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. Google says sites hit by the old helpful content update can recover and even grow…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 6, 2024
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Navigate the Google core update. Learn how to adapt your content strategy and maintain search visibility by creating high-quality, user-focused content. The post Google Core Update: How To Write High-Ranking, High-Quality Content in 2024 appeared first on Search Engine Journal
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Google Core Update: How To Write High-Ranking, High-Quality Content in 2024 via @sejournal, @fiverr
Apple’s new AI Search will generate website summaries. Another feature, called Web Eraser, permanently removes website content The post Apple’s “Intelligent Search” Will Summarize Webpages appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Apple’s “Intelligent Search” Will Summarize Webpages via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google Analytics update lets you sync imported customer data with GA4 audiences. The post Google Connects Imported User Data To GA4 Audiences appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Google Connects Imported User Data To GA4 Audiences via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google’s John Mueller said again this morning that sites hit by the old September helpful content update or even new core updates can recovery. He said on X and on LinkedIn that it is possible to recover but it is not a simple change you can tweak on your website, but rather it takes a lot of effort, over time, to recover.
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Google: Sites Hit By The Old Helpful Content Update Can Recover & Grow
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Over the past week, many have been windblown by Statcounter reporting that Google lost significant market share in the US and worldwide from March to April 2024. It turns out it was some sort of reporting bug and Statcounter has updated the data over the weekend.
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Statcounter Fixes Search Engine Market Share Data After Incorrectly Showing Google Lost Share
Google’s John Mueller said on X that he believes Google will remove the disavow link tool “at some point” in the future. Bing dropped the disavow links tool from Bing Webmaster Tools in September 2023 and I suspect Google will also drop it from Google Search Console.
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Google Will Remove Its Disavow Link Tool At Some Point
Google Search seems to be testing showing only local listings from Google Business Profiles for many “near me” types of queries. So when you search for [dentist near me] or [indian food near me] and so on, you only get local listings and no web search results.
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Google Search Tests Showing Only Local Listing For Near Me Queries
A year ago, Google Gemini (formerly known as Bard) began linking to sources as citations and we rejoiced.
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Google Gemini Stops Linking To Most Sources?
The new AI advanced version of Google Search, aka Google SGE or Search Generative Experience, provides wicked smart AI answers to your queries. And if you ask it how to pass kidney stones quickly, Google will tell you to drink at least two quarts of urine every 24 hours.
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Google SGE Says Drink Urine To Pass Kidney Stones Quickly