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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 9, 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 will show…

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Bing Doesn’t Support data-nosnippet HTML Attribute

While Google supports the data-nosnippet HTML attribute, Microsoft Bing does not, clarified Fabrice Canel of Microsoft on Twitter. The data-nosnippet attribute lets you designate textual parts of an HTML page…

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Bing SEO: Subscription-Based & Paywall Content

Fabrice Canel posted an SEO best practices post for sites that use subscription-based and paywall content. While Google has something called flexible sampling, previously a first click free program –…

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Google Merchant Center Breaks Up Its Abuse Policy

Google has updated its various abuse policies for Merchant Center. Google said Google Shopping ads and Google free listings Malicious or unwanted software policy will be split into three separate…

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Google Search Console Currently Down

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…

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Google: Ignore Black Hat Traffic, We Do.

Google’s John Mueller said it is safe to ignore black hat traffic, he said it is just spam and there is no need to worry about it from an SEO…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 1, 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. I am celebrating…

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Google My Business App No Longer Available

We knew that when Google rebranded Google My Business to Google Business Profile that Google will be doing away with the Google My Business App. And now that day has…

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Google Ads Continues To Suffer From Latency Issues

Google Ads continues to suffer from ongoing latency issues – mostly from the Google Ads console. This is the place advertisers go in and manage their ads. It has become…

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Multisearch Not Being Tracked In Google Search Console

Google Search Console is not currently tracking clicks or impressions for traffic sent through the new Google multisearch feature. Glenn Gabe confirmed this the other day by running some tests…

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Google Search Console Notices For max-image-preview

Last week, Google began sending new notices via Google Search Console about ways to enhance your images on Google. The notice talks about using the max-image-preview robots meta tag on…

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Bing Webmaster Tools Notifications & Insights Bug Fixed

Fabrice Canel from Microsoft confirmed Microsoft has fixed a bug with Bing Webmaster Tools showing inaccurate and/or irrelevant notifications in the notifications and insights section. Fabrice wrote, “Happy to report…

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Google Maps Add Stop Advertisements

Did you know that Google Maps can suggest that you add a stop along the way as an advertisement or sponsored route along the way? It pops up as you…

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Google To Sunset Google Optimize On September 30, 2023

Google will be sunsetting, killing off, the Google Optimize product on September 30, 2023. “Google Optimize and Optimize 360 will no longer be available after September 30, 2023. Your experiments…

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New Google Analytics 4 Benchmarking Data

Google Analytics, GA4, seems to be rolling out benchmarking data, similar to Universal Analytics before it. This feature lets you compare your analytics data to others in your same industry…

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Google Search Car Carousel

We saw Google label some car types as electric and hybrid a year ago. Now Google has this car carousel in the mobile search that lets you filter by many…

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18 Years Covering The Search Industry

For the past 18 years I’ve been writing on this site, covering what you – the search marketers are chattering about. Today marks the 18th anniversary of the Search Engine…

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Google Finally Launches The Perspectives Search Filter

Google has finally launched the perspectives filter in the Google mobile search results. There is a ton of confusion around what perspectives is because Google has released or tested a…

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Google Clearing Out The Manual Actions Backlog?

Earlier this month we reported that Google said there is a backlog with the manual actions in the queue, some as far back as over several months ago. Well, I…

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Some Recent Weird Google Search Interface Bugs

Over the past couple of days, I’ve seen a few recent complaints about weird interface bugs in Google Search. To be honest, I know some of these are browser extension…

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New Microsoft Advertising Dynamic Descriptions Ad Text For Bing S...

Microsoft announced a new feature in Microsoft Advertising for Bing search ads named dynamic descriptions. Dynamic descriptions will automatically create descriptions dynamically powered by Microsoft Advertising’s Artificial Intelligence.

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Google Cloud Translated Pages Not Indexed By Google Search

Google Cloud’s web site is having issues being indexed in Google Search, specifically the translated pages. Last week, I reported about a webmaster asking about issues with translated content not…

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Google’s Gary Illyes: Focus On Originality In 2025

Gary Illyes from Google reportedly said at event the other day that it is important for us to focus on originality in the coming year. “Originality is something we’re going…