Older Local Reviews For Some Businesses?

There are reports from some local SEOs that Google is pushing out previously held reviews in Google Maps. Some are seeing dozens, if not over a hundred reviews being posted to local business profiles in Google Maps, some dating back a year or more.

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Google Image Metadata Now Supports Image Credits

Google has added support for image credits for image metadata. Previously, image credit information was only supported with IPTC photo metadata.

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Google Business Profiles Edit Ticket Prices Feature Added

Google has added some new features around attraction and tour operators including the ability to edit your ticket prices directly in Google Business Profiles.

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Google Zurich Egg Room

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 12, 2022

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Google AdSense Adds First Party Cookie Personalization & New Blocking Controls

Google AdSense has announced support for personalization with first-party cookies and also new improvements to the blocking controls navigation.

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Google Search Adds Arrow In Knowledge Panel

Google has added an arrow button, within a circle design, in the Google Search knowledge panel section. When you click on the arrow, it takes you deeper into the entity's information within Google Search.

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Bing Launches Knowledge Panel Test Polls

A few months ago we reported seeing Microsoft Bing test polls in the knowledge panels within Bing Search. Well, Microsoft said on Twitter that this is now live and a new feature.

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YouTube Branded Speaker Wall

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 11, 2022

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Advertisers Want Mass Opt Out Of Automatically Created Assets In Google Ads

In June we reported about a beta feature in Google Ads that gives Google the ability to automatically create assets for your ads. There is an opt-out feature but there is no way to opt out in mass.

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Google Search Does Not Care If You Use Premium Plugins

Google's John Mueller said Google Search does not care one way or another if you use premium security plugins or not. The answer is, Google probably doesn't care if you use any premium plugin or not for any purpose.

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Fox At Google

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 10, 2022

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Google Adds Examples Of Types Of Product Review Pages To Help Doc

Google has added three examples of the type of product review pages and who can write them to the "how to write product reviews" help document.

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Google: Structured Data May Help Us Identify Product Reviews Content

Google has confirmed that structured data is one of the many signals the search company uses to help identify if a page has product reviews content or not. This was first said by Alan Kent of Googe and then confirmed by Danny Sullivan of Google.

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Google Dublin Bees

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Programming Note: Offline For Sukkot On Monday & Tuesday

This is just a quick note that I will be offline for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot on Monday, October 10th, and Tuesday, October 11th. All stories, social media posts, etc were pre-written and scheduled to be posted. I'll be back with live coverage Wednesday...

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 7, 2022

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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithmic Swings, Search Console Weirdness, Google Reviews Guidelines, Google Ads & More

This week, I posted the monthly Google webmaster report, an excellent place to catch up on the past month in SEO. Glenn Gabe shared some wild charts showing how Google's various search algorithms can't make up its mind about on-site quality. Google Search...

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Google Still Working On Getting Timestamps Accurate In Search Results

Google is still working on getting the timestamps accurate in the search results and news search results. Several publishers, including the Director of SEO at USA Today and the SEO Editor for WSJ complained about the inaccurate timestamps in Google Search the other day.

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Google: Searching Visually Is Rare In Many Areas

John Mueller of Google said on Twitter the other day that "in many areas, searching visually is rare." Meaning, that most of your traffic likely does not come from Google Image Search or other methods of visual search, like Google Lens or Multisearch, but rather typical web searches.

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Google Stan Dinosaur Dressed Up For???

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 6, 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.

Google Search Console's Google Analytics 3 integration may be broken...

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Video Of A Crane Loading Equipment At Google Zurich

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Google Search Console Performance Report Missing Data On September 21st

Google has confirmed that some data may be missing in the Google Search Console Search Performance report on September 21, 2022. If you log in and view that report, you should see an annotation on that day, that explained more.

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Large Google Exercise Ball

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Google Search "More Hotels" Grid Layout

Google Search now has a grid layout option labeled "more hotels." This is even when Google shows the hotel listings sections, other hotel listings, explore more hotels, and now also this "more hotels" four grid layout.

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Google Shopping Chat Feature On Product Results

Google Shopping seems to be testing or maybe has launched a new chat feature in the product search results. I personally cannot replicate this at the time I am writing this but Saad AK spotted this and posted a screenshot on Twitter.

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Google Business Profiles Removes Health & Safety Attributes

In September 2020, Google added a new section for "health and safety" attributes to Google Business Profiles (formerly Google My Business). Those remained as an option until last week, Google removed those health and safety attributes late last week.

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Google Business Profile Suspensions Spiking

There seems to be a much higher level of Google Business Profiles suspended in the past couple of weeks than one would typically see. So a higher number of businesses set up in Google Maps are being suspended and removed from the Google local search results.

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Google Pier 57 Event With Large Games

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