Daily Search Forum Recap: September 12, 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.
There was a core update announced today…
Vlog #188: Christine Zirnheld, aka Shep On Being A PPC Hypocrite
Christine Zirnheld, aka Shep, is a Digital Marketing Manager at Cypress North, is a co-host on Marketing O’Clock, and has been with the company for over four years. Shep came from her maiden name Shepherd and Greg Finn gave him the nickname of Shep…
Google: Billions Of Redirects Are Fine But Site Moves Do Impact Rankings
Someone is looking to move to a new CMS where the site has 20,000 products on the front-end of the website. When the site switches to a new CMS, it sounds like the URLs will need to change. He asked if he could redirect 20,000 URLs.
Google Helpful Content Update Finished On 9/9 But Were Those Fluctuations Related To HCU
The Google helpful content update finished rolling out around 2 pm ET on September 9th. That morning we reported we started to notice more widespread volatility and fluctuations, possibly related to the helpful content update. But now I am thinking th…
Google Removes datePublished Property From Fact Check Structured Data
Google has removed the datePublished “recommended” property from the fact check structured data documentation. Google said, “Currently, date information isn’t used in the Fact Check rich result.”
Google Tests Featured Snippet Yellow & Blue Highlights
Google is now testing highlighting portions of the featured snippets they show in the Google search results page. I am seeing the highlights both in yellow and blue format, as well as no highlights at all.
Google: Crawl Spikes Aren’t Global, Normally Noticed On A “Per Site Vibe”
There is an interesting conversation on Twitter about Google crawling spikes and (1) if these spikes are global or on a per-site basis and (2) if the URL parameter tool going offline caused a global spike in crawling.
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 9, 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.
We are finally seeing movement, big volatility…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Helpful Content Update Impact, Search Console Review Type Changes, Google Ads Updates & More
This week, I posted the large Google webmaster report a bit late but then dug into the Google helpful content in a lot more detail…
Google Consolidates Tips On Preventing Spam On Your Site In Help Docs
Google has added a new section to its quality guidelines category named “Prevent abuse on your site and platform” yesterday. The content is mostly not new, it is mostly from a 2017 Google blog post on how to protect your site from user generated spam …
Google Business Profile Photos With Timestamp Of Photo
Google seems to be testing showing when a photo was taken or uploaded to a Google Business Profile listing. Google has done this for image search and other areas but I am not sure if this was done for photos on Business Profiles.
Google One Box Results Get Tracking Parameters With Unique Integrations?
Have you ever noticed that some Google one boxes, like the Twitter carousel, in Google Search, have special tracking parameters added to the URLs when you click on them. Carolyn Lyden asked John Mueller of Google why is this the case.
Google Traffic Quality Site Adds More Invalid Traffic Examples
Google’s Aurora Morales posted on Twitter that her team has updated the Google Ads Traffic Quality site to provide more examples of what is invalid traffic. The previous site had seven examples, the new site has twelve examples.
Google Helpful Content Update Not Done Yet But Now We’re Seeing Fluctuations
Today marks the two-week and one-day mark since the Google helpful content update started to roll out and by the time I am writing this (at 5:30 am ET on September 9th – jet lagged) Google has still not noted that the helpful content update is done rol…
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 8, 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.
Are we seeing big movements with the Google helpful content update…
Google Helpful Content Update Movement? Yes But Not Widespread.
There seems to be a lot of confusion around the Google helpful content update and if it is “big” or not big. That all depends on if you were hit by it, if you were, oh boy is it really big for you. But in terms of how widespread it is, so far, it is n…
September 2022 Google Webmaster Report
I am a week late with the monthly Google webmaster report because I was on vacation and these are a pain to put together. But it is important and I wanted to catch you all up on the changes with Google SEO, webmaster, and organic search over the past m…
Google Updated Review-Type Results That Can Impact Search Console Reports
Google has posted that it began upgrading some review-type results to product-type results in Search, and has been able to generate some new product type results. This started on August 22, 2022 and as a result, your Search Console performance and rich…
Google Tests Site Name Above URL In Mobile Search Results & Rounded Favicons Again
Google is testing, again, placing the site name above the URL and description in the mobile search result snippets. Also, we are seeing more rounded favicons in those snippets as well.
New Google Ads Setup Ad Groups Column Options
Google is adding a new set of data metrics to the Google Ads ad groups column reports. The new options are under a section called “Setup” and include eight new metrics.