Each day Search Discussion board Recap: April 19, 2024

Here’s a recap of what occurred within the search boards at the moment, by the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and different search boards on the internet.

Google is testing extra advert codecs for its search adverts. BingBot is testing new compression strategies. Google mentioned it’s unlikely your rankings would drop simply because you will have two or extra websites. Google says the indexing API may work for unsupported codecs. Google mentioned hyphenated domains are usually not dangerous by themselves. And I posted the weekly website positioning video recap.

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Search Engine Roundtable Tales:

Search Information Buzz Video Recap: Google Core Replace Flux, AdSense Advert Intent, California Hyperlink Tax & Extra

The Google March 2024 core replace remains to be rolling out, virtually 6 weeks now, and we noticed two shifts of rating volatility, each mid-week and the weekend earlier than. Google’s Danny Sullivan went on the defensive on search high quality and discussion board listings…

Google Exams Extra Google Advert Card Codecs

Google is testing one other advert format, one other card like format, for its search adverts. We beforehand noticed the vertical and tall advert playing cards, then the carousel horizontal card format and now listed here are simply plain horizontal advert playing cards.

Google: It is Unlikely Your Rankings Dropped As a result of You Have Two Web sites

Google was requested if having two web sites and Google discovering out about them would trigger the web sites to drop in rankings. John Mueller from Google mentioned that’s “not going,” including that many individuals have a number of web sites and that’s high quality.

Google: Indexing API Might Work For Unsupported Content material However…

Gary Illyes from Google mentioned within the current Google website positioning workplace hours the Google Indexing API may match for unsupported content material codecs, however that you just should not be “shocked if instantly it stopped working for unsupported verticals in a single day.”

Google: Are Hyphenated Domains Are Unhealthy For Google Rating?

The subject of utilizing hyphens in domains is among the oldest website positioning matters we now have on this house. Heck, in 2004, SEOs mentioned there was a particular Google rating algorithm that filtered out domains with hyphens in them (Google didn’t by the way in which).

Bingbot To Check Zstd Compression After Totally Gaining Full Brotli Compression

Fabrice Canel from Microsoft introduced that BingBot now absolutely helps Brotli compression and can quickly be testing zstd Zstandard compression, a lossless knowledge compression, for its crawler.

Google Cloud Socks

Google likes to print socks for its numerous swag and listed here are two variations of socks from the Google Cloud staff. I just like the white socks as a result of they give the impression of being extra retro however listed here are nicer variations as nicely.

Different Nice Search Threads:

From a practical POV, you can specify your prices using structured data on the page, with a merchant center feed (which many ecommerce systems can make for you) or manually in merchant center., John Mueller on X

I passed this on. I don’t think there’s anything special going on here, but the feedback on this being confusing is good to pass on., John Mueller on X

If you have older reports that are still helpful, you’ll just need to click the View “button” and access ones you want to remain active., AdsLiaison on X

The way I see this is more that there are things which can be recognized & ignored, but a site might still be appropriate to show (I don’t know this site/query). Folks get bad SEO advice, and if that can be neutralized granularly without broader effects, , John Mueller on X

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Cellular & Voice

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