Daily Search Forum Recap: May 13, 2024

Here’s a recap of what occurred within the search boards at present, 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 positioning popularity abuse coverage. Google stated the video must be tremendous apparent on the web page for it to be a video web page. Google Adverts up to date its disclosure coverage for occasion ticket pages. Google I/O is tomorrow – I made a decision to not attend in individual, it’s simply simpler to cowl at my desk.

Search Engine Roundtable Tales:

• Google Again On Difference Between Algorithm Updates & Data Refreshes
  
  Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, posted on X explaining the variations between algorithm updates, like core updates, after which information refreshes, the info that goes into these rating programs. That is truly 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.
• Google Lifts Some Site Reputation Abuse Policy Penalties
  
  A few week in the past, we reported that Google started implementing its new website popularity 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 not are violating the coverage.
• Google Search Console Doesn’t Keep Data For Most De-Indexed Pages
  
  Gary Illyes from Google stated on LinkedIn that Google Search Console would not “hold (nearly) any information for un/de-indexed.”
• Google: Video Pages Need To Be Super-Obvious Video Play Pages
  
  In April 2023 and December 2023 Google modified the way it classifies what it could think about video pages. Briefly, the video on the web page must be the primary piece of content material for Google to point out it a video thumbnail within the search outcomes and to point out it within the movies tab in Google Search.
• Google Ads Updates Disclosure Policy For Event Ticket Sale
  
  Google Adverts shall be modifying its disclosure coverage for occasion ticket sale. The replace will say that the “disclosures ought to be simply seen and clearly defined within the prime 20% (above the fold) of any vacation spot when reached by way of an advert.”
• Google Gemini Swag: Bag, T-Shirt, Jacket & More
  
  Google has given some people some new swag for its Gemini AI options, previously often known as Bard. Listed here are some photographs 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

Native & Maps

Cell & Voice

search engine optimisation

PPC

Search Options

Different Search

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