Last October, Google revamped its Google Webmaster Guidelines into Google Search Essentials and one part of that was to consolidate the previous pages on thin content and affiliate programs into the overall documentation. Lizzi Sassman from Google explained a bit more on why this was done. Lizzi said on Twitter, “the spam policy covers our […]
Google has posted a new help document for posting restrictions around user-generated content in Google Maps. This is specific to reviews, photos, and videos users may update to Google Maps. This may also include content such as ratings or Q&A topics. I spotted this via LocalU who wrote, “This is the first time that Google […]
Google is testing the “order online” button from the bottom of the search result snippet to the top of that snippet. I see it on the bottom, but some can see it towards the top of the snippet, above the sitelinks but under the description area. Ben Heligman spotted this change and posted a screenshot […]
The other day we reported on the newish check wait time button and now we are seeing a “join waitlist” button as well. I guess this gets you on the list to be seated at a restaurant. This feature is from 2019but I have rarely seen it myself and I don’t think I covered it […]
As of January 19, 2023, Google has updated the video indexing report in Google Search Console, which now reports on thumbnail indexing issues more accurately. The result may be that you see reassignment of “Missing thumbnail” issues to more specific issue types, Google said. Google posted this on the data anomalies page and wrote, “Search […]
This week we had two unconfirmed updates from Google rollout after the helpful content, and link spam update finished. Google said quality updates could impact crawling and indexing. Google Search Console updated the performance report for product tracking. Google also updated the video indexing report for better error reporting. Google will ignore robots.txt rules if […]
Google has posted that you may see an increase in clicks and impressions in your search performance report when filtering by the product results search appearance in Search Console. Google said this is because Google is now picking up these products even without structured data. This spike would appear on January 6, 2023, and continue […]
In recent months SEO professionals have been trying to understand the impacts of the mass arrival of AI tools, such as many AI writer assistants (egLex and ChatGPT), and how their lives will be impacted by this. They need to rethink strategies, considering all these AI tools’ advantages but making sure to maintain humanized experiences. […]
It looks like we may have had another tremor or Google search ranking algorithm update kickoff yesterday, Wednesday, January 18th. We just had after the December 2022 helpful content update other December 2022 link spam update finished on January 12th and now we have this, again. I am seeing both chatters from deep within the […]
Google Posts insights is no longer working, it has been discontinued according to the Google Business Profiles API documentation for the deprecation schedule. Mike Blumenthal first posted this the other day on Twitter, he said “Post insights are history.” “Google Business Profiles API deprecation schedule should be all the proof you need to realize that […]