Daily Search Forum Recap: January 29, 2025

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

Posted on: 29 January 2025 | 9:00 am

Google Expands Site Reputation Abuse Enforcement To German Sites

Google has once again expanded the reach of its site reputation abuse policy, beyond the US enforcement from from May and beyond limited European regions last week - we are now seeing enforcement in the massive German market.

Posted on: 29 January 2025 | 6:51 am

Google Search Console Reports Latest Update In 30 Minute Intervals

Google may have pushed some improvements to the reporting system within Google Search Console. Now Google can show how soon the report was updated within a 30 minute interval. So instead of showing last updated 3 hours ago or 4 hours ago, as an example, Google can show 3.5 hours ago.

Posted on: 29 January 2025 | 6:41 am

Google Ads Clarifies Docs Around Placement Exclusions After Confusion

Earlier this month, the Google Ads industry had a lot of confusion around if and in what cases the Google Ads API accept or support placement exclusions for Performance Max campaigns. Well, Google's Ginny Marvin clarified this the other day in an email to Navah Hopkins.

Posted on: 29 January 2025 | 6:31 am

Google AI Overviews Now Providing Programming Help

Google AI Overviews, even when not signed into a Google Labs project, is providing coding and programming examples and help. This started sometime yesterday, I believe, and before, I believe you had to opt into a Search Labs experiment to trigger this.

Posted on: 29 January 2025 | 6:21 am

Google: SEOs Can Spot Made For Search Engine Content Quickly

John Mueller from Google noted that he finds it "interesting" how those who spend time in our industry "can often recognize made-for-search-engine content fairly quickly." Meaning, we are good at seeing a piece of content on the web and knowing if it was created to perform well in search or written by a normal user trying to help others.

Posted on: 29 January 2025 | 6:11 am

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 28, 2025

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

Posted on: 28 January 2025 | 9:00 am

Google Ads New Used Since Column For PMax

Google Ads is testing adding a new column to its Performance Max reports named "Used Since." This column is visible on the asset level and it shows the date an asset was added.

Posted on: 28 January 2025 | 6:51 am

Google: Merging Content More Challenging Than Site Moves For SEO

John Mueller from Google said that merging content is always more challenging than a basic site move. Meaning, when you take a look at your content on your site and decide to merge a bunch of the content into fewer URLs, that takes longer for Google to handle than moving a site from domain A to domain B with no other changes.

Posted on: 28 January 2025 | 6:41 am

URL Is Unknown To Google In Search Console Means URL Has No Priority

Gary Illyes from Google said that if a URL has a status within Google Search Console as "URL is unknown to Google" that means that URL is really unknown to Google and has zero priority within Google Search systems.

Posted on: 28 January 2025 | 6:31 am

Google Business Profiles Now Allows Bulk Managing Special Hours

Google has added a method to bulk manage the special hours for all the businesses you manage in Google Business Profiles. You can easily copy special hours from one business listing to others.

Posted on: 28 January 2025 | 6:21 am

Google Search Tests Frequently Saved Label On Local Results

Google Search is testing the frequently saved label not just in the main search results but also on the local results, the places section, of the Google Search results.

Posted on: 28 January 2025 | 6:11 am

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 27, 2025

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

Posted on: 27 January 2025 | 9:00 am

Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiked Friday Jan 24 Through Weekend

Google Search may have pushed some unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update or tweak around Friday, January 24th. I briefly mentioned this on my Friday video but I felt it was worth kicking up here as its own story.

Posted on: 27 January 2025 | 6:51 am

Yahoo Search AI Chat Expanded & Adds AI Answers To Search

Yahoo is continuing its AI Chat features within Yahoo Search, while also incorporating AI Answers into its search results. The AI powered answers and chat seemed to be powered by OpenAI.

Posted on: 27 January 2025 | 6:41 am