Daily Search Forum Recap: September 13, 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.

We are seeing the first signs of a Google update after the confirmed August 2023 core update, maybe the first set of post-update tremors? An advertiser said they lost thousands of dollars in Google Ads budget after being put in an ads experiment they did not want to be in. Bing Chat is working on custom instructions. Google said meta description lengths do not matter to rankings. Google also said there is no "back to the same" after doing a website revamp.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

Other Great Search Threads:

• August 2023 Google Core Update The @seoClarity Rank Fluctuation tracker (based on all our US keywords) 1 - start of the core update rollout (8/22) 2 - end of the rollout (9/7) Interesting we saw a spike to 51% volatility on the final day, which tape, Mark Traphagen on X
• It is the same in both Consumer Bing Chat and BCE. We will expand it, but not quickly: all the algorithms are quadratic in context size, so, increasing to 8K would be 4x more expensive.(2) Mikhail Parakhin on X: "@AdamPFarnsworth It is the same in both Co, Mikhail Parakhin on X
• No. It means if you make a new website (revamping the old), you will have a new website. You can\'t change everything and expect folks to act like nothing changed. You\'re making changes for a reason, maybe to "improve your SEO" - it wouldn\'t be ok to have , John Mueller on X
• Pro tip: there\'s no "301 conspiracy". There\'s nobody trying to sell you 302 redirects., John Mueller on X
• Thinking is best done with your head, not left to a language model., John Mueller on X
• This commonly comes from international versions being essentially identical (eg multiple English versions being the same) and is by design. A page doesn\'t need to be canonical in order to be considered for hreflang., John Mueller on X

Search Engine Land Stories:

Other Great Search Stories:

Analytics

Industry & Business

Links & Content Marketing

Local & Maps

Mobile & Voice

SEO

• Ask the experts: paywalls, subscription and SEO, The Audiencers
• Blog Post Checklist: Check All Prior to Hitting “Publish”, SEO Smarty
• Get your data included in Google Knowledge Graph with schema markup, Oncrawl
• Google August 2023 Core Update: Winners, Losers & Analysis, Amsive
• SEO for Publishers: How to Maximize Content Visibility, Semrush
• What Is an SEO Specialist and How to Become One, Semrush
• Be gone SEO myths!, SERP\'s Up SEO Podcast
• Technical SEO Issues That Can Harm Your Rankings, MarketingSyrup
• The most common technical SEO issues that lower your rankings, Onely

PPC

Search Features

Other Search

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