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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 16, 2022

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November 16, 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.

Have you ever heard of the Google Coati update algorithm? Neither have I but it was a thing, learn more below. Google AR shoes are now in the search results and clippable coupons are also available. Google says cross-linking words in your content is good only when it is within the context and relevant. Google does pick up on broken URL patterns but will slow the crawl of those URLs over time. Google Business Profile posts and updates added a cropping tool.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

Google Coati Algorithm – The Google Update You Never Heard Of

At SMX Next yesterday I have the privilege of interviewing Hyung-Jin Kim, the Vice President of Google Search. Hyung-Jin Kim has been working on search quality for the past 20 years and leads up core ranking at Google Search. He mentioned a few times during the interview the animal Coati and I had to ask what he was referring to.

Google Posts / Updates Adds Cropping Photo Tool

Google has added to the Google Business Profiles Google Posts or Updates section the ability to use a cropping tool when you upload photos to your updates. So now you can upload photos and crop them later in the Google Updates section.

Google: We Pick Up On URL Patterns That Don’t Work But Should Slow Crawling Those URLs

Google’s John Mueller confirmed that GoogleBot will crawl and pick up on URL patterns that simply do not work on your site. I mean, we have all seen this happen time and time again with sites we manage. But John added that the crawling should slow over time as Google picks up on this.

Google: Cross Link Words In Your Content When It Is Relevant & In Context

Google’s John Mueller said that while it does make sense to cross-link between your content on your website, you should do it only when it is relevant and within the context of the content. If your users get confused by your links, so may search engines, John added.

Google AR Products & Clippable Coupons Live

It looks like the Google AR products, at least for shoes, and the clippable coupons feature is now live. If you search for various shoes or sneakers, you will see some of the product images have 3D icon that takes you into the AR feature in Google Search and some also have clippable coupons.

Google NYC Diwali Celebration

A couple of weeks ago, some Googlers at the Google New York City office put together a celebration for the holiday of Diwali. Here is one of the many videos shared on Instagram from the party.

Other Great Search Threads:

That page refers to the fact that our *overall content policies* apply to structured data — see the first sentence. Not following our *overall policies* (which include things like our spam policies) ca, Google SearchLiaison on Twitter

We recently introduced a new suggested audience — 7-day unnotified users. This includes app users who have not been reached via push notifications. Check it out in your suggested audiences in Google Analytics 4, Google Analytics on Twitter

We support all the sitemap formats (xml, txt, rss/atom) equally. The only difference is the meta-data that can be supplied, and for a part, we ignore the meta-data since it’s often inaccurate., John Mueller on Mastodon

Catastrophic site-wide de-ranking without cause, WebmasterWorld

The effect is on a per-page basis, and since crawling varies in speed, there’s no absolute answer for that. For example, i, John Mueller 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