Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 9, 2022
Google Search Console is experimenting with a new feature named “content ideas.” Content ideas give the content creator, publisher, SEO, webmaster, etc., some tips and advice on what new topics they can write about on their site.
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Content ideas may be coming to Google Search Console
This week we had another confirmed update to the Google helpful content system; it is now global.
I recently read Ziemek Bucko’s fascinating article, Rendering Queue: Google Needs 9X More Time To Crawl JS Than HTML , on the Onely blog. Bucko described a test they did showing significant delays by Googlebot following links in JavaScript-reliant pages compared to links in plain-text HTML.
It is that time of the year again when Google publishes its top searches for the year.
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Google 2022 Year In Search – Top Searches
Earlier this week, Google announced it has begun to roll out the new topics + sign refinement options in the English/US on mobile search results. But it seems Google is also testing them.
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Google Tests +Topic Search Bar Refinements On Desktop After Launching On Mobile
It is that time of year when content creators take their content that has been performing well and updates it from the 2022 edition to the 2023 edition. But updating the references of 2022 to 2023 is not enough, and Google says only do that when you make a significant update to that content.
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2023 Edition: Google Says Only Update The Date When Significantly Updating The Content
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Gary Illyes from Google loves posting his PSAs on Mastodon. His next PSA is that if you are using a CDN or cloud hosting service, then make sure to test up a routine test to ensure that the service is not blocking Googlebot or other search engine crawlers that you want to crawl and index your site.
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Google: Using A CDN Or Cloud Hosting, Set Up Routine Tests To Ensure Googlebot Is Not Blocked
John Mueller of Google has always downplayed the importance of HTML sitemaps over the years, he is a fan of XML sitemaps, but HTML sitemaps, not so much. On Mastodon the other day he really showed his dissatisfaction of HTML sitemaps by saying that HTML sitemaps “should never be needed.”
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Google’s John Mueller Says HTML Sitemaps Should Never Be Needed
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Arches At The Google Carpenter Chicago Office