Google Search Ranking Volatility Over June 28th & 29th Weekend
On the heels of the completion of the June 2024 spam update this Thursday, June 27th, I am now seeing signs of an unconfirmed Google Search ranking algorithm update and volatility. It seems more heated than the week of this spam update rollout but less weak than you'd see with a Google core update.
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Some Sites Hit By Google Helpful Content Update Seeing Small Lifts
There are reports that some sites hit by the Google September 2023 Helpful Content Update are seeing small, somewhat tiny, lifts over the past week or so. Again, based on what we've been tracking, we have yet to see any recoveries but we are all hopeful we will see significant recoveries for some of those sites with the next core update.
Google Explains Why Soft 404s Are Bad
Gary Illyes from Google explained two reasons why soft 404 errors are bad. Soft 404s are when a page returns a 200 status okay, but Google thinks that page should return a 404 page not found error. According to Gary, soft 404s are bad because they (1) limit crawl budget and (2) the pages won't likely show up in Google Search.
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Google Posts Reviews Troubleshooting & FAQs For Missing and Remove Reviews
A Google community manager, Alistair D., posted a Reviews troubleshooting and FAQs document in the Google Business Profiles forums. It goes through why reviews go missing, why reviews are removed and how to troubleshoot those issues with the Google Business Profiles tools.
Google Search Tests Top Quality Store Badge Near Site Name
Google is testing placing the top quality store badge and icon next to the site name area in the Google mobile search results. This brings up that icon from the bottom portion of the snippet to the very top of the snippet.
Prompt Injection Added To Bing Webmaster Guidelines
Bing added a new guideline to its Bing Webmaster Guidelines named Prompt Injection. A prompt injection is a type of cyberattack against large language models (LLMs). Hackers disguise malicious inputs as legitimate prompts, manipulating generative AI systems (GenAI) into leaking sensitive data, spreading misinformation, or worse, according to IBM.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 28, 2024
Jun 28, 2024Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google June Spam Update Done, Continuous Scroll Gone, AI Overview Links Improving, Google Ads Query Matching Update & More
Jun 28, 2024Google June 2024 Spam Update Finished Rolling Out
Jun 28, 2024How Google Measures Search Quality - Interview With Elizabeth Tucker
Jun 28, 2024Google Product Studio Expands To More Countries, Adds File Uploads & New Themes
Jun 28, 2024Bing People Also Ask Now May Include AI Generated Content
Jun 28, 2024SEO Report: Menu Items & Popular Times May Be Google Local Ranking Signals
Jun 28, 2024New Google Ads WordPress Conversion Google Tag Code
Jun 28, 2024Daily Search Forum Recap: June 27, 2024
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