Google announced on Twitter it has added URL-level data in the example URLs within the Google Core Web Vitals report. Plus Google added that it made some textual changes to the report “to make it clearer.” Google wrote “We’re improving the Core Web Vitals report From today we’ll start surfacing URL-level data in the example […]
Recently Google recommended strongly against using dynamic rendering as a workaround for JavaScript sites going forward, Google updated its help documentation to strongly say not to use it. But that does not mean it would hurt your rankings, today, to use dynamic rendering compared to server-side rendering. Google’s John Mueller responded to a question on […]
Google’s John Mueller was asked what percentage of content-to-ad ratio is too much to rank well in Google Search. As you can imagine, John said there is no number he can share. He said you should just know, if it is “too much” – you’d know. The question was “how many ads are recommended on […]
Google’s John Mueller was asked if Google still ranks sites that are on HTTP (not over HTTPS), ie insecure sites. John said yes, being on HTTPS is not a requirement to rank in Google Search he explained. The question asked was “do you still RANK non-https sites in 2022?” John responded on Twitter saying, “Sure. […]
google has announced it will be launching the fifth Product Reviews update in the coming weeks, which would be just a few weeks after Google finished rolling out the last product reviews update, the July 2022 Product Reviews updateon August 2nd. Google told us the goal is to roll out this fifth product reviews update […]
Google has announced a new big search ranking algorithm update named the helpful content update – yes, Google named it that. This update will start to roll out next week and will target content that is, um, not helpful to humans and people. The helpful content update looks to weed out content written for the […]
google has released version 11.1 of the Google Ads API. Version 11 of the Google Ads API was released in June, so this is a minor update to version 11. Here is everything that was updated in version 11.1: Assets Added AssetGroup.ad_strength to represent the overall quality of the asset group. When advertisers mutate asset […]
Google just announced that it fixed a bug with Google Search Console that labeled pages as being indexed when they were not indexed. Google said this bug “affected many properties”. Google wrote on Twitter “Today we fixed a Search Console issue that affected many properties: we were reporting pages that are not indexed as being […]
30 days ago, the Google Search timer and stopwatch feature stopped working. Well, I am glad to report that the stopwatch was fixed and it is now working again. I literally checked a couple of times a day and now it is working. Here is a GIF of it in action for a search on […]
Google’s live stream box in search was mostly found in carousels or thin list view interfaces. But now Google seems to be showing them in a more prominent manner for some queries. Maybe this is not new but Khushal Bherwani is pretty good at spotting new things and he said this is new on Twitter. […]