Friday, April 28, 2023

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 27, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

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Google Analytics To Show UA3 Data For A Year After It Stops Collecting Data On July 1, 2023

Google has shared more details on its upcoming deadline for when Universal Analytics 3 will be turning down. The new information is that you will be able to access, report and export your historical data in UA3 for a year after Google stops collecting data in that platform, so until July 1, 2024.

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Many SEOs Are Worried About Their Jobs Since Generative AI & AI Search

With generative AI and the new AI search features, we are not only able to use some generative AI tools to create excellent content, but how searchers access information is on the verge of changing. This is causing some concern and fear within the SEO industry.

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Google Recording Sessions For Upcoming Google I/O

Google Recording Sessions For Upcoming Google I/O

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Thursday, April 27, 2023

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 27, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

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Google Texting Businesses To Validate Google Business Profile Information

Google may be sending text messages to business owners to verify that the information they have listed in their Google Business Profile is accurate and up-to-date. This text comes from a confirmed Google phone number, but some local SEOs are worried that this is not really coming from Google.

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Google Easter Cakes

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Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 26, 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...

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Bing Chat Reduces Disengagement By Over 3X For Most Egregious Category

Microsoft has reduced the number of disengagements in Bing Chat by over three times for its most egregious category, said Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Microsoft Bing.

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Googlers Making Over 250 Sandwiches

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Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 25, 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 Ads had a latency issue with the advertiser interface and API...

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Google Tests Grid Format For Local Results In Mobile Web Search

Google seems to be testing a grid-like format for local results in the mobile web search results. We see these grid formats primarily for product and shopping search results, but I don't think I've seen this for local search listings.

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Google Ads Tests Gold Verification Badge

Google Ads is also testing a gold verification badge or label in the search results. We saw a blue label and then a blue badge-style label and now we are seeing the label in gold.

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Bing Adds Site Name & Favicon To Search Result Snippets

Microsoft Bing has seemed to add the site name and favicon feature to its search results. This is similar to what Google launched first on mobile last year and then on desktop earlier this year.

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Google Ads Latency Issues & Errors With Advertiser Interface & API

Google Ads has been having more than normal latency issues causing errors within the advertiser interface and the Google Ads API. This started yesterday evening and is continuing through this morning.

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Google Ads Tests Show Similar Button

Google Ads seems to be testing a "show similar" button in the product carousel of sponsored listings. When you click on the "show similar" button, you are presented with a new dynamically loaded carousel that shows more products like the one you were looking at.

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Bing Team Moves Back To Redmond From Bellevue

Microsoft Bing Bellevue Office

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Monday, April 24, 2023

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 24, 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...

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Google Bike Trailer Cart

Google Bike Trailer Cart

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Friday, April 21, 2023

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 21, 2023

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Google AdSense 0 Clicks Bug Lingers On For Several Weeks

For the past several weeks, publishers have been complaining about an issue with Google AdSense reporting that their Google AdSense ads have been getting zero clicks. This has become known as the 0 clicks bug.

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Google Shadow

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Thursday, April 20, 2023

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 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.

Google has said page experience is now part of what makes content helpful...

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Poll: How Often Search Marketers Are Using ChatGPT, Bing Chat & Google Bard vs Traditional Search

I find myself going back to traditional search over asking AI-based search for answers, and I was curious if I am alone or not. So I created a number of polls on Twitter asking if search marketers are using AI-search or traditional search more and if so, are they using ChatGPT, Bing Chat or Google Bard.

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Google Publisher Center Reader Revenue Manager & Search Console Subscribed Content Report

Google has launched some goodies for news publishers, including a new Reader Revenue Manager within the Google Publisher Center and a Subscribed content report in Google Search Console.

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Google Maps Lapel Pin Gift

Google Maps Lapel Pin

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Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 19, 2023

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Google Search Product Image Thumbnail Snippets With Pricing Overlays

Google seems to have rolled out pricing overlays on top of some product thumbnail images within the search snippets. For example, if you search for [diamond bands] and look at the Costco result, you will see these pricing overlays.

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Google Water Tower Work Lounge Spot

Google Water Tower Work Lounge

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Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 18, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

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Google Investigating New Wave Of Google Ads Disapprovals Issues

There has been another wave of Google Ads disapproval across Google Ads and Merchant Center. Google's Ads Lisiason, Ginny Marvin, said the Google Ads team is aware of this and is investigating.

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Google: If You Can't Block No Result Found Internal Search Results Then Block All Search Results

Google's John Mueller went on a bit of a rant on Reddit on the topic of having your internal search result pages crawlable and indexable. As you know, in general, Google does not want to index search results but John said, this is especially true for search result pages that have no results found.

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Google Expands Return / Shipping Details In Search Results & New Search Console Reporting

Google announced that it can now show expanded shipping and return information in the Google search results snippets. Google also added new Search Console reporting to help merchants debug these shipping and return structured data elements.

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Google Vehicle Ads Now Open To Canadian (& US) Advertisers

Google's vehicle ads, which launched as a beta in January 2022 and then became available to all US advertisers in March 2022, are now available to Canadian advertisers this month.

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Bing Chat To Be Able To Process Book Size Documents

Bing Chat may soon be able to process book-size documents, not just a page or two of a PDF of web site, but a whole book. Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing, said this on Twitter the other day.

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Yellow Vespa At Google

Vespa At Google Dublin

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Monday, April 17, 2023

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 17, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

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Google Search Console New Video Indexing Report Inline Data URLs Issue

Google will now report inline data URLs that are used as video URLs as "Invalid video URL" in the video indexing report within Google Search Console. This may lead to a reassignment of the "Invalid video URL" issue to the new issue but the total number of affected videos should not change.

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Google Kirkland Construction Worker On Rooftop Working

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Friday, April 14, 2023

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 14, 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.

While I was offline...

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Old 2009 Bing Decision Engine Poster

Old Bing Decision Engine Poster

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Thursday, April 13, 2023

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 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 says just because a site is good today...

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Poll: 30% Use More Than Just Google For Search & Discovery

Greg Sterling ran a poll on Twitter asking, "Are you now branching out from Google as a search/discovery tool?" Almost 30% of those who answered, which are primarily SEOs/SEms, said they are, while the other 70% said they are sticking with Google 99% of the time.

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Restaurant Name: Thai Food Near Me

Restaurant Name Thai Food Near Me

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Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 12, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

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Google Tests Expanded Your Google Ad Summary With Edit Ad & Apply Recommendations

Several months ago, Google launched a feature to show those logged into their Google Ads account a section in web search named "Your Google Ad Summary." It seems Google is now expanding that section to let you edit some ads and apply some recommendations.

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Plant Like Google G Signage

Plant Like Google G Signage

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Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 11, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

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Google Bard Adds Google It Related Topics & Release Notes Page

Google has pushed out another feature for Google Bard. When you click on the "Google it" button, it now doesn't take you directly to Google Search, but rather it gives you related topics to click on to see search results for those topics. Google is also publishing a release notes document so we can stay on top of the changes Google releases with Bard.

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Yodeling Wylie Gustafson Back Yahoo

Wylie Gustafson Back Yodeling At Yahoo

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Monday, April 10, 2023

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 10, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

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Bing Chat May Support Third-Party Plugins Soon

We know that OpenAI's ChatGPT supports third-party plugins and soon, Bing Chat may also support third-party plugins. Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing, was asked about the topic and he said "Stay tuned," as if it is coming soon.

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YouTube Interview Stage Area In Hong Kong

YouTube Interview Stage Area In Hong Kong

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Friday, April 7, 2023

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 7, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

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Google: People Searching For Your Brand With Keywords Don't Help You Rank

Google's John Mueller said people searching for your brand name and a keyword phrase does not help you rank better in Google Search or perform better SEO-wise. So having people search for your brand name followed by a keyword phrase won't help you rank better.

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UN Chamber Music Society Performance At Google

UN Chamber Music Society Performed At Google

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Thursday, April 6, 2023

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 6, 2023

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Google Search "Cheaper Options" In Product Detail Overlay

Google Search is testing a new section for "cheaper options" in the product detail overlay window. So instead of just showing related products and product specs and buying options, Google is now testing "cheaper options" for higher priced products.

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Microsoft Advertising Professional Service Ads Global & More Bing Ads Changes

Microsoft Advertising announced a bunch of changes to its search ad platform, including the global rollout of professional service ads, bulk operations in the asset library, changes to broad match modifier and more.

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Google: International SEO, CDN Location Does Not Matter

Google's John Mueller said when it comes to international SEO and multilingual sites, the CDN's location does not really matter for SEO.

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Google Street View Car Crash

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Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 5, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

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April 2023 Google Webmaster Report

Last month was jammed packed with Google search news including the Google March 2023 broad core update starting on March 15th and completing on March 28th. We had the end of the February 2023 product reviews update. Google Bard started to roll out, many are not impressed.

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Google Tests Map Auto-Expansion Feature In Web Search

Google is testing having the map box automatically expand within the web search results, above or on the right side of the local pack results, when you begin to place your mouse cursor over the results.

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Google Skills Food Cart On Wheels

Google Skills Food Cart

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 4, 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...

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Google Ads New Appeal Warning - Make Sure To Fix Your Violations Or Else...

Google Ads added a new notice or warning to the Google Ads appeal form, that says if you don't fix your policy violation prior to submitting the appeal, Google may limit how often you can make those appeals.

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Guuhgl SEO Card Game

Guuhgl SEO Cards

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Monday, April 3, 2023

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 3, 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.

I am seeing signs of a Google search ranking algorithm update...

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Japanese Calligraphy Lessons At Google Tokyo

Japanese Calligraphy At Google Tokyo

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