Daily Search Forum Recap: June 25, 2024

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

We’re seeing extra well being associated Google AI Overviews for the reason that weekend and they’re fairly good. Google launched new bank card carousels within the search outcomes. Google is automating its Native Service Advertisements lead credit, which upset numerous advertisers. Google clarified its sitemaps assist documentation across the lastmod discipline. And Google is testing extra sitelinks variations.

Search Engine Roundtable Tales:

• Google Search Showing More Health Related AI Overviews
  
  Ever for the reason that Ray Google AI Overviews replace, Google scaled again displaying AI Overviews in Google Seek for some YMYL classes, particularly within the well being house. However now we’re seeing increasingly more AI Overviews displaying up for health-related queries for the reason that weekend.
• Google Automated Local Services Ads Lead Credits Coming
  
  Google introduced it’s rolling out Automated Native Companies Advertisements lead credit subsequent month, which ought to “credit score the identical or extra leads on common,” than the outdated system. It will substitute the guide lead credit score strategies, and use machine studying to course of these credit going ahead.
• Google Credit Card Search Widget
  
  Google Search now might present you a particular search field in your searches associated to discovering a bank card. In the event you seek for [credit cards], [best credit cards], [visa credit cards], and so forth, you’ll get this new bank card Google Search widget.
• Google Mobile Search Tests More Sitelink Variations
  
  Google is testing plenty of sitelink variations inside its cell search outcomes interface. They arrive in these variations: boxed in, pill-like formed, some with arrows, some in black, and a few in blue.
• Google Sitemaps Docs Updated: Lasmod Date Should Be Last Significant Update
  
  Google has made a small be aware to the sitemap documentation so as to add that the lastmod date specified within the sitemap file “ought to replicate the date and time of the final vital replace to the web page.” This transformation was made after I lined the subject of Google trusting or not trusting that lastmod discipline in your sitemap file.
• Cafe Yui With Japanese Clothing at Google
  
  Right here is one final picture from Daniel Waisberg’s journey to the Google workplace in Japan. It’s of a restaurant named Cafe Yui with some Japanese clothes, which supposedly goes collectively?

Different Nice Search Threads:

• 4 ways to find great prices on Google during summer sales @google https://t.co/0gVAMzOPQP (covered all of these before, I guess some are now fully live…), Barry Schwartz on X
• After Apple Intelligence was announced at WWDC, I shared about the new documentation published by Apple for blocking Applebot-Extended (to block Apple from using your content to train its AI models). Checking a number of top news pu, Glenn Gabe on X
• Anyone else seeing old school Google page navigation being tested more and more in smaller countries (only when logged out)?, SEOwner on X
• Just released a small update to 20.2 of the @screamingfrog SEO Spider – https://t.co/7YrlN6MqfD. Mainly small improvements & bug fixes with the latest release., Screaming Frog on X
• Multiple Listings For The Same Firm Problems Still Ongoing in Google Local Services Ads, Anthony Higman on X
• SEO Tip: when doing index coverage analysis for large sites (100K+ pages), one of my favourite and easiest methods to use is filtering by sitemap. If the site has all of their XML sitemaps submitted individually in Google Search C, Brodie Clark on X
• So Google is taking the how-to articles and creating their own modules. The reference lots of sites but none that were in the top 10 in the past 12 months – that all changed this week, Melissa Fach on X

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