Daily Search Forum Recap: August 7, 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.

Some Google News publishers are noticing their new stories are not getting into Google News in a timely fashion. OpenAI has finally released a way to block its crawler, GPTBot. Google Ads released a guide on RSAs. Google Business Profiles as a new Pets attribute. Google Merchant Center warning for inappropriate title is plaguing some merchants. I have a new vlog out with Lance Bachmann.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

• Google New Publisher Center Complaints - More Google News Indexing Issues?
  Over the past several days, some news publishers have complained that their new articles are not showing up on time in Google News and the Google News Publisher Center.
• OpenAI\'s ChatGPT New Web Crawler - GPTBot
  OpenAI, the folks behind ChatGPT, have published information on its web crawler named GPTBot. You can now see if OpenAI is crawling your site, how much so, and you can disallow access to all or part of your site with the robots.txt protocol.
• Google Ads Releases New Responsive Search Ads Guide (PDF)
  Google has released a new Google Ads PDF guide for RSAs, responsive search ads. The new guide is a 9-page PDF document that can be downloaded here.
• New Google Business Profiles Pets Attribute (Are Dogs Allowed)
  Google has added a new attribute to Google Business Profiles. This one is titled "Pets" and you can specify if dogs are allowed inside and/or if dogs are allowed outside your business establishment.
• Inappropriate Title Google Merchant Center Warning
  Google Merchant Center can now issue warnings for "inappropriate titles." This can happen for your Google Discover or Demand Gen ads within Google Merchant Center.
• Vlog #235: Lance Bachmann On Growing A Winning Digital Marketing Agency
  I met up at one of Lance Bachmann\'s businesses, 1SEO Digital Agency, where we chatted about marketing and running a business. Lance started doing digital marketing over 20 years, and while he owns five other companies...
• Google Metal Stairs
  We have seen some cool stair cases at Google, he is a short one but also pretty cool. These look like those industrial metal stair cases, but here Google painted the super G Google logo on it.

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