Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 8, 2024
New managed WordPress cloud hosting built on top of Automattic’s WP Cloud infrastructure delivers speed and security with a 100% uptime The post WordPress Announces Bluehost Managed Cloud Hosting appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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WordPress Announces Bluehost Managed Cloud Hosting via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google to discontinue its “Add Me To Search” people cards feature, citing limited helpfulness for users since its launch. The post Google To Remove “Add Me To Search” People Cards In April appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Google To Remove “Add Me To Search” People Cards In April via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
It was a busy week between Google releasing the Google March 2024 core update, which is supposed to be one of the largest core updates Google has ever released. Google also released a March 2024 spam update. Google updates a number of its spam policies while dishing out tons of manual actions…
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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google March Core & Spam Updates, Manual Actions, Spam Policies, Bing Webmaster Tools & Deep Search
Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, said again that the search company “generally try to avoid” overlapping algorithmic updates. This is after Google released both the March 2024 core update and March 2024 spam update the same day.
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Google: We Still Try To Avoid Overlapping Algorithmic Updates
Google is testing a button in the search results under the top stories news results to see “more news topics.” I personally cannot replicate this, which makes me think this is new.
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Google Tests More News Topics Button
Google Ads now limits the number of country-level exclusions you can add to your ads to 120 countries. This is a new limit but Google confirmed that location exclusions aren’t going away.
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Google Ads Country-Level Exclusions Limited To 120 Countries
Discover valuable advice and inspiring stories from SEO professionals about work-life balance and empowering women and non-binary individuals in the industry. The post SEO Work & Life Balance: Advice And Inspiring Resources You Should Follow appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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SEO Work & Life Balance: Advice And Inspiring Resources You Should Follow
Remember People Cards? Probably not.
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Google Search People Cards Going Away On April 7
Google has updated its Google Business Profile help documentation to add a line saying that Google may show your social media posts in Search if you have associated your social media links via your Google Business Profile.
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Google May Show Your Social Media Posts In Search (via Google Business Profiles)