Daily Search Forum Recap: April 13, 2022 -

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 is rolling out the top stories label for “highly cited” articles. Google updated its webmaster guidelines overview page to say automatically generated content is against its guidelines when it is intended to manipulate the search results. Google said not all product comparison pieces of content is considered product review update worthy. Google Search Console will show redirected links in the links report, at least a sampling of them. Google is showing a weird snippet for images – it seems out of place, maybe it is a bug.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

Other Great Search Threads:

I don’t know anything about Google Local things, but I thought this was a topic for longer now. Anecdotally, so many local-business websites, listings seem to have obsolete opening hours, finding the, John Mueller on Twitter

Love that @iamjohnoliver used Google’s people also ask feature, Barry Schwartz on Twitter

No. It also includes rel=nofollow links, for example. They’re just a sample of the links we’ve seen; they could drive traffic to your pages, or not., John Mueller on Twitter

Yeah, it is hard. It’s easy for us to focus on these things, but we’re not the ones who have to primarily run the local business with all of the associated overhead. Using automation to, John Mueller on Twitter

This kind of thing is probably older than some of the SEOs I met at a recent conference. Mark the emails as spam, and ignore them., John Mueller on Twitter

Thoughts On Links Moving Forward From The Past, WebmasterWorld

Search Engine Land Stories:

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