Daily Search Forum Recap: October 11, 2024
Oct 11, 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.
We are seeing more signs of intense Google Search ranking volatility. Google is now showing sites hit by HCU or core updates in the AI Overview links/citations. Google Search is missing the video tab in search for some users. Google spoke about when your robots.txt is unavailable. Google added edit and delete buttons next to your reviews. Bing is testing "best list of" carousels in search. And I posted the SEO video recap this morning.
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Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiking October 10th
Oct 11, 2024
Can you believe it, it has been over a week since I reported on any Google Search ranking algorithm updates or volatility. Over the past 24-hours or so, the level of chatter have spiked, along with many of the third-party Google Search ranking tracking tools.
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Google Not Showing Sites Hit By Helpful Content Update In AI Overviews
Oct 11, 2024
Google's AI Overviews seem to not show citations or link to sites that were hit by the helpful content update (and probably core updates), even when you ask the AI Overview directly about that site and even if that site is ranking well for that query in the traditional Google search results.
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Bing Search Best List Of Carousel
Oct 11, 2024
Microsoft is testing a new Bing Search carousel titled "Best list of X." It can be the best list of PPC agencies or other queries that Bing wants to show you the best list of.
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Google Search Missing Video Tab For Some Users
Oct 11, 2024
Google Search seems to be missing the video tab under the search bar for some searchers. I suspect this is some sort of weird bug, there is no way in my mind that Google will do away with the ability to search for videos.
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Google On When Robots.txt Is Unreachable, Other Pages Reachability Matter
Oct 11, 2024
There is this interesting conversation on LinkedIn around a robots.txt serves a 503 for two months and the rest of the site is available. Gary Illyes from Google said that when other pages on the site are reachable and available, that makes a big difference, but when those other pages are not, then "you're out of luck," he wrote.
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Google Adds Edit & Delete Buttons To Reviews
Oct 11, 2024
Google has added an edit and delete button link next to the reviews you added to a Google Business Profile listing. This gives the reviewer a quicker method to modify or remove the review they left for a business.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 10, 2024
Oct 10, 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 Local Service Ads will require advertisers to have a Google Business Profile next month. Google is testing a Quick view button in search that gives searchers no reason to look at your site. Google may have 9...
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Google Local Service Ads To Require Google Business Profile
Oct 10, 2024
Google will soon require businesses who want to advertise using Google Local Service Ads to also have a Google Business Profile. Google posted a notice that reads, "By Thursday, November 21, 2024, your Local Services ad will need a matching Google Business Profile to continue appearing in search results and to display your customer reviews."
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Are There 9,000 Google Ads Campaigns Created Every Second?
Oct 10, 2024
Thomas Eccel posted a guess, trying to figure out how many Google Ads campaigns are created in a timeframe. He said if the ad campaigns are issued in sequential order, based on his calculations, 9,000 ad campaigns are created on Google Ads every second.
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