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Google Weekend Rating Teetering, 404 Spikes With /1000 URLs, Circle To Search & AI Multisearch, Bing Market Share & Google Degrading Examine

For the original iTunes version, click here. This week, I reported about a weird ranking pattern that has been emerging with these weekend ranking Google updates. Google Search Console shows a spike in 404 errors for URLs ending in /1000. Google launched Circle to Search and a new AI-powered multisearch. A new German study looks […]

Google Once more Says Spikes In Crawling Exercise Not A Signal Of The Useful Content material Replace Rollout

Google’s John Mueller was asked if a spike in crawler activity would be a sign that the helpful content update is rolling out. John said no, as expected because he said no to this question numerous times on previous updates. Here are the relevant set of tweets I am referencing here: No — 🖖 johnmu […]

Google Crawl Spikes After URL Parameter Instrument Went Offline?

As you know, last week, on April 26th, Google disables the URL parameter tool within Google Search Console and stopped respecting any of the rules added to that tool. Some are asking if the recent crawl spikes they saw with Googlebot was related to this change. Dave Smart posted on Twitter charts showing his crawl […]

Google Search Updates, High Tales Deduplication, Crawl Spikes, and Desktop Page Experience Report

In this show we have everything for you from creepy crawlies to blood sucking vampires and walking zombies. First, we’ve had a couple of unconfirmed updates to Google’s search algorithm this week, one last weekend, the second on Monday, and the third on Wednesday and Thursday. Google said they don’t release algorithm updates specifically ahead […]

Some web sites see huge crawl spikes from Google

Glenn Gabe noted that he’s been observing some strange Google bot activity recently and said he’s seeing “crawling spikes across a number of websites” beginning on January 12-13. I then checked some of the properties and found that I see the same thing on some, not most. To be clear this doesn’t apply to all […]