Daily Search Forum Recap: November 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.
Google’s November 2023 core update is finally done rolling out…
Google November 2023 Core Update Finished Rolling Out
After just under 26 days, the Google November 2023 core update is finally done rolling out. It took almost two weeks longer to roll out than the average core update and rolled out during the huge shopping days on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, also ove…
Google Local Photos Results With Heart & Other Reactions
Google seems to be testing allowing searchers to “heart” a photo in the local search results. This can be a way for Google to learn if the images uploaded to the hotel listing is useful to searchers and maybe also help searchers interact with the Goog…
Google Ads Won’t Allow Personalized Ads For Consumer Finance In February 2024
Google posted a new policy update for Google Ads saying it won’t allow personalization of ads for consumer finance in the United States or Canada starting on February 28, 2023. Google said you won’t be allowed to target to audiences based on gender, ag…
GPT-4 Turbo Coming To Microsoft Copilot / Bing Chat
Microsoft will be bringing GPT-4 Turbo to Copilot, formerly known as Bing Chat. It is unclear when Microsoft will update its AI models from GPT-4 to GPT-4 Turbo, but we know it is in the works.
Google Adds Organization Structured Data With More Business Details Support
Google has yet again launched new structured data named Organization structured data. This new Organization structured data merged the old logo and URL structured data for your business but also adds new fields such as name, address, contact informatio…
Most SEOs Say Google’s November Core & Reviews Updates Will Complete In December, Not November
The Google November 2023 core update and Google November 2023 reviews update are still both rolling out, and we have no estimated time of when they will finish rolling out. Both are well past their estimated two-week rollout period. I ran a poll yeste…
Bing Chat / Microsoft Copilot Mode Usage: Balanced 70%, Creative & Precise 15% Each
Mikhail Parakhin from Microsoft shared how often the different modes in Microsoft Copilot, formerly known as Bing Chat, are used. There is Balanced mode, creative mode and precise mode. Balanced mode gets 60-70% of the usages, whereas the other two mo…
Google Business Profile Review Service Restrictions Webpage
Google redid its Google Business Profiles reinstatement process and I think as part of that (I can be wrong), Google added this review service restrictions webpage. It will show you if you have any business listings that you manage that have any restri…
10 Best Reasons To Put 10 Best In Your Headlines For SEO
Is there an SEO benefit, a search ranking benefit, to putting numbers in your headlines? Such as the “10 best reasons to put 10 best in your headlines” or more practically, “10 best toilet seats.” That was a question I found on Reddit, a question I ne…
New Google Profile Page & Discussion Forum Structured Data With Search Console Reports
Google has announced new structured data for discussion forum and profile page structured data on Google Search, with new markup and also new Search Console reports. Also, with this change, Google updated the Q&A forum structured data. This seems related to the new personalized experience within Google Search, the hidden gems, the follower counts and discussion and forum features.
Google Search Console Down Again For Many
Google Search Console has been having reliability issues since yesterday, as we covered. It is currently down for many users across the world. The outage started again this morning at around 4 am ET.
Google Search Console Currently Down (Back Up After 50 Minutes)
Google Search Console seems to be down right now. If you try to access it, you will get a 500 server error. I suspect Search Console will be back up shortly but right now, if it is down for you, you are not alone.
Vlog #250: Dave DiGregorio On ChatGPT For Local SEO & Being Super Process Focused
In part one with Dave DiGregorio we spoke about his journey from working in sports memorabilia to getting into SEO. Then, in part two we talked about some local pack reductions, diversifying your local SEO efforts, the services feature, and the amaz…
Google: The SEO Value Of Bringing Back A 404 Page Is Less Than The Effort
Google’s John Mueller answered a question about finding broken links that 404 and if there is SEO value in working on bringing those links back to life. John ended his response by saying on Reddit, “The SEO “value” of bringing a 404 back is probably le…
Google Crawl Rate Setting Going Away & Googlebot To Lower Minimum Crawl Speed
The legacy feature to control how fast Google crawls your website is going away on January 8, 2024. It is a feature that launched 15 years ago but Google never migrated it to the new version of Search Console. Gary Illyes from Google said, “with the …
Google Tests Line Separators Between Sitelinks
Over the past week or so, Google has been testing line separators between Sitelinks in the Google Search results for snippets. This feature test really gives a lot of screen real estate to those snippets and gives it a lot of space.
Google Tests “Interview” Label For News Results “For Context”
Google is testing an “interview” label in the “For Context” news box within the Google Search results. We recently saw a similar styled label named “by the numbers” and now I am seeing an “interview” label.
New Google Ads Value Based Bidding Guide
Google has released a new four-page PDF document named Testing value based bidding using Google Ads campaign experiments guide. This document can be useful for those who want to test Maximize conversion value or Target ROAS bidding.
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Core & Reviews Update Not Done, Google Simple Search, Date Issues, Follower Counts & More
This week was much slower than the previous weeks, and yes, the core and reviews updates are not yet completed…