Every day Search Discussion board Recap: Could 13, 2024

Here’s a recap of what occurred within the search boards at this time, by means of the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and different search boards on the net.

Google explains the variations between algorithm updates, information refreshes and extra – once more. Google Search Console would not hold information for de-indexed URLs. Google lifted among the guide actions over the location repute abuse coverage. Google mentioned the video must be tremendous apparent on the web page for it to be a video web page. Google Advertisements up to date its disclosure coverage for occasion ticket pages. Google I/O is tomorrow – I made a decision to not attend in particular person, it’s simply simpler to cowl at my desk.

Search Engine Roundtable Tales:

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  Google Once more On Distinction Between Algorithm Updates & Knowledge Refreshes
  
  
  Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, posted on X explaining the variations between algorithm updates, like core updates, after which information refreshes, the information that goes into these rating programs. That is really one thing Matt Cutts, former Googler, did again in 2006, on his weblog and now Danny Sullivan did a brief model of it on X.




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  Google Lifts Some Web site Status Abuse Coverage Penalties
  
  
  A couple of week in the past, we reported that Google started imposing its new website repute abuse coverage by issuing guide actions and rating penalties for these websites that violated these insurance policies. Google appears to be now lifting a few of these guide actions the place the websites took the required motion and now not are violating the coverage.




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  Google Search Console Does not Maintain Knowledge For Most De-Listed Pages
  
  
  Gary Illyes from Google mentioned on LinkedIn that Google Search Console would not “hold (virtually) any information for un/de-indexed.”
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  Google: Video Pages Want To Be Tremendous-Apparent Video Play Pages
  
  
  In April 2023 and December 2023 Google modified the way it classifies what it will take into account video pages. In brief, the video on the web page must be the principle piece of content material for Google to indicate it a video thumbnail within the search outcomes and to indicate it within the movies tab in Google Search.




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  Google Advertisements Updates Disclosure Coverage For Occasion Ticket Sale
  
  
  Google Advertisements might be modifying its disclosure coverage for occasion ticket sale. The replace will say that the “disclosures must be simply seen and clearly defined within the high 20% (above the fold) of any vacation spot when reached by way of an advert.”




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  Google Gemini Swag: Bag, T-Shirt, Jacket & Extra
  
  
  Google has given some people some new swag for its Gemini AI options, previously often called Bard. Listed here are some images of the Gemini luggage, t-shirts and jackets.

Different Nice Search Threads:

• Missing Google I/O – just so much easier covering it from my desk than at the event. Hope all the SEOs going have a blast!, Barry Schwartz on X
• I caught a Google test. Check out the posts on this listing; they’re FB posts, not GBP posts. Can’t see it again. Has anyone seen this?, Amy Mattison Toman on X
• Noticed a few changes on Google’s local panel: Reviews now appear in a block card format with filter options. Both image/video and text reviews are displayed in this new format directly on the local panel, visible at the right, Shameem Adhikarath on X
• I work for the Google Search teams. Not the PR team. Also, I’ll give you a little background here. Maybe you’ll find it helpful, maybe not., Google SearchLiaison on X
• not gpt-5, not a search engine, but we’ve been hard at work on some new stuff we think people will love! feels like magic to me. monday 10am PT., Sam Altman on X
• a page cannot both have a noindex robots meta tag and redirect. It can only be one or the other. – a page blocked by robots.txt will not be crawled, so Googleb, John Mueller on X

Search Engine Land Tales:

Different Nice Search Tales:

Analytics

Business & Enterprise

• Big Tech regulatory crackdown spreads to Asia and Australia, Monetary Instances (Sub)
• Google layoffs in SF impact dozens, KRON4
• Sam Altman shoots down reports of search engine launch ahead of Google I/O, The Verge
• Apple Closes in on Deal With OpenAI to Put ChatGPT on iPhone, Bloomberg
• All About Googleplex, Google’s Main HQ: Size, Cost; Other Offices, Enterprise Insider
• An Ex-Google Employee Shares Layoff Indicators, Red Flags, Enterprise Insider
• Microsoft to invest 4 billion euros in France, Reuters

Hyperlinks & Content material Advertising and marketing

Native & Maps

Cellular & Voice

website positioning

PPC

Search Options

Different Search

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