It finally happened, we got a new core update, the Google August 2024 core update touched down on August 15th.
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September 2024 Google Webmaster Report
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A few months ago, we posted some answers about how YouTube ranking is affected by various variables and factors – YouTube SEO questions and answers, if you will. Well, the YouTube Liaison posted a number of short video answers around the YouTube algorithm and YouTube SEO over the past week that I wanted to share.
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YouTube SEO Questions Answered
Google will discontinue the Google Trends email subscription service on October 29, 2024. Google sent emails to those who had subscribed to Google Trends over email saying, “Google Trends trend notifications will no longer be supported and existing alerts will no longer be sent.”
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Google Trends Email Subscriptions Going Away Next Month
Microsoft recently added an animation or highlight effect on its featured answers or knowledge panels at the top of its Bing Search results. When you hover your mouse over the table of content on the left side, the section it corresponds to in the answer, will expand.
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Bing Knowledge Panel & Featured Answers Table Of Contents Animation
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Google is testing a new shape and maybe colors for the map pins they use in Google Search and Google Maps. The new shape is less of a pin/diamond shape and more of a circle shape.
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Google Tests New Map Pin Shapes
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Google’s John Mueller offered a useful tip for optimizing favicons The post Googler’s Tip About Favicons Can Make A Big Difference appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Googler’s Tip About Favicons Can Make A Big Difference via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 2, 2024
Google Analytics, GA4, seems to be rolling out benchmarking data, similar to Universal Analytics before it. This feature lets you compare your analytics data to others in your same industry – so you can benchmark how well or poorly you are doing.
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New Google Analytics 4 Benchmarking Data
Google announced on Friday that they finally natively support AVIF image file types for Google Search, Google Images and anywhere Google Search uses images, such as Google News, Google Discover and more.
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Google Search Finally Supports AVIF Images