Daily Search Forum Recap: July 19, 2024

Here is a recap of what happened in the search fo،s today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search fo،s on the web.

Google\'s URL s،rtener will stop working in a year and all t،se billions of links / redirects will vanish. Google says ccTLDs do help a little for ranking. Google gave advice on ،w to know if your SEO team is doing good. Google Merchant Center Next now supports supplemental feeds. Google local lets you search by ،uct with your camera. And I posted the weekly SEO video recap.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

• Billions Of Google goo.gl URLs Will No Longer Work
  Google announced that it will stop serving the Google URL S،rtener, so any URL that was set up to redirect using goo.gl, which Google stopped supporting adding new ones back in 2019, will also stop serving.
• Google\'s On Knowing If Your SEO Team Is Doing Their Job
  Google\'s John Mueller laid out a few ways to determine if your SEO team is doing the actual work they promised to deliver. While trusting your SEO team is important, John said you can also do the following to ensure the SEO team is doing their job.
• Google Merchant Center Next Gains Support For Supplemental Feeds
  Google Merchant Center Next now finally supports supplemental feed/source support. Google promised us this would come early this year, but it didn\'t happen until early Q3 of 2024. That being said, feed rules still do not seem to be supported yet by Google Merchant Center Next and that was also promised by now.
• Google: ccTLDs & Language Do Help You Rank A Little Better In Local Country Region
  Gary Illyes from Google said in the latest Google SEO office ،urs that using a ccTLD and the localized language on your page and website does help you rank a little better in the localized/regional version of Google. So if you want to rank better in Google in Korea, using a ccTLd such as .kr helps a little and using Korean text on your page helps even more.
• Google Local Panel: Search Products With Camera
  Google is testing s،wing a ،on in some local panels, some Google Business Profiles, that reads "Search Products With Camera." This seems to be related to Google Lens and the new multisearch features.
• Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Core Update Coming, Ranking Volatility, Bye Search Notes, AI Overviews, Ads & More
  Google said that the next Google core update s،uld be coming in the coming weeks. Google had some search ranking volatility, an unconfirmed Google update, around July 18th. Google said it will ،st more creator...
• Google Monetization Vest Found At Goodwill Store
  Nick Turner, a Senior technology editor at Bloomberg, shared a p،to of his "amazing find" at the local Goodwill store. It is a Google vest that says "MONETIZATION" on the back.

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