Daily Search Forum Recap: July 17, 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.
This past weekend was more heated than ever in terms of the Google search results volatility…
Vlog #232: Fabrice Canel Of Microsoft Bing On Indexing Quality
Fabrice Canel is someone most of you who watch my videos know already, he has been with Microsoft for 26 years and is now the Principal Program Manager at Bing…
Confirmed: Google News Indexing Bug Fixed After 3 Weeks Of Issues
Google confirmed an indexing bug with Google News publishers that went on for about three weeks. It started around June 21st and was officially fixed on Friday, July 14th.
Google Still Working On Improving Preferred Language Search Issues
In January, Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liason, said that Google Search has issues showing the searcher’s preferred language on the search results page. He said this is a priority for Google to resolve. This past Friday, Danny Sullivan said, “We ar…
Google Quality Rater Traffic In Analytics From Raterhub.com
Have you ever spotted a Google quality rater visiting your website? It is not as uncommon as you thought. I even saw it on this website. You can spot it by searching your analytics from raterhub.com referral traffic.
Google Merchant Center: How To Build Trust With Your Customers
Google has posted a new document in the Google Merchant Center area on how to build trust with your customers. The document goes through your business identity, your transparency, your online reputation, and your professional design.
Google Search “Updates For You” Section
Here is a Google Search treatment that feels old but I can’t see any coverage of this feature on this site or on other sites. There is a carousel section named “updates for you” that shows more recent blog posts about your query in the list of search r…
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update & Volatility Explodes This Weekend
I often post about Google ranking volatility and search ranking algorithm updates but I rarely post about them on a weekend. But I just had to this Sunday morning; the tools are literally all reporting massive and explosive volatility this weekend and …
Chatgpt SEO prompts: Do emulators dream of electric sheep?
Chatgpt cant do a lot of things you hear about on Social Media. Chatgpt is effectively emulating the function you think it is doing. It isn’t counting those words you are writing, it isn’t spell-checking your writing, it isn’t grammar-checking your copy. It cant check your website’s SEO (search engine optimisation), and it cannot SEO your website. If you use Ai to produce sloppy content, Google will have an algorithm cooking for you.
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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Volatility, Google News Indexing Bug, Bard, SGE, Site Names, Syndication, INP & More
For the original iTunes version, click here.
Surprise, surprise, we had another unconfirmed Google search ranking update. Google confirmed it had a Google News indexing bug for weeks and just fixed it at the end of this week…
Will Google Confirm A Future Search Algorithm Update?
With all these unconfirmed Google search ranking updates over the past couple of months and the Google results being super volatile, we are all asking when will Google confirm the next Google search update.
Google: Don’t Change Your Redirects In A Week (If You Can Avoid It)
Google’s John Mueller responded to a question on Reddit about how to “undo” a 301 permanent redirect. In short, John said you can just change the redirect but he does not recommend you set up redirects just to redirect them somewhere else in the short…
Bing Tests New Snippet Questions Result Box
Microsoft Bing has this feature where you can see “people also ask” like results under search result snippets, I am not sure what Microsoft calls them, but they provide additional questions and answers related to the site and query.
Google Search Practice Speaking Feature For Specific Countries
Google Search seems to be testing a new feature to help searchers learn to speak in English (and maybe other languages). It is called Practice Speaking and can be triggered in some countries, such as India.
Google Images Tests “See More Like This” Button
Google is testing an icon or button overlayed on images in the image search results to “see more like this.” I personally do not see this myself, so it must be a test.
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 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’s search results are super-heated again…
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update & Volatility On July 12th
Hey there – it is me again – reporting about another unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update. This one seemed to start yesterday, July 12th. I am seeing a lot of chatter amongst the SEO community and the automated Google tracking tools are s…
Google Search To Release New Improvements To Site Names
Google is going to release its second batch up improvements for Site names in the search results “in the near future,” Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison said.
Poll Shows We’re Using Google Search Generative Experience Less Often
The new Google Search Generative Experience started to roll out to some users in late May but we are already seeing a decline in usage for these generative AI search features.
Google Bard Gains New Features & Available To More Users
Just when updates to Google Bard were getting stale, Google announced a boatload of new things for its generative AI tool, Bard. In short, Google added several new features to Bard and expanded access to Bard to “most of the world” and many languages.