Daily Search Forum Recap: May 27, 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.

Google is now showing fewer sitelinks for each snippet, possibly. Google Maps shows justifications in the map interface. Google Ads will disallow some skin lightening products. Google said noindexed pages with canonicals may or may not pass signals. Google is testing a new lighter search bar. And my weekly SEO video recap is out and I talk more about the core updates and volatility over the past week or so.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

• Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google May Core Update, Google Ranking Tremors Galore, Google Marketing Live Ad News & More
  
  After over six months of waiting, we finally got a new Google broad core update, the May 2022 core update, I discuss some of what we are seeing early on…




• Google Maps Mobile Showing Justifications On The Map
  
  Google is now showing justifications directly in the Google Maps mobile interface and app for businesses that you might be interested in. Justifications are basically reviews or comments about the business that Google might think you want to see overlayed.
• Google Displaying Less Sitelinks For The Past Couple Months
  
  The other day, I reported on Search Engine Land that Google seems to be showing fewer sitelinks in the search snippets. Not that Google is showing sitelinks less often in general, but rather that I cannot find any sitelinks that are made up of 6 links and I am more often finding 2 or 4 sitelinks in a snippet.
• Do No-Indexed Pages With Canonical To New Page Pass Google Signals?
  
  Kenichi Suzuki asked Google’s John Mueller an SEO question that got an interesting response. The question was “I’m curious about this thread. If page A has noindex and rel=canonical pointing to Page B, are the signals of A transferred to B?” John replied, “I don’t think that’s defined.”




• Google Tests Search Bar Menu Links In Box Button Like Interface
  
  Google Search is testing a new design for the search bar menu items, where Google shows images, videos, news, etc under the search bar. Instead of the normal links with icons, Google is testing shading them in blue and grayish background button like colors.




• Google Ads To Prohibit Some Skin Lightening Products
  
  Google Ads will prohibit some skin lightening products starting in June 2020. Any skin lightening product that imply the superiority of one skin tone over another will not be allowed to advertise on Google Ads.




• Google Failte Fest Event?
  
  I am not sure what this is, but you can see a booth set up at the Google office in Dublin that says Fáiltefest. Failte Fest seems like an event for culture, live music & entertainment but the company

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