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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 3, 2022

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4 weeks ago

June 3, 2022

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.

Microsoft’s IndexNow, after much hesitation, will be coming to Yoast SEO Premium soon the two companies announced. Google Shopping loyalty program feature seems to now be live. Google AdSense will be testing serving ads based on the Chrome Topics API in July. Google said there is no need to resubmit your page for indexing and Google said it is easier to just stop buying links than to maintain your disavow file. Plus, I have my weekly SEO video recap – check it out and subscribe.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Core Update, Nofollow Links, Rich Results & Apple Search Rumors

This week, we dove more into the Google May 2022 broad core update, stories of those hit, how Google looks at the data prior to the rollout and more. Google also hinted that useful nofollow links, despite the policy change in 2019…

Google Shopping Ads Loyalty Program Feature Live?

At Google I/O the company announced a new Shopping Ad feature to showcase your loyalty programs directly in Google Search. Well, that feature might be out in the wild now, for Target and other retailers.

IndexNow Coming To Yoast SEO Premium

Despite Yoast’s founder, Joost de Valk, being super unimpressed with IndexNow, the Microsoft backed indexing initiative, Yoast will be adding support soon for IndexNow in Yoast SEO Premium.

Google AdSense To Test Chrome’s Topics API Starting July 1st

Google announced that starting July 1, 2022, Google AdSense will begin testing the Chrome’s Topics API for ad requests on a “small percentage of traffic.” The Topics API was announced early year as a replacement for the flopped FLoC Google cookie replacement.

Google’s John Mueller: It’s Easier To Stop Buying Links Than Maintaining Your Disavow File

Google’s John Mueller has one of his good one liners again. An SEO named Sara Taher asked him for his “thoughts on people updating the disavow file everyday?” John responded “It would be easier to stop buying links /shrug.”

Google: You Don’t Have To Resubmit Your Page For Indexing Each Time You Update It

Google’s John Mueller said when it comes to reindexing and resubmitting your web pages to Google Search – Google does it on its own. You do not need to resubmit your pages each time you update the content, Google will figure it out.

Fabrice Canel’s Microsoft 25 Years of Service Award

Fabrice Canel, who you all probably know, he is the Principal Product Manager at Bing. Well, he received his 25 Years of Service Award from Microsoft.

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New Google Rich Results Guidelines Prevent Prohibited, Regulated Or Harmful Products

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July 1, 2022

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New Google Rich Results Guidelines Prevent Prohibited, Regulated Or Harmful Products

Google Search has added new content guidelines to the rich results help document. These new guidelines directly disallow you to markup product or content that are widely prohibited or regulated, or that can facilitate serious harm to self or others. Google said it will simply not show rich results on such products.

Product examples include firearms & weapons, recreational drugs, tobacco, vaping products, gambling-related products and other products that can pose acute threats of physical harm.

The new guidelines were posted over here and read:

Don’t mark up content that promotes widely prohibited or regulated goods, services, or information that may facilitate serious and/or immediate or long term harm to self or others. This includes content related to firearms & weapons, recreational drugs, tobacco & vaping products and gambling-related products.

This new policy is effective already and I assume you will soon, if not already, not see rich results in Google Search for these types of products. This includes Google not showing star ratings, prices, or availability information and so on.

Google told me “this policy change will align the rich snippets feature with other Search surfaces that display product information from merchants, to help provide consistency and clarity.”

Google will not issue manual actions in Google Search Console for violation of this guidelines, Google will simply will just not show the rich results in Google Search.

Here is a screenshot from Glenn Gabe of it already going missing for sites:

And yep, review snippets are gone from the SERPs already for the verticals impacted. Will be interesting to track this over time. Here’s a quick example: pic.twitter.com/4h5nWcMdlb
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) June 30, 2022
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