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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. Search Engine Roundtable Stories: Google My Business Dashboard Adds Map To Address The Google My Business dashboard typically by default only shows the address without a map on the info tab when you are looking to edit your address. But it seems Google is changing that to show a visual map even before you edit your location. Google Search Algorithm Updates Impact Sites That Didn't Have Ranking Changes Google's John Mueller said that most Google Search algorithm updates will have an impact on every site, even if the site did not see any ranking changes. John said on Twitter "our algorithms generally affect all sites in the search results, though not all of them might see changes in how they're shown in search." GoogleBot Favicon: Google Has A New Favicon Crawler Google may have a new web crawler that specifically looks for Favicons, the … [Read more...] about Daily Search Forum Recap: October 16, 2018

The Google My Business dashboard typically by default only shows the address without a map on the info tab when you are looking to edit your address. But it seems Google is changing that to show a visual map even before you edit your location.Cherie Dickey in the Local Search Forums seemed to first spot this change. I personally do not even see a map in my Google My Business dashboard, not until I clicked the edit icon on my address. Here is what she sees:Here is what I see:Cherie said "There's also a user edit that needs to be addressed, and I'm thinking that's why two pins are showing on the map."Anyway, the map being there is new. It is not a big deal but I guess Google wants to highlight where they dropped the pin so business owners can modify it?Forum discussion at Local Search Forums. … [Read more...] about Google My Business Dashboard Adds Map To Address

Google's John Mueller said that most Google Search algorithm updates will have an impact on every site, even if the site did not see any ranking changes. John said on Twitter "our algorithms generally affect all sites in the search results, though not all of them might see changes in how they're shown in search." The example given by John is when "a complicated calculation might end up with a 0 as a result." Thus that site was impacted by the calculation resulted in a zero and thus didn't move things too much.But yes, when Google does these algorithm updates, all sites should be impacted but many sites won't see an impact directly in the search results.In fact, in most cases, Google says most sites do not see any changes or notice and fluctuations. Here is John's tweet: Yea, so this isn't super helpful but a nice tidbit in general to have.Forum discussion at Twitter. … [Read more...] about Google Search Algorithm Updates Impact Sites That Didn’t Have Ranking Changes

Google may have a new web crawler that specifically looks for Favicons, the little icons you see in your browser bar next to the URL. Favicons are associated with a particular website or web page and can be customized by the site owner. Valentin Pletzer posted on Twitter that he spotted a new GoogleBot useragent that specifically is named for Favicons. It is named:Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.75 Safari/537.36 Google FaviconIt comes from the IP range of 66.249.93.x but it is no where listed on Google's crawler info help document.We know Google has shown favicons in the search results over the years. So maybe this is how Google indexes these favicons?Forum discussion at Twitter. … [Read more...] about GoogleBot Favicon: Google Has A New Favicon Crawler

Google My Business Insights which gives you analytics around how well your Google local listings are doing, added a quarter filter date range to the new queries report. Google added a queries report back a few months ago, it only offered a week and month for date filters, now it offers a quarter as well.Here is a screen shot of the new date options for the queries report:The desktop version looks a bit different:It is always good to get more data.Forum discussion at Local Search Forums. … [Read more...] about Google My Business Insights Queries Report One Quarter Date Range Available