Daily Search Forum Recap: January 31, 2023

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John Mueller & Daniel Waisberg Biking Near Google Tel Aviv

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 30, 2023

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Vlog #208: Jeff Ferguson On Starting His Own Digital Marketing Agency

In part one, we go through Jeff Ferguson's long history in search marketing. Here, in part two, we pick up with him starting his own agency...

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Google Ads News & Feature Announcements Dry Up

The Google Ads team has not posted a new feature announcement or any new announcements on its new features and announcements page for about two and a half months, since November 17, 2022, and any Google Ads policy updates since mid-December.

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Display Wall At Google Pier 57

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 27, 2023

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Google Ads now supports negative keywords on the account level. SEOs trust YMYL content less if AI writes it...

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Gary Illyes: Google Search Handles marquee Tags Appropriately

Gary Illyes, from the Google Search Relations team, said on LinkedIn that Google Search handles the marquee HTML tag "appropriately." What does it mean by appropriately? That is Gary for you.

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Google Cotton Candy Machine In London

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 26, 2023

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Google Publishes A New SEO Case Study, This One From Vimeo On Video SEO

A couple of weeks after I said I thought Google would stop publishing SEO case studies, Google just published a new one. This one is on How Vimeo improved video SEO for their customers, specifically by using the indexifembedded rule combined with noindex and adding structured data.

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Google Golf Tee Shirt By Google Designer

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 25, 2023

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Google is being sued by the DOJ again over alleged monopolistic actions...

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DOJ Sues Google Again To Break Up Its Ad Business Over Monopolistic Actions

The big news out of yesterday was that the US Department of Justice and several states has once again sued Google calling for the breakup of its ad tech business that allegedly monopolizes the US ad market. Google of course does not agree with this action.

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Google Kirkland Lit Up Crazy Like A Fox Wall

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 24, 2023

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Report: Google Pushing Advertisers To Use Agencies & Third Party Resellers

Digiday reported that with the mass Google layoffs, Google advertisers are being encouraged to work with third-party resellers, like agencies, directly as it seeks to reduce its overheads related to advertising services.

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YouTube Swing At Google London

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 23, 2023

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There may have been a Bing Search ranking algorithm update...

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Google Ads Outages Impacting Many Advertisers

Google has confirmed outages across the Google Ads network, including Google Ads for Search, Google Ads for other surfaces and many of the Google Ads management projects, like Search Ads 360, Display and Video 360 and Campaign Manager 360.

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Vlog #207: Jeff Ferguson's History In The Search Marketing Space

Jeff Ferguson is the CEO of Amplitude Digital, and he has been in the search space for a really long time. He is also an Adjunct Professor at UCLA. In part one, we went through his long career in this space...

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Google: No Preference Between Connected Structured Data In Graph Array Or Disconnected Individual Elements

Google's John Mueller was asked if there is a Google SEO preference to having your structured data connected in some graph or node array versus having them as individual elements in their own blocks on the page. John said that Google has no preference.

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Google BBQ At The GooglePlex In The Winter

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 20, 2023

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Space Helmet Date Wall At Google Hyderabad Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 19, 2023

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Google Ads Rolling Out Performance Max Experiments

Google is rolling out Performance Max experiments in Google Ads today. We knew this would come and now, I think for the first time but I might be wrong, we are seeing some advertisers gain access to this.

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Green Google Singapore Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 18, 2023

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Google: Google Quality Updates Can Impact Crawling & Indexing

Google's John Mueller said again that its quality updates, like core updates and the others in the family, can not just impact the ranking of a page in Google Search but also how Google crawls and if Google decides to index that page.

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Google Maps Tests Business Photo In Round Map Pin

Google is testing displaying a round map pin that has a business photo in the pin itself. This is supposedly working on some Google Maps devices when you request directions.

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Singapore Google Product Expert Summit

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 17, 2023

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Google Local Check Wait Time Button

Google is testing a "check wait time" button for some local results in the Google search results. I guess this tells you how long you have to wait to receive service from the local business, like a restaurant.

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Google New York City Inside Green Beach Chairs

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 16, 2023

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Google Business Profile Image Server Rejected Upload Bug

Late last week, Google Business Profiles had a bug where uploading images to your business profile would fail. This was reported first by Tim Capper on Twitter on Thursday and the issue continued in through the weekend.

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Doogler In A Bag

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 13, 2023

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Google's Helpful Content & Link Spam Updates Done Rolling Out On January 12th

After a long slow and paused rollout, Google has said that both the December 2022 helpful content update and December 2022 link spam update are now done rolling out. Google said both completed rolling out on Thursday, January 12, 2023.

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Local SEOs: Check Your Photos In Your Google Maps Pin Overlay

Mike Blumenthal dropped a simple but thoughtful local SEO tip that all businesses should do some time in the near future. Just check the featured photos that Google selected to be displayed in your Google Maps pin overlay.

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Google Premier Partner Awards Event

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 12, 2023

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Google Says Writing SEO Case Studies Are Quite Challenging

Google has this SEO case studies and success stories page since 2019 and they have updated it a few times, I believe, since. Recently, someone Mariachiara Marsella asked John Mueller if Google can add new case studies.

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Doogler On Google Rocket

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 11, 2023

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Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Kicking Off Or Tail-End To Helpful Content & Link Spam Updates?

I see signals, both in terms of SEO chatter and some of the Google Search tracking tools, of more volatility in the Google Search results. The volatility is algorithm update levels and can either be a new Google search ranking algorithm update or it can be the tail-end of the ongoing December 2022 Google helpful content update and link spam updates.

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Google Throne Chair

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 10, 2023

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Google Nature Dublin Sign

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 9, 2023

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Google Site Name Documentation Clarifies M-Dot & WWW Are Considered Domain-Level

Google has once again updated the relatively new documentation around Site Names in Google Search, this time to clarify that www and m-dot prefixes for domain names are generally considered root domain names for Site Names in Google Search.

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Another Doogler Google Badge

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 6, 2023

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Google Striped Socks

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 5, 2023

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Google Search Research Paper Says SEO Practices Tends To Be Very Low Quality

A Google research paper named Generative Models are Unsupervised Predictors of Page Quality paints a negative connotation of SEO practices. It has a section named "attempts at search engine optimization (SEO)" which says, "documents that attempt to perform SEO tend to be flagged as very low quality."

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Google Ads Remove Redundant Keywords Recommendation Now Applies Across Match Types

Google has sent out email notifications to some Google Ads advertisers about changes happening to the remove redundant keywords recommendations. In short, Google is expanding this recommendation to work across match types.

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360 Photo Booth Tech At Google Office Party

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 4, 2023

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Google URL Inspection Tool Referring Page Can Show Nofollow Links But It's Rare Say John Mueller

Google's John Mueller said it is possible that Google Search Console's URL inspection tool can show a nofollowed link as the referring page but he also said it is rare. It does make you question if Google holds by the nofollow as a very strict hint or not but John said we are "too focused on links."

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Google Toothpicks Signage

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 3, 2023

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Ongoing Report: Google Search Console Not Tracking All Local Pack Clicks

For the past few months or so, I've been tracking reports that suggest that Google Search Console is not properly tracking clicks and impressions from the local pack. This first came up in September and after numerous requests from SEOs, I have not seen a serious reply from Google on the matter, not yet at least.

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Google Search Full Coverage Label On Desktop

Google since 2019 had this "full coverage" label for news stories that showed up in mobile search results. I am not sure if this ever was presented in the desktop results, and that is what we have for you today.

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Google: We Ignore Hidden Text On A Page

Google's John Mueller said that when it comes to hidden text on a page, Google is "good at ignoring it." It is one of those things that Google seems not to penalize for anymore but rather just not count the text that is not visible on the page.

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Study: Reviews With Photos Last Longer In Google Local Results

Another small study says that reviews with photos with them last a lot longer in the Google local listing for a business than reviews without photos. This was another study done by Joy Hawkins and her company.

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Google Outdoor Holiday Decorations In Brazil

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 2, 2023

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I hope you all had a nice new year...

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Google: Page Numbers In Titles Of Paginated Pages Does Not Help With SEO

Alan Kent from Google in the latest Google SEO office hours said that putting page numbers in your title tags for your paginated pages does not help much with SEO. He said, "including the page number in your information about a page will have little effect."

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Wood Structure At Google Kirkland

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