Daily Search Forum Recap: March 5, 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 Enterprise Profiles web sites at the moment are offline and redirecting elsewhere. Google up to date its StoreBot person agent. Google Search is testing a extra colourful buttoned up search app. Google Advertisements formally launched its “options” software. Microsoft added Copilot settings to Bing Search. Microsoft Promoting launched Efficiency Max globally.

Oh, and yea, there was a giant large large Google March 2024 core replace and March 2024 spam updates – extra on that tomorrow as I dig by means of the early impression. I wrote about it intimately on Search Engine Land however extra tomorrow from Search Engine Roundtable.

Search Engine Roundtable Tales:

• Google Shut Down Google Business Profiles Websites This Morning
  
  Yesterday we reported that regardless of Google saying they might shutdown and redirect the Google Enterprise Profile web sites on March 1st – they have been nonetheless working. Effectively, as of this morning, March 5, 2024, these web sites not work.
• New Copilot Settings Now In Bing Search
  
  Microsoft is including new copilot settings to Bing Search. These settings allow you to outline if you’d like Copilot to point out responses on the search outcomes web page and if you wish to scroll as much as see Copilot.
• Microsoft Advertising Performance Max Globally Available Today
  
  Microsoft introduced that Efficiency Max campaigns can be found globally on Microsoft Promoting at this time, March fifth. So now any advertiser can begin utilizing PMax campaigns.
• Google Ads Solutions Tool Now Officially Live
  
  A few months in the past, we caught Google testing Google Advertisements options below the instruments, bulk actions part. Effectively, now, Google formally introduced it on its Google Advertisements developer weblog.
• Google Search App Tests Colorful Search Buttons
  
  Google is testing new specialty search buttons to entry search by picture, translate, homework, and track. The Google App at the moment has this slider to entry these search options however now Google is testing 4 colourful icons that may be tapped with out swiping to see the choices.
• Google Updates Google StoreBot User Agent With Dynamic Chrome Version
  
  Google has up to date the Google StoreBot person agent to make use of a placeholder model of Chrome. So as a substitute of it utilizing a selected Chrome model, it now can use a dynamic model of the Chrome model.

Different Nice Search Threads:

• 87% of the domains didn’t even resolve -> Based on more of my tweets about the disavow tool, and how 99.99% of site owners DO NOT need to use it, I had two more site owners reach out about nuking their files. Both ended up removing t, Glenn Gabe on X
• Are link-based penalties still a thing? Can your website get penalized because of the backlinks point at it?, Tim Soulo on X
• ChatGPT can now read responses to you. On iOS or Android, tap and hold the message and then tap “Read Aloud”. We’ve also started rolling on web – click the “Read Aloud” button below the message., OpenAI on X
• Hey Greg, I get the thought, but this impacts Search ad groups that haven’t received impressions for over a year. We don’t expect pausing ad groups that have been idle for at least 13 months to have a noticeable impact on, AdsLiaison on X
• I’ll be straightforward & make some assumptions: if you’re focusing on “signals” like this, your website is probably not as well-aligned on users. Instead of hoping some signals from a subdomain propagate up, why not just, John Mueller on X
• If you’re moving URLs, even if you’re a month late, I’d try to get the redirects in. You will very likely see a significant effect as it is now, with redirects you might be able to get some of that ba, John Mueller on X
• Well, this is a new one — a site that’s cloaking a HTTP 418 to Googlebot smartphone but serving users normally. When we said we switched Search to caffeine, this was not what we meant., John Mueller on X

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