Daily Search Forum Recap: October 28, 2024
Oct 28, 2024
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 Search has systems to downgrade rankings when portions of your site's content is starkly different from the rest of your site. Google had more search ranking volatility over the weekend, it just won't calm down. Google Search Console updated its performance reports and it freaked out SEOs big time. Google updated its URL structure...
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Google Search Systems Downgrading Rankings For Content Starkly Different From Main Content
Oct 28, 2024
Google is now saying it has ranking systems that "aim to understand if a section of a site is independent or starkly different from the main content of the site. This helps us surface the most useful information from a range of sites." This is the reason that sites like Fortune Recommends, Forbes Advisor and other sections of sites saw declines in Google Search rankings over the past several weeks.
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Google Ads To Sunset Call Ads
Oct 28, 2024
Google Ads will be sunsetting call ads sometime next year and will be migrating those to responsive search ads. Google wrote, "Call ads are being upgraded to responsive search ads to enable new features and simplify asset creation and management."
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Google Business Profiles Showing Reviews Within Photo Carousels
Oct 28, 2024
Google is now testing showing reviews within the photos carousel within a Google Business Profile listing. So when you scroll through the photos for a business, Google can also show review snippets.
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Google Mentioned Products Carousel Snippet
Oct 28, 2024
Google is testing showing a carousel named mentioned products, that can be displayed under a search result snippet that shows the products mentioned in that search result. This came up for Reddit results, in the Discussions and forums section in Google Search.
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Google Updates URL Structure, Favicon & Adds Google Trends Documentation
Oct 28, 2024
Google has added a new search document on Google Trends while also making some small updates to the URL structure, best practices documentation, and favicons documentation. Google has been doing a lot of videos around Google Trends, so the new documentation around that topic is not a surprise.
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Google Business Profiles Answer Questions About Your Inventory
Oct 28, 2024
Google Business Profiles may now ask you to verify your information about your store inventory within the Products section of your profile. Google will ask "Do you sell these products in-store?"
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Google Search Console Performance Report Showing No Data For October 28
Oct 28, 2024
Google Search Console's performance report seems to have a bug where it is showing almost zero data for today. I can replicate this across numerous Search Console properties, so maybe something is stuck with Search Console right now.
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Google Search Ranking Volatility October 26th & 27th & 23rd & 24th
Oct 27, 2024
While I was offline, it seems we had two bouts of Google Search ranking volatility, one starting around Wednesday, October 23rd and 24th, and then again in the past 24 hours, starting on October 26th and 27th. I mean, this is a lot of the same as my previous Google Search ranking algorithm update coverage.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 25, 2024
Oct 25, 2024
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 said it does not use ARIA for SEO or ranking purposes. Google said AI is not going away, so don't be left behind. Google Discover seems to be getting new icons. Google Search has these top recipe guides. Google is testing other people search box. Plus, I have my video scheduled to be posted today. And again, I am offline today...
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