Category: Google Search Engine Optimization

Google has done its yearly update for its Merchant Center product data specification. Some of the changes listed below went into effect yesterday, some go into effect July 18, 2023 and some don’t go into effect until September 1, 2023.

Gary Illyes from Google posted information on how Google Search handles the 103 early hints HTTP server status response. He said, “Googlebot will ignore the 103 and wait for the subsequent response.”

Google has released a new spam or as they call it, search quality feedback form. This form allows you to submit feedback around not just spam but paid links, malicious behavior, low quality, and other search quality issues.

Google updated the Search Console rich results report for breadcrumbs starting on June 8, 2023. The report now shows warning when sites use the HTML id attribute to specify an ID for Breadcrumb structured data. This may result in an increase in warnin…

Google has added a bunch of examples to the potentialAction.mathExpression-input section of the Math Solver help documentation. These examples explain how to handle derivatives, integrals, and limits in that field.

As a reminder, Google said it moved its last batch of sites over from desktop-first indexing to mobile-first indexing in late May. But there was a reporting bug that shows some sites as still being on desktop indexing even though they are on mobile ind…

Google has released a Search Console update to improve the video indexing reporting. Google said this will provide you with more specific issues with clear actions to help you make your videos more prominent on Google Search.

Google’s Gary Illyes said in an SEO office hours video that having multiple navigation menus will have no impact on your SEO performance. That means no positive or negative impact on your SEO performance.

Google’s Gary Illyes confirmed that Google does indeed check to see if an XML sitemap has a change in it before reprocessing the XML sitemap file.

Google’s Gary Illyes said in a SEO office hours video that you may want to consider consolidating pages that end up in a host group in the Google search results. Host groups are when Google shows two results from the same domain, one indented under th…

A few months ago, Google changed when it shows video thumbnails in its search results to only show the video thumbnail when the video is part of the page’s main content. Gary Illyes from Google said that does not mean the video needs to be the first el…

John Mueller from Google said there is no such concept at Google on the topic of “index bloat.” He said Google’s “systems don’t artificially limit the number of pages indexed per site.”

Google’s John Mueller said on Reddit, when it comes to SEO, do not pick a cheap domain on a TLD that is overrun with spam. The question that was asked was, “Does it matter for SEO if my site is .com / .site /or any other?”

Google is testing the ability to click on a word in a featured snippet within Google Search and define that word. You can also copy the word, if you want. I think this is a Google Search test and maybe not a Chrome test.

As expected, with Google I/O this month, we had a pretty busy month. We saw the all new Google Search Generative Experience demoed, and a few weeks later, Google started a limited rollout of it. Google said the next helpful content system will promot…

Google has updated its help document to add the .ai generic country code top level domain (ccTLD) to the the list of domains it treats as generic top level domain (gTLDs).

Google has a bug in Google Search Console where it reported some sites being indexed using mobile indexing as being indexed using desktop indexing. I am sure we all have sites that are “mobile friendly” and also show that Google is indexing it using th…

Google announced that Search Console Insights, where the property is not associated with a Google Analytics property, was upgraded to show more insights. Specifically new content performance insights, such as your site’s most popular and trending conte…

Google has updated its SafeSearch, adult content filter, help documentation to say you should not show the age gate prompt to Googlebot. Google wrote, “For content behind a mandatory age gate, we recommend allowing Googlebot to crawl your content witho…

The Google Search Console Performance report is now delayed over 60 hours. For me, it is about 63 hours delayed. The good news, Google is aware of the issue and I am sure it will catch up soon.