Daily Search Forum Recap: July 8, 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.

I am seeing extra Google Search weekend volatility – one thing is up (or down). I posted some YouTube search engine marketing subjects, the place Google stated visitors sources solely have an effect on the identical visitors sources. Google Search Console has/had a brand new proprietor notification bug. Google up to date its URL finest practices doc round fragments in URLs. Google Maps has this new “add cease” commercial. Google says in case you are rating for unrelated key phrases, perhaps attempt to be little extra clear along with your content material.

Search Engine Roundtable Tales:

• July 4th Weekend Google Search Ranking Update & Volatility
  
  Shock, shock, it was one other weekend and we once more see some greater than normal rating volatility from Google Search. Once more, this jogs my memory of the weekend rating bug Google had late final yr into early this yr. However who is aware of, perhaps it’s only a rating system that shuffles issues up for weekend searchers?
• YouTube Traffic Sources Affect Same Traffic Sources, Not Different Traffic Sources
  
  I do not cowl YouTube search engine marketing right here a lot however I discovered a submit from the YouTube Liaison speaking about how visitors sources are impacted. Briefly, the YouTube house web page suggestions are affected by viewers watching movies from the house web page and never affected by exterior views, individuals watching your movies on an exterior web site.
• Google URL Best Practices Updated: Don’t Use Fragments To Change Page Content
  
  Google has up to date its URL construction finest practices for Google Search assist documentation to inform us once more to not use URL fragments to alter the content material on that web page. Google added this line, “Do not use fragments to alter the content material of a web page, as Google typically would not help fragment URLs. If you happen to’re utilizing JavaScript to alter content material, use the Historical past API as an alternative.”
• Google Maps Add Stop Advertisements
  
  Do you know that Google Maps can counsel that you just add a cease alongside the way in which as an commercial or sponsored route alongside the way in which? It pops up as you might be driving and asks you if you wish to “Add cease” or “Cancel.”
• Google: Ranking For Unrelated Keywords In Search? Make Your Titles & Content Clearer
  
  Have you ever ever had a web site that ranks for unrelated key phrases, queries you don’t want to rank for? John Mueller from Google stated in case you do, perhaps you need to make your title and content material clearer if they’re too amibiguious.
• Google Search Console New Owner Notifications Bug?
  
  There are quite a few studies of Google sending out e mail notifications about there being new house owners added to your Search Console profiles. The brand new proprietor notification emails have been going out since Friday of final week or so and appear to be a part of some bug.
• GooglePlex Outdoor Ski Lift
  
  Google loves their ski lifts and we have coated that many places of work have them. Right here is one on the GooglePlex at some occasion, it looks like a stationary one simply so Googlers can take images on it.

Different Nice Search Threads:

Search Engine Land Tales:

Different Nice Search Tales:

Analytics

Business & Enterprise

Hyperlinks & Content material Advertising

Native & Maps

Cell & Voice

search engine marketing

• Implementing Schema Markup on Multilingual Sites, Schema App Options
• SEO OKRs: Driving Performance & Measuring Impact, Ahrefs
• Square Zero: 5 Survival Tips for Better Keyword Research, TopRank
• Unlocking Growth Through Enterprise SaaS SEO, Ahrefs
• Geo-Visualisation of Googlebot’s Crawling, Tame The Bots
• How To Perform Your Own EEAT Audit Through The Lens Of A Machine, Daniel Ok Cheung
• Optimizing for AI Overviews, Moz
• Digging into the Video Content Modules of Google’s API Leak, Girls in Tech search engine marketing
• Optimizing Product Variations for SEO, Neil Patel
• Sitemap Monitoring and Alerts for Pages Changed, Added or Removed, SEOTesting

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