Daily Search Forum Recap: November 22, 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 is testing “simple search” feature…
Google: Follower Count Is Not A Google Search Ranking Factor
Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, confirmed on X that follower count is not used as a search ranking factor by Google Search.
Google “Simple Search” – New Search Refinement Option?
Google may be testing a new “Simple Search” feature that may dumb-down the search results when you want something more simple. Google shows the “Simple Search” +Topics refinement button at the top of the mobile and desktop results, when tapped on, it …
Google Ads Business Name & Logo Account-Level Automated Assets Live
Google has now added the business logo and business name details to the account-level automated assets within Google Ads. We knew this was being tested back in April and now it seems to be rolling out to advertisers.
Google Fast Pickup Or Delivery Search Box
Google is testing a new section to show which products they have in their index that are available for fast pickup or fast delivery. Google already knows how long it would take to deliver or pick up an item, so it is grouping those that can be delivere…
Google Bard Can Now Understand YouTube Videos
Google Bard can now respond with answers based on the spoken words in a YouTube video. Google said, it is “expanding the YouTube Extension to understand some video content so you can have a richer conversation with Bard about it.”
Build Your Keyword Tool with Python and ChatGPT: A Subreddit Insights Guide
Learn to create SEO Chrome extensions with ChatGPT. Use this step-by-step instruction to bring your innovative SEO tool ideas to life.
Follower Count Fully Live In Google Search Result Snippets
Google seems to have fully rolled out the follower count in the search result snippets for social media sites like YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, X and others. This was being tested back in April and Google said it would go live last week with the pers…
SEO implementation barriers and how to overcome them
Why SEO implementation is important When completing a large piece of work, whether that’s a nice beefy technical audit, or a site architecture review, we often feel a great sense of accomplishment. But the real value of your work is in its implementation – what’s the point of doing such a large piece of work […]
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New Reports: Google Search Getting Dates Wrong Again
I am seeing some new reports, some publicly, and some not, of Google Search getting the dates they display in the Google Search results wrong. This is a common issue that Google has struggled with over the years but recently seemed to have been gettin…
Google Search “Ask A Doctor” PPA
Google Search has what looks like the people also ask (PPA) section but titled “Ask a doctor.” I am not sure if this is new, because I suspect since I can replicate this myself that it has been out for some time. But for some medical queries, Google do…
Seven FAQs On Automatically-Created Assets For Google Responsive Search Ads
Google’s Ad Liaison, Ginny Marvin, posted seven FAQs around automatically-created assets (ACA) for responsive search ads. She posted these on X yesterday, and I figured I’d archive them here.
Google Tests Longer Local Justifications From Third Party Sources
Google may be testing showing longer-form justifications in the Google local results. In the example below, provided by Miriam Ellis on X, it showed a more extended description/justification provided by Yelp.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 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.
You can send your site to Google if it lost a lot of traffic in Search…
Vlog #249: Dave DiGregorio On Local Pack Reductions, Diversifying Traffic, Services & The Community
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 talk about some local pack reductions, diversifying your local SEO efforts, the services feature…
Google Ads Performance Max Products With Brand & Custom Labels
Google has added to the Performance Max product campaigns within Google Ads brand and custom labels. This allows advertisers the quick ability to segment your products also by brand and custom labels.
Reminder: Google Search Notes Are Public & Can Show In Google’s Search Results
This is just a reminder that the new Google Search and Discover Notes feature that launched as a Search Labs experiment are crawlable, indexable and visible in Google Search. You can see them both in the Search Labs experiment when looking at notes but…
How To Let Google Know That Your Google Search, Discover & News Traffic Significantly Dropped
On Friday, Google’s Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, said you can reply to a thread on X or post a help thread in Google’s forums to let him know about sites that saw a significant drop in Google Search, Google Discover and Google News traffic recently.
Bing Chat To Offer Always Read Aloud Option
Microsoft is working on a feature or setting to allow searchers and users to have Bing Chat always read aloud the responses without having to request it manually each time. Mikhail Parakhin from Microsoft said the team is working on such a feature.