Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Google has quietly posted on their data anomalies page that they have changed how often they update the “Crawl Status” report in the Google Search Console specifically for apps.

They went from updating the data on a daily basis to updating it every 3-…

Back in 2014, Matt Cutts of Google said if they drop links, the search results get bad. Meaning, if they drop looking at links for ranking purposes…

The other day, we reported there was an unknown update to the Index Status report in the Google Search Console. John Mueller then said on Twitter “we fixed the glitch,” and the “update” line in the report went away…

The data anomalies page has announced that the Google Search Console is “performing infrastructure updates” at this time.

Google added that “will prevent data logging in some reports for the next few weeks…

Google’s John Mueller confirmed that they completely ignore the HTML lang attribute for determining the language and region of the page. John said this at the 55:54 mark into the video hangout from last week.

Instead…

Google has published a blog post on how to build crawlable Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). Google has given us guidance on this topic before and even told us to not rust into PWAs but now Google has provided some great detail on making search engine frie…

This is too cool, ask Google on mobile, desktop or voice, [who won] and you won’t get the basketball or football game but rather who won the elections…

If you go to the Google Search Console and go to the “Index Status” report under the Google Index section, you will see on November 6, 2016 a line that reads “update.” Normally that line means that Google made a change and the report might fluctuate……

Google seems to have significantly dropped the number of sitelinks that show up in the search results under the snippets from around 35% of all queries that show sitelinks to about 8.5% of all queries that show sitelinks. That is according to the RankR…