Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google has announced its UGC Fresh Data Program, which Google says “is an initiative designed to help platforms display fresh, high quality, and authentic user-generated content (UGC) across various features on Search.” Basically, it seems like an API …

Google may be issuing more manual action penalties over the past few weeks than it has over the weeks before that. The increase in manual actions seems to have started several weeks ago, but more so recently, according to some SEOs.

Google seems to no longer be showing review rich reviews in Google Search when review schema or structured data is added to healthcare web pages.

Google has just pushed some updates to the reduce the Google crawl rate documentation. Most of the changes are just organizational to the content on the page but under the “Urgently reduce crawler traffic (for emergencies)” section, Google added new in…

Google has just pushed some updates to the reduce the Google crawl rate documentation. Most of the changes are just organizational to the content on the page but under the “Urgently reduce crawler traffic (for emergencies)” section, Google added new in…

Google has added information to the Search generative AI control page in Search Console about when a child property overrides the parent setting for AI controls.

Google now lets you check off multiple countries within the Google Search Console country filter in the performance reports. This lets you group countries together, to see how your search performance is doing for multiple countries at once, instead of …

Google’s John Mueller was asked why Google continues to crawl tons of pages on a large website but indexes only four of them, and why the home page isn’t indexed. John categorized the site as a “large product aggregator.”

Around the same time Google updated its helpful content search documentation with defining main content and the new EOT/SA sections, Google also posted a warning to “avoid using deceptive authorship information.”

Google will soon support dark mode in Google Search Console. Ariel Kroszynski, a Senior Software Engineer at Google, announced this at the Google Search Central Live Deep Dive Europe 2026 in Barcelona last week.

Google spoke at the three-day Google Search Central Live Deep Dive event in Europe about why it has rolled out so many spam updates in 2026, according to John Campbell’s recap at We Are Roast. He said that Google has been doing more spam updates becaus…

Gary Illyes from Google reportedly presented new data from Google Search on how long Google for crawling, indexing and serving on average. This is broken down by process, withing crawling, indexing and serving and shows the typical timeframe versus th…

Google has updated the creating helpful, reliable, people-first content help document to primarily add two new sections. First, it added that the main content is super critical, added what is main content and then explained how Search Quality raters re…

Google has updated Google Search’s “guidance on using generative AI content on your website” document to tell those who use AI-generated content to “manually factcheck and review all AI-generated content for accuracy and trustworthiness before publishi…

Google has updated Google Search’s “guidance on using generative AI content on your website” document to tell those who use AI-generated content to “manually factcheck and review all AI-generated content for accuracy and trustworthiness before publishi…

Google has updated Google Search’s “guidance on using generative AI content on your website” document to tell those who use AI-generated content to “manually factcheck and review all AI-generated content for accuracy and trustworthiness before publishi…

Here is the big Google webmaster report for October 2026, where I recap the most important organic and webmaster-focused Google Search news for the past month. Clearly, the Google September 2026 spam update, which started off strong and is still rolli…

Google has updated its video structured data documentation to support creator property and it has updated the interactionStatistic in VideoObject structured data. Google said these updates are to “to document support for the creator and author properti…

Google has updated its video structured data documentation to support creator property and it has updated the interactionStatistic in VideoObject structured data. Google said these updates are to “to document support for the creator and author properti…

The crawl stats report is missing a day of data again, this time, the missing data is from September 15th (it might be a day later for some of you on different time zones). That being said, this has happened numerous times before and Google tends to a…