Google Page Experience Update Fully Live In Search & Top Stories
Google has announced yesterday afternoon that the Google page experience update is now done rolling out, this includes being fully live in Google Search and Top Stories. Google said in a week, it will also be fully live in the Google News App.
Google: Changing IP Addresses A Non-Issue But Can Impact Crawl Rates
Google’s John Mueller said that when you change your sites IP address, maybe because you are moving to a new server, it would be mostly a “non-issue” for ranking and SEO purposes. But it can have a temporary impact on your crawl rate as Google learns …
Google: Prerendering With GoogleBot You Don’t Need All Your Site’s Functionality To Work
Martin Splitt from Google said it is not necessary to have all your site’s functionality operate like it would for a user, when you are prerendering for GoogleBot. He said you don’t have to worry about this for Google Search purposes.
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Sept 1 Google Search Update, Title Changes, Google Ads RSAs, Search Console Data Lost & More
This week, I posted the monthly Google webmaster report – catch up there on search topics you may have missed. Google may have done a search ranking algorithm update on September 1st. Google did say the page experience update is done rolling out…
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September 2021 Google Webmaster Report
Well, I got to say, the last month was an interesting one for webmasters, marketers and SEOs in the Google organic space. We finished off the prolonger link spam update, safe browsing was removed from the page experience update, which should have been…
John Mueller Often Debugs Google Using Bing
John Mueller, a Google search advocate, who we all know so well if you read this site. He said he will use Bing to debug Google issues. He said on Twitter “I often use Bing when debugging.”
Google Adds Documentation On Chrome Follow Beta Feature
Google had added a new section to the Google Discover help documents around markup you can use to define your RSS feed for Chrome to use for the “follow” feature. In May, Google Chrome announced an RSS reader like feature for Chrome named Follow.
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Chrome Beta Can Display Competitors When Customers Are On Your Site
Part of the latest version of the Chrome beta, not out to the masses yet, is a feature named “continuous search.” Continuous search basically will show you search results along the top of the page when you are browsing web sites. Essentially, it can s…
Google Adds Shipping / Return Annotations To Shopping & Search Results
Google announced it has added new shipping and return annotations in Google Search and Shopping results. This works across both the free and paid listings.
Was There A Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update On September 1st?
There are some signs of the start of a Google search ranking algorithm update that kicked off on September 1, 2021. The truth is, it seemed like an update touched down for a short period of time and then slowed down. There are not a huge number of co…
Google Only Internal Feedback Link For Search Results
Google employees have a special feature that allows them to submit feedback about Google products, like Google Search, internally. So it bypasses the mechanisms you or I have, and feedback from a Googler is probably prioritized over feedback from the …
Google Ads To Drop Expanded Text Ads For Responsive Search Ads In 2022
Google announced yesterday that on June 30, 2022 it will drop support for expanded text ads for responsive search ads. Google said responsive search ads will be the only Search ad type that can be created or edited in standard Search campaigns. The exi…
Google Once Again Allows The Sale Of N95 Masks On Google Ads & Shopping
Google has updated its Google Shopping and Google Ads policies to open up the sale of masks again on Google Ads and Shopping. Google said it has “determined that it is now appropriate to allow N95 masks in the U.S. and a selection of approved N95-adja…
Google Search Tests Double Indented Results
Last month we reported on Google testing showing indented search results. I’ve only really seen Google showing one indented result per snippet. Now I spotted an example of two indented result under a main listing.
Google On Multiple Rich Results Per Page – Focus On One, There Is No Defined Order
Generally, Google wants you to use one rich result structured markup (schema) per page. Why? Well, if you use multiple, you won’t know which Google may show and you probably won’t to define that on your end, versus letting Google define it for you.
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Google: Content Behind Paywalls Is Not Automatically Thin Content
Google’s John Mueller said that just because some content might be behind a paywall, it doesn’t mean Google sees that content as thin content. Google allows content paywalls and will show them as much as it shows content not behind paywalls. So no, …
Google: Don’t Blindly Replace Your HTML Title Tags With Google’s Titles
So now there are some SEOs asking if it makes sense for you to replace your HTML title tag with the title Google selected to show in the Google search results. John Mueller from Google said no, don’t just do that blindly – if it makes things better for…
Google Internal Tool To Check Site Quality
Google’s John Mueller said a couple of weeks ago that he has internal tools to look at sites or pages and see if a site is low quality. He said this in the August 20th video hangout.
Google Search Console Performance Report Data Lost Completely
Last week, we reported that the performance report in Google Search Console for the dates of August 23rd and 24th had missing data. We were hoping Google would be able to retrieve and backfill the data, but it seems the data is lost forever and will no…
Google Tests Expandable Search Snippet Carousels
For the past couple of weeks, people have been showing me a feature in Google search that shows expandable snippets in a carousel format. Kind of like expandable sitelinks of some sorts. I thought I saw this before, but it was actually something Bing l…