What an absolutely wild month in Google Land – between the Google Search API leak, the intense ranking volatility in May, and AI Overviews launching and all the hoopla around that. Let’s not forget the ongoing core update, the site reputation abuse, the Search Console bugs and so much more.
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June 2024 Google Webmaster Report
Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, said on X, “you or anyone who shares constructive feedback about our results should not feel like we’d be upset with them.” He went on to explain that “complaints and feedback are opportunities.”
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Google: We’re Not Upset With Those Who Share Constructive Feedback Of Our Search Results
A bunch of SEOs are now experimenting with how they can show up in the Google AI Overviews, not just remove themselves from AI Overviews.
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SEOing Into Google’s AI Overviews
Google seems to be testing renaming Google Discover to maybe Google Home or maybe Google Browse. I mean, it is not shocking Google would renamed Discover to something else. Discover was previously named the Google feed and I think before that it was Google Now.
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Google App To Rename Discover To Home & Browse?
As a reminder, Google has reiterated that when Google receives a search spam report, it does not take direct action against the violation or violating site. Instead, Google uses that feedback to its spam detection systems that hopefully will take action algorithmically in the future against the violation.
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PSA: Google Doesn’t Take Direct Action Over Violations Submitted Via Spam Reports
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Google Search Console Complete Guide For SEO via @sejournal, @lorenbaker
Google has been super volatile over the past several weeks and now I am seeing even more volatility touch down on the first day of June, this past Saturday. It actually was a pretty heated weekend, with many of the tools showing extreme volatility and the chatter within the SEO community was unusually high for a weekend.
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June 1st Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 31, 2024
Google addresses concerns about AI overviews, while continuing to claim they lead to higher user satisfaction and more clicks. The post Google To Limit AI Overviews For “Nonsensical” Queries appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Google To Limit AI Overviews For “Nonsensical” Queries via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
This was one heck of a week with Google’s search ranking data features being leaked…
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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Rank Data Leak, Google Volatility, Search Console Link Decline & Google On AI Overviews