Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Have you ever heard of the Google Coati update algorithm…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 16, 2022
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A warm welcome to Moz’s first large-scale survey on the habits of local business review readers, review writers and successful owner responses. Our survey uncovered interesting insights and actions local businesses can take to better serve their customers, earn more reviews, and build relationships. Read our free report today to peruse the findings, our thoughtful analysis, and expert commentary from local SEO industry professionals.
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Announcing: The Impact of Local Business Reviews on Consumer Behavior | SEO Industry Report
YouTube is testing shopping features and an affiliate program for Shorts, its short-form video product. New shopping features will allow users to purchase products as they scroll through Shorts.
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YouTube is testing shopping and affiliate features in Shorts
Day 2 of SMX Next starts with a keynote from former Search Engine Land editor-in-chief and now Google Ads Liaison Ginny Marvin. Marvin helps answer questions about how Google ads products and policies work and bring marketers’ insights and perspectives back to the teams working on them
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SMX Next day 2 kicks off in 1 hour with Google’s Ginny Marvin
Google is rolling out a new Shopping tab within Google Search Console that contains more information about your product snippets, merchant listings and shopping tab listings in Google Search. What is new. Google announced “eligible online store owners that have implemented product markup will see a new section called Shopping tab listings.” This is rolling out “gradually over the next few weeks,” Google said, “so you might not see any changes for now.” What it looks like
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Google Search Console adds Shopping tab listings feature
Meta is kicking off a campaign to encourage users to support small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) during the holiday shopping season. The post Meta Launches Campaign To Support Small Business Shopping appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Meta Launches Campaign To Support Small Business Shopping via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Pop quiz: What’s the definition of “SEO culture” at an enterprise company?
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Enterprise SEO is 50% education and culture
At SMX Next yesterday I have the privilege of interviewing Hyung-Jin Kim, the Vice President of Google Search. Hyung-Jin Kim has been working on search quality for the past 20 years and leads up core ranking at Google Search. He mentioned a few times during the interview the animal Coati and I had to ask what he was referring to.
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Google Coati Algorithm – The Google Update You Never Heard Of
Google has added to the Google Business Profiles Google Posts or Updates section the ability to use a cropping tool when you upload photos to your updates. So now you can upload photos and crop them later in the Google Updates section.
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Google Posts / Updates Adds Cropping Photo Tool
Google’s John Mueller confirmed that GoogleBot will crawl and pick up on URL patterns that simply do not work on your site. I mean, we have all seen this happen time and time again with sites we manage. But John added that the crawling should slow over time as Google picks up on this.
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Google: We Pick Up On URL Patterns That Don’t Work But Should Slow Crawling Those URLs