Google March 2024 Core Update Finished April 19, 2024
Apr 26, 2024
The Google March 2024 core update finished a week ago and Google did not tell us until today. It finished officially on April 19, 2024, and took 45 days to roll out after starting on March 5, 2024. Google also said this helped reduce low-quality and unoriginal content in search results by 45%, which is up from their estimate of 40%.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 26, 2024
Apr 26, 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 Publisher Center removes the ability to add publications manually. Google is testing placing the snippet date next to the URL. Google now shows IP ranges for user-triggered fetchers. Google Ads has a new warning for low keyword quality. Google and Microsoft impress with earnings reports. And I posted the weekly SEO video recap. Also...
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Google Publisher Center Removes Ability To Add Publications
Apr 26, 2024
Google has removed the feature to add publications manually to the Google Publisher Center. Instead, publications will be automatically added when Google's algorithms decide to.
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Google Testing Placing The Snippet Date Next To URL
Apr 26, 2024
Google is testing placing the date in the snippet on the same line as the URL in the snippet. This is instead of placing it before the snippet's description section.
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Googlebot IP Ranges For User-Triggered Fetchers
Apr 26, 2024
Google is now sharing the Googlebot IP ranges for the User-triggered fetchers. User-triggered fetchers are from Google tools and product functions where the end user triggers a fetch.
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Alphabet Google Ad Revenue Up 13% & Microsoft Bing Ads Revenue Up 12%
Apr 26, 2024
Google and Microsoft both reported very good earnings, driving both stock prices up after hours. I like to dive into the ad revenue side, and it looks like Google Ad revenue was up 13% from last year and Microsoft Advertising revenue was up 12% from last year.
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Google Ads Low Keyword Quality Warning
Apr 26, 2024
Google Ads is showing yet another new and fun notice to some advertisers. This one shows an impression issue for "Low keyword quality." As a reminder, as for diagnostic insights, quality score is not used in the auction.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 25, 2024
Apr 25, 2024
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
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Google March Core Update Stilling Rolling Out & Heated Fluctuations Continue
Apr 25, 2024
Over the past few days, while I was offline, the SEO chatter around the Google search ranking volatility continued to be super heated. The Google tracking tools seemed to calm down a bit, but the chatter is still very heated. This is all while the Google March 2024 core update is still rolling out 51 days later.
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How Prabhakar Raghavan Killed Google Search; Report
Apr 25, 2024
Ed Zitron wrote a piece named The Man Who Killed Google Search. It goes through in detail how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads - led a coup so that he could run Google Search, and how an email chain from 2019 began a cascade of events that would lead to him running it into the ground, he said.
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