Google is officially rolling out several new features designed to help searchers better and more easily see the information in their search results. what’s new. Google is: rollout of About this result Globally. During startup perspective For top stories. During startup About this author. make it easier to access About this page feature. Let’s dig […]
Google has split the Merchant Listings and Product Snippets reports into two unique looks that can be filtered within the Google Search Console performance reports. Google also revealed these in its Merchant Listings and Product Snippets report, which it launched last September. what’s new Google says it is “adding the ability to measure the impact […]
The 2023 Local Search Ranking Factors Study has been announced. This is a study of local SEO experts ranking the most important ranking factors in both Google Local Pack and Google Organic Local Results. Investigation details. This research was conducted by Whitespark and surveyed 44 different local SEO professionals. We asked these local SEO experts […]
Google launches new ‘Rankings’ section Google Search Status Dashboard Launched last December. The new rankings section contains current and historical Google algorithm updates. This allows you to see what has changed in Google Search related to ranking, not just crawling, indexing or serving. new dashboard. Here’s what the new dashboard looks like: Google added a […]
Google is currently rolling out the March 2023 Broad Core Update. This is the first broad core update for 2023, following the September 2022 broad core update. It’s been over six months since the last major core update from Google Search. announcement. Google announced This is Twitter and Has been updated Its search update page […]
Google rolled out site names, updated favicons, and sponsored labels in desktop search after starting this in mobile search last October. Since then, Google has been testing the desktop version. last Novemberand is now officially live on both desktop and mobile search. what is it like Here’s a screenshot of the new site name and […]
Google has released the February 2023 Product Reviews Update. Publishing takes about two weeks. This update adds new languages for product review updates including English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Russian, Dutch, Portuguese and Polish. This is the 6th release of Product Review Update. This is called his February 2023 Product Review Update and […]
Google warns against using 404 or other 4xx client-server status errors (such as 403) to try to set crawl rate limits for Googlebot. “Don’t do that,” says Gary Illyes of the Google Search Relations team. I have written. Why Notify. Recently, an increasing number of sites and CDNs are trying to limit Googlebot crawling using […]
Google is updating its Lighthouse 10 tools to remove one of its overall Core Web Vitals metrics, Time To Interactive (TTI). Google assigns TTI weights to cumulative layout shifts (CLS). This makes CLS a total of 25% of the overall performance score. TTI is not a Core Web Vitals metric used in Search Console or […]
Google is currently testing Bard, OpenAI’s answer to ChatGPT. We also saw for the first time the AI-powered capabilities of Google Search. Google CEO Sundar Pichai today announced the soft launch of Bard to a series of “trusted testers” and an example of what this early experimental release looks like Did. We knew this was […]
Today at The Verge, Inside CNET’s AI-Powered SEO Money MachineWe’ve covered many of the reactions to BankRate reported in Google searches over the past week, and more brands are using AI to create their content. It also details how machines can be used instead of low-cost humans to generate low-quality content designed to rank higher […]
When Google announced the helpful content update, many in the SEO industry expected AI-generated content to get hit hard. I was expecting AI-generated content to get wiped out by this supposedly sweeping update, comparable to 2011’s Panda algorithm update. Yet, no major impact was recorded. Soon after, Google released the October 2022 spam update and […]
Google said it could take another week or two to complete the rollout of two different Google search algorithm updates, December 2022’s helpful content system and December 2022’s link spam update. said. The helpful content update started on December 5th and the link spam update started on December 14th. The rollout of the algorithm update […]
This year has seen a variety of stresses associated with Google algorithm updates, less stress from the pandemic and more stress related to the recession. This year he has 10 Google algorithm updates confirmed. This is the same number of algorithm updates confirmed for 2021. Also like last year, Google rolled out two major algorithm […]
Google has updated its search quality rating guidelines for the second time in 2022, just four and a half months after the last update in July 2022. This revised document makes some significant changes to EAT by adding an E to EAT for “experience”. This document is now about 9 pages longer, up to 176 […]
With both Google’s December 2022 link spam update and helpful content update rolling out, SEOs are concerned that Google may have yet another Google algorithm update before the end of the year. I’m here. Well, it won’t happen, said John Mueller of the Google search team. No more core updates this year. John Mueller Said […]
When Google launched a new spam update at the end of 2022, complaints poured in as webmasters were caught off-guard. Why are people still using outdated SEO tactics like “keyword stuffing”? Here’s what else you may have done wrong and how you can practice actual SEO that benefits real-world users. Seriously? Is keyword stuffing still […]
Google has started pushing updates to its helpful content system. This is the first major update to this update since it was released in August 2022. The update started yesterday, December 5th, but now he is prominent on December 6th. That’s why Google announced this update today. what’s new Helpful content updates (aka System) are […]
Google has published a new help document explaining the more “notable” ranking system that Google has rolled out over the years. These are both current and obsolete in Google Search.the name of the document is A Guide to the Google Search Ranking System. Uses a ranking system. The documentation indicates that these are the ranking […]
Google today added a new spam policy to its Search Spam Policy. The new spam policy is named “Policy Evasion.” This means that Google may take action against your content, site or account if we find a way to circumvent current anti-spam measures. new policy. Google has posted new policies over hereit reads: “Intended to […]
Google search advocate John Mueller says that SEO advice that mentions “link juice” is unreliable. Is that so? I wondered about the context and wondered if that was true.there is different opinions. After Barry Schwartz shared the news on LinkedIn, a lively discussion ensued.Even Moz and SparkToro founder Rand Fishkin commented: Maybe we should all […]
Google’s John Mueller said that in the future there may be Google search ranking algorithms where links are less important across algorithms than they are today. He also hinted that links aren’t heavily weighted in the history of Google ranking algorithms. what was said. When asked about the link, John Mueller said at the 13:52 […]
Google’s October 2022 spam update, which began rolling out on October 19, 2022 at approximately 11:00 AM ET, was completed within 48 hours of its launch. The update finished rolling out on October 21, 2022 at approximately 5:00 AM ET. publication. google quietly updated Search for updates The page reads, “We have released the October […]
Google is currently rolling out something called “site name” in mobile search results. The site name will display the name of the website more prominently than just the URL at the top of the snippet. Along with the site name, Google also announced that the size and shape of the favicon will appear next to […]
Twenty years is a long time, especially in the age of the Internet, and the original Google Webmaster Guidelines are that old. Google today made a major overhaul of these webmaster guidelines, renaming them accordingly. Google search basics. Reason for change. Except it’s less than 20 years old, Google Said “A lot has changed since […]
Google has added three new examples to the top of the How to Write Product Reviews help document to clarify the types of sites that may be impacted by updates to our product review algorithm. 3 examples. Google added these 3 examples to this Help document: A merchant’s professional staff member who guides shoppers between […]
Imagine you’re on vacation, it’s approaching noon and you’re starting to feel hungry. You’re eager to enjoy the best local cuisine your destination has to offer. So you go to Google Maps and search for “best lunch restaurant near me”, a topic that’s more than doubled in search volume on Google in the last three […]
Earlier this year at SMX Advanced, we announced the results of our Peak Ace test lab. These tests reveal some technical implementation points and how Googlebot deals with them. One of my favorite tests looked at Google’s indexing of iFrame URLs and their content. In his SMX Advanced presentation of mine, I touched on various […]
Google has confirmed that it has finished rolling out helpful content updates. This update took 15 days to roll out from August 25, 2022 to September 9, 2022. Google is Posted It was completed on September 9th. Note that Google’s helpful content updates are a site-wide signal. Intended for websites with a relatively large amount […]
Google’s help documentation on controlling snippets in search results adds some examples of “bad” and “better” meta descriptions. bad person. Google recommends avoiding four types of “bad” meta descriptions: Keyword list: “Sewing supplies, yarn, colored pencils, sewing machines, threads, bobbins, needles” Same description used for all news articles: “We’ll bring Whoville local news to your […]
Google has added a new Content Guidelines section to the Education Q&A Structured Data help documentation. new guidelines. Here are the new guidelines Google added: The Educational Q&A page is Same content guidelines for Q&A pages. The page should contain educational-related questions and answers. A page must have at least one question/answer pair, and the […]
Google has started rolling out a new helpful content update that we announced in advance last week. Note that Google’s helpful content updates are a site-wide signal. Intended for websites with a relatively large amount of unsatisfactory or unhelpful content, where the content is written for search engines first. In short, was the content written […]
Google plans to release another product review update in the coming weeks, the August 2022 Product Review Update. announced Along with helpful content updates. Google said it will roll out another update “in the coming weeks to make it even easier to find quality, unique reviews.” Google says this is another improvement to its product […]
Google has updated its Merchant Center policy to prevent the automatic removal of shopping listings with no return and refund policies and insufficient contact information. PostedThis particular policy change applies only to free listings, not paid listings. what’s new Previously, Google Merchant Center feed listings were automatically disapproved by Google if they lacked either a […]
Google has re-enabled the Fix Validation feature in Google Search Console and launched a new “simpler” taxonomy of coverage reports. This was to be expected, and earlier this month, Google temporarily disabled the fix validation feature to kick off these new classification labels. Validation fix is back. Now when you go to Google Search Console […]
Google has read the strengths and weaknesses of product review snippets in Google search results and added structured data support for their potential use.Google Said “By providing it, we were able to tell Google what our strengths and weaknesses were. Structured data for strengths and weaknesses On the editorial review page. Here are the pros […]
Google has made a number of important updates to our Search Quality Rating Guidelines. The most significant review concerned Google’s definition of YMYL (Your Money, Your Life) and how important EAT is to page quality issues. Google has provided a new and clearer definition of what it means for content to be YMYL. Most of […]