In this week’s video, we cover how Google said they try not to overlap search algorithm updates but then announced the rollout of the fifth product reviews update before the core update was done. We also dug into the product reviews update and what we are seeing from it. There is a bug with Google […]
Google’s Aurora Morales posted on Twitter that her team has updated the Google Ads Traffic Quality site to provide more examples of what is invalid traffic. The previous site had seven examples, the new site now has twelve examples. This is the old list based on the Wayback Machine: What is invalid user activity? What […]
This week, I posted the large Google webmaster report a bit late but then dug into the Google helpful content in a lot more detail, so check that out. Google updated the review type results in search which may impact your Search Console reporting. Google Analytics made changes to the Google Ads search query reports […]
LinkedIn continues to add new ways to help creators maximize engagement in the app, this time via a new templates option for postswhich provides a range of text formatting and background options for your LinkedIn updates. As you can see in this sequence, you can now tap on the new ‘Use a Template’ option in […]
Google announced it has changed how it displays search results for queries that use queries. The search snippet will now display the portion of the page where the quotes match, so the searcher knows where to look on the page when clicking through to the URL. Google’s Yonghao Jin wrote “Now we’re making quoted searches […]
Google has updated its Google Search Quality Raters Guidelines PDF just a bit over 9 months since the last update. The document keeps getting smaller, from 175 pages in 2020 to 172 pages in 2021 and now to 167 pages in 2022. Here is what Google documented it changed: Refreshed language to be aligned with […]
Google has updated the suicide prevention box in its search results with a new hotline number and a chat support option. “While Google has included suicide prevention information at the top of relevant search results for many years, this new hotline will make it easier for people in emotional distress and seeking mental health support […]
Google has updated the user agent string for the AdsBot Mobile Web crawler. Google said if you hard-coded the old user agent string, you will want to make sure to update that in your code. This was updated in the Google crawler documentation. The new user agent string for Google AdsBot Mobile Web is: Mozilla/5.0 […]
Google has created a new landing page in the Google Search Central help documentation section for the latests major algorithm updates. This is only the updates Google deems “relevant to website owners” and most hyperlink to their announcements on their blog about these updates. The new page is over at developers.google.com/search/updates/ranking and is a short […]
We may have had another update, an unconfirmed Google Search algorithm update on June 27th and 28th. Google’s Danny Sullivan talked about how Google communicates about Google algorithm updates at the Google NYC SEO meetup. Google has updated the rich results guidelines to disallow marking up products that are widely prohibited or regulated, or that […]