Daily Search Forum Recap: August 16, 2023

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 launched SGE while browsing which can summarize your webpage. Google also added contextual links for definitions in the SGE responses. Google Business Profiles is adding a way to manage social media links. Google Posts image uploads are not working. Microsoft Advertising updated its advertiser identity verification policy.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

• Google SGE While Browsing - Search Generative Experience On The Browser
  Google\'s next step for its Search Generative Experience is SGE while browsing. In Chrome on desktop and in the mobile Google app on iOS and Android, Google SGE can summarize longer web page content for you. Yea, it is similar to Bing Chat\'s Edge sidebar feature.
• Google Search Generative Experience Now Has Definition Overlay Links
  Google has added those definition-based contextual links to some of the words placed in the Search Generative Experience answers and results. This is very similar to the featured snippet injected definition links but in this case, you can trigger a conversation in SGE when you ask for more details.
• Add Social Media Links To Your Google Business Profiles
  Google seems to now support adding social media links to your Google Business Profiles. You can add your Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, TikTok, X (formerly known as Twitter), YouTube and other social links to your business profile.
• Google Business Profile Posts Image Upload Not Working
  Google Business Profiles posts feature is not accepting images for the past day or so. When you try to upload an image or photo to your new Google Posts, nothing will happen, it will just not upload the photo.
• Microsoft Advertising Relaxes Advertiser Identity Verification
  In June, we reported that Microsoft Advertising would require advertiser identity verification. Well, Microsoft posted an update relaxing those requirements in a big way.
• Moz Google Algorithm Temperature Dress At Mozcon
  Check out this dress! This is a copy of the Mozcast temperature chart that Dr. Pete Meyers put together over here. She wore the dress at Mozcon last week. How neat. Oh, I think she had a number of

Other Great Search Threads:

• Amazonbot, WebmasterWorld
• From January to March 2024, all remaining Discovery campaigns will be automatically upgraded to Demand Gen to prepare you for the new year with more AI-powered features that drive demand., Greg on Twitter
• Not sure if this light blue + white text in the Google search bar is a test. Don\'t recall seeing it before/couldn\'t find any other examples, and struggling to recreate., Ethan Lazuk on Twitter
• The new User Data export is now rolling out to GA4 properties. This is a new export for BigQuery! For the first time, it exposes what Audiences users are included in, as well as the predictive metrics (churn, revenue, prop, Charles Farina on Twitter
• If Google\'s not recrawling those 200 pages in 2 weeks, they\'re probably not deemed that important, so I wouldn\'t worry about it., John Mueller on Twitter
• There\'s a lot more involved with ranking than just the domain name, so I don\'t think that\'s an "all things are otherwise equal" comparison. Anyone can buy a domain name with a keyword in it, that doesn\'t mean the content is somehow relevant to users, John Mueller on Mastodon

Search Engine Land Stories:

Other Great Search Stories:

Analytics

Industry & Business

Links & Content Marketing

Local & Maps

Mobile & Voice

SEO

• Does Google Search use SEO scores? #AskGooglebot, Google Search Central YouTube
• Forget SEO: Why \'AI Engine Optimization\' may be the future, VentureBeat
• How to Create an SEO Business Case (Free Template!), Gray Dot Co
• The what, when, and why behind the demise of FAQs & How-to, STAT Search Analytics
• 5 Ways SEOs Should Embrace Content Teams, Rank Ranger
• Generative AI and SEO: Revolutionizing content creation, Yoast
• How to scale local SEO, SERP\'s Up SEO Podcast
• Time to First Byte: What is it and why is it important? (Part II), Oncrawl

PPC

Search Features

Other Search

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