MUM, updates, titles, rating components and extra

This month we had the big Google Look at event Where Touted by Google how MUM will be using it in more places in Google Search, as well as a bunch of other big announcements, so be sure to check this out. We also had several unconfirmed Updates to the Google search algorithm this last month. Also, the page experience update live fully. Google optimized that Title change Showing your title tags more often, but is that enough? Google said it is moving away from talking about it 200+ ranking signals go forward.

Those were the big changes over the last month, but we also had a ton of SEO tips from Google like I’ve listed below, including a brand new one Ecommerce SEO Best Practices Instructions from Google. Google also said some lead generation forms can confuse Google. Google could hit the bottom Recipe rich result spam on a large scale. Danny Sullivan has a Q&A with News publishers at google news.

The Google Search Console had big problem this last month. But they started more granular errors structured data for products. There have been a number of Google My Business and local changes, as well as some changes that are upset car dealer.

If you missed that Report from September 2021 make up for it there.

Here’s what you missed in the last month:

Google search algorithms:

• Search Google on: MUM, Trivia, Shoppable, information on this result and more
• See Google Search on 2021
• Huge update of the Google search ranking algorithm on October 2nd and 3rd
• Big update of the Google search ranking algorithm on September 24th and 25th?
• Possible update of the Google algorithm on September 16 & 17
• Update of the Long Volatile Google Search Ranking Algorithm: 9/9 – 9/12
• Google Search Ranking Update Saturday – September 4th (Tools Little Chatter)
• Was there an update to the Google search ranking algorithm on September 1st?
• Google Page Experience update completely live in the search and in the top stories
• Google: We now use titles 87% of the time compared to 80% and here’s why
• Google titles change in search, but for the better?

Google SEO:

• Google: 200+ ranking signals are misleading
• New Google Help Documents: Ecommerce Best Practices in Google Search
• Google: Lead Gen Forms or CTAs can sometimes be seen as ads when …
• Google can automate the removal of rich recipe results for listicles
• Google: The quality of the website is not about the pages that are missing from the Google index
• Google: Technical changes cannot fix website quality
• Google: URL length is a very light signal for canonicalization
• Google: We do not differentiate between category, filter, tag or search pages
• Google: Changes to the site’s accessibility do not violate our webmaster guidelines
• Google: CSS for content visibility does not affect Google search
• Google: For SEO reasons, don’t remove old messages from your news page
• If changing website themes doesn’t affect your Google ranking
• Google: Changing WordPress themes can affect rankings
• SEOs notice crawled, unindexed errors in Google Search Console even if they are indexed
• Google: It doesn’t matter that related links are constantly changing dynamically
• Google: Self-referential canonicals help eliminate small SEO mistakes
• Google’s John Mueller explains Passage Ranking in detail
• Google PSA: Dedicated pages for seasonal sales events
• Google News Q&A Tips with Danny Sullivan

Google Search Console:

• The Google Search Console performance report should catch up later today
• Google Products Rich Results Search Console report now more detailed

Google Local & Maps:

• Google My Business adds Latino’s own attribute
• Google adds booking links and other information for points of interest
• Google hotel listings earn eco-friendly badges
• Google Maps Local Listing Overlay Image Carousel
• Google My Business removes Site Manager user role

Google search and user interface tests:

• Google’s new auto search capabilities are annoying auto retailers
• Google: We licensed the car data for search, it doesn’t come from the web
• Google is again testing the block design of larger sitelinks
• Google embeds links in featured snippets again

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