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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 5, 2022

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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 got a lot of local SEO topics for you today starting with Google adding support for a new recycling attribute for some local businesses. Google updated the help documents to include how adding in-store products can improve your local visibility. Google Business Profiles review tool now works for over 10 accounts. Google My Business app is going away, Google sent out an email notice. Google News is showing a section named “see similar headlines.” How is that for your local search fix?

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

New Recycling Attribute For Google Business Profiles

Google on April 1st announced the launch of a new business attribute for select business categories. The new attribute is for recycling that lets local storefronts and shops clearly demonstrate their recycling services.

Google Help Doc Adds In-Store Products Helps With Local Visibility

Google has added a section to the how to improve your local ranking on Google that talks about adding in-store products. Google also added to the edit your business profile a section on these products as well. Google clearly wants you to add products to your local listing, if that is applicable to your business.

Google My Business App Going Away

Google warned us that the Google My Business app will go away at some point when it relaunched as Google Business Profiles. Now Google is emailing users of the app notifying them that “the Google My Business app is being replaced.”

Google Business Profile Review Tool Now Works For Larger Accounts

According to Ben Fisher, Google has opened up the Google Business Profiles maps reviews tool to those who manage over 10 accounts. Previously, the tool only worked for those who managed a limited number of accounts.

Google News “See Similar Headlines From” Section Promotes Publications

Google News has a new (I think new) section for some news queries that says “see similar headlines from.” This section is often at the bottom of the news results and it shows a carousel of news publications with their logo and name for you to scroll through and click on to get more news on that specific topic from that specific publication.

Doogler Swing

Here is a photo of that cute dog now at the Google Dublin office on a swing. Yes, it is a Doogler on a swing. Below there is also a video of the dog swinging on Instagram.

Other Great Search Threads:

My comment on voice search was because it often feels like people have expectations about voice search that aren’t practical. Getting a Google Home/Alexa and using it regularly gives you more insig, John Mueller on Twitter

A lot of really interesting insights on Google’s new Info Evaluation Resource (https://t.co/4B1M0CTKrB) Care to dive in with me a bit? Here are a few things that spoke to me!🧵, Mordy Oberstein on Twitter

Elon Musk Takes 9.2pct Stake in Twitter Shares, WebmasterWorld

Heads-up, Journeys has finally hit the stable release of Chrome. I’ve been waiting for that to arrive, and it must have recently (like over the past few days). Note, I’m not seeing the prompt to “Resume your research” while se, Glenn Gabe on Twitter

If there were a pagerank’y effect from hreflang, SEOs would have been messing with it for a long time now :-)., John Mueller on Twitter

It shouldn’t be indexable if it’s an automatic translation, but of course it’s fine to use them otherwise. If you’re using a JS widget for it, often that’s not indexable by default (either script is robo, John Mueller on Twitter

That’s fine, no need to also have separate sitemap files., John Mueller on Twitter

What is the benefit of adding ” rel=”noopener” target=”_blank” to internal links? : SEO, Reddit

We got it back! (sorta) #PPCChat, Greg on Twitter

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Google Hanukkah Decorations Are Live For 2023

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December 3, 2023

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Hanukkah (aka Chanukah) starts this coming Thursday night, December 7th. Google has added its Hanukkah decorations to the Google Search results interface to celebrate. Google does this every year and I expect to see the same rollout in the coming weeks for Christmas and Kawanzaa but for now, since Chanukah is in the coming days, we have the Hanukkah decorations live at Google Search.

Here is a screenshot of the Chanukah decorations as they look like on the mobile search results.

You can see it yourself by searching on Google for [chanukah], [hanukkah], but not yet [חֲנוּכָּה‎] or other spelling variations yet but it should soon. It looks better on mobile than it does on desktop results.

To see the past, the 2023 decorations, 2021 decorations, 2020 Chanukah decorations, 2019 Google holiday decorations, the 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 and so on.

Happy Chanukah, everyone!

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Google Pay Accepted Icons In Google Search Results

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December 3, 2023

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Google seems to be testing a Google Pay Accepted label or icon in the Google search results. This label has the super G logo followed by the words “Pay accepted” words next to search result snippets that support Google Pay and notate such in their structured data.

This was first spotted by Khushal Bherwani who shared some screenshots of this on X – here is one:

Here are some more screenshots:

Here is test and without test window for same query. pic.twitter.com/n9cYWBOsro

— Khushal Bherwani (@b4k_khushal) October 20, 2023

Brodie Clark also posted some screenshots after on X:

In continuation from the test from October, Google is now testing out a new Google Pay label associated with organic results. Last month, Google was testing Pay Accepted text, with this month changing it to Pay encrypted checkout. More details: https://t.co/MvFNoPmMDR pic.twitter.com/WDVVc4RbTO

— SERPs Up 🌊 (@SERPalerts) November 30, 2023

I tried to replicate this but I came up short.

This is not the first time Google had similar icons like this in its search results.

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Google Discover Showing Older Content Since Follow Feature Arrived

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December 2, 2023

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Typically, Google Discover shows content that is less than a day old, but it can show content that is weeks, months, or even years old. However, typically, Google will show more recent content in the Discover feed. Well, that may have changed with the new Google follow feature.

Glenn Gabe, who is a very active Google Discover user, noticed that since the Follow feature rolled out, he has been seeing content that is weeks and months old way more often than before the follow feature rolled out. Glenn wrote on X that “this could also be playing a role. i.e. Google isn’t providing as much recent content, but instead, focusing on providing targeted content based on the topics you are following.”

It makes sense that if you follow a specific topic and if Google Discover only shows the most authoritative types of content, it might be hard for Google to find new content on that topic. So it does make sense that Google may show older content more often for that specific topic you follow.

Here are screenshots Glenn shared:

Google Discover Old Stories Follow