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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 8, 2022

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September 8, 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.

Are we seeing big movements with the Google helpful content update? Well, it depends what you consider a big movement. Google updated its review type results and it may impact your Search Console reports. Google is testing site name above the URL in the search results. Google Ads has a new setup ad groups column set. I also posted the monthly Google webmaster report a week late but it is live.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

Google Helpful Content Update Movement? Yes But Not Widespread.

There seems to be a lot of confusion around the Google helpful content update and if it is “big” or not big. That all depends on if you were hit by it, if you were, oh boy is it really big for you. But in terms of how widespread it is, so far, it is not affecting many many sites.

Google Updated Review-Type Results That Can Impact Search Console Reports

Google has posted that it began upgrading some review-type results to product-type results in Search, and has been able to generate some new product type results. This started on August 22, 2022 and as a result, your Search Console performance and rich results report may be impacted.

September 2022 Google Webmaster Report

I am a week late with the monthly Google webmaster report because I was on vacation and these are a pain to put together. But it is important and I wanted to catch you all up on the changes with Google SEO, webmaster, and organic search over the past month.

New Google Ads Setup Ad Groups Column Options

Google is adding a new set of data metrics to the Google Ads ad groups column reports. The new options are under a section called “Setup” and include eight new metrics.

Google Tests Site Name Above URL In Mobile Search Results & Rounded Favicons Again

Google is testing, again, placing the site name above the URL and description in the mobile search result snippets. Also, we are seeing more rounded favicons in those snippets as well.

Dragon At Google Singapore

Here is a cool photo from the Google office in Singapore. There is this neat cut out of a dragon. It was for some sort of event at the Google office there.

Other Great Search Threads:

First time seeing co-viewed numbers (column) reported in Google Ads. I’ve watched the YouTube video on it like 6 times but still don’t think I actually understand how it’s measured., Greg on Twitter

SEO is all about not making Googlebot guess or interpret your actions. If you want something specific to happen, then do what’s needed for that. If technically you can’t do the righ, John Mueller on Twitter

AdSense Earnings and Observations – September 2022, WebmasterWorld

Google has added a recommendations panel to GA4 that can show at the top of standard reports. Here we see a recommendation to create a predictive audience for purchasers to use in Google Ads., Charles Farina on Twitter

Google’s Nannybot strikes again rejecting a Google Post for this image. Who exactly is Google protecting from whom?, Mike Blumenthal on Twitter

Here are 5 sites that appear to be affected by the Helpful Content Update IDK what makes the lyrics/grammar sites that much less helpful than their top-ranking counterparts; the content is virtually the same. Perhaps more a, Lily Ray on Twitter

Here are some examples of lyrics sites that have gotten hammered based on the Helpful Content Update. I’ll be digging in further, talking to people in the space about this, etc., so stay tuned. But again, there’s a ton of impa, Glenn Gabe on Twitter

I see these every now and then. The sites still count as being slow, since they are slow. They just deceive themselves, and make it harder for someone to fix. Hiding dirty dishes under, John Mueller on Twitter

If you write anything for SEO, internally or publicly, please watch our for inclusive language. It doesn’t take much work, and you might not get it right all the time, but taking steps to get better, John Mueller on Twitter

Yes, it’s true — our systems try to work out what the most purposely-noindexed page is, and alert you about that. -_- (That said, noindexing the privacy policy doesn’t really, 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