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Google Search Console now lets you set your shipping and return policies
Search Console shipping and return settings take precedence over other methods, like structured data.
Google working on fixing latency issues with the Search Performance reports
The reports within Search Console are now delayed by over 52 hours.
Report: Menu items, busier businesses may be Google local ranking signals
Google has not specifically confirmed this but a new local SEO report says these may be newly discovered local ranking signals.
Google June 2024 spam update done rolling out
This spam update took 7 days to fully roll out and is now complete.
Google dropping continuous scroll in search results
Continuous scroll launched in Google mobile search in October 2021 and on desktop in December 2022.
Google Search resolves indexing bug that lasted several hours
The issue affected indexing in Google Search and impacted new content published across both large and small publishers.
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Google Search now supports return policy markup at the organization-level
A year ago, Google added support for return policy structured data support for merchant listing and now Google is expanding that support to the organization level.
Google Search Console Performance report adds merchant listings to images report
Google now will show the merchant listing performance within the Google Search Image tab in Search Console data.
Google Search fixes issues with Site names not appearing for internal pages
This has been an issue since last December but Google said it still needs to reprocess your page for the issue to be resolved.
Google’s link reporting tool is now fixed
Last week there was a bug with the Google Search Console report.
Google won’t index sites that do not work on mobile devices after July 5
if your website is not accessible using a mobile device, then Google will no longer index it and rank it.
Google restores News and Discover after widespread disruption
Google identified and fixed its technical difficulties with serving, but it may have impacted news publisher traffic.
Google explains how it is improving its AI Overviews
Google said only one in every 7 million unique queries resulted in a Google policy violation.
Google Search Console link report may be broken today
Many are noticing huge declines in the number of links reported in the link report within the Google tool.
Google Search Console reporting error for product snippets
You may have noticed a spike in impressions and clicks between May 15 to May 27 - it was a bug.
Google responds to leak: Documentation lacks context
Google won't comment on the specific elements in the document, in order to keep its ranking system safe and secure.
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Google is testing special snippet treatment for Reddit search results
This will very likely lead to even more traffic sent by Google Search to Reddit.
WordPress 6.5 gains lastmod date for sitemaps files
Google and Bing both encourage sites to include accurate lastmod dates within sitemap files.
Google adds two new Googlebot crawlers: GoogleOther-Image and GoogleOther-Video
Google said these new crawlers are to "better support crawling of binary data that may be used for research and development."
Google rolls out AI Overviews in US with more countries coming soon
AI Overview link cards get a higher click through rate than normal web search results but Google won't break out click data in Search Consoles for content creators.
Technical SEO tips to master Google core updates
Make sure your site checks all the technical aspects of SEO, including website structure, URL optimization, page speed, and crawlability.
Surviving and thriving in the new Google
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Google begins enforcement of site reputation abuse policy with portions of sites being delisted
Sites like CNN, USA Today, LA Times and others are seeing their rented subdomains and subfolders dropping in rankings after they were hit by manual actions.
Google disavow link tool will go away at some point
John Mueller said, "At some point, I'm sure we'll remove it," referring to the disavow link tool in Google Search Console.
Google March 2024 core update rollout is now complete
The first core update of 2024 finished rolling out on April 19 - this was a pretty big one but it overlapped with other big changes leading to a 45% reduction in unhelpful content.
Google Publisher Center to stop allowing you to add publications
Instead, Google will automatically add eligible publishers and will eventually remove those publishers not eligible.
Google structured data carousels (beta) clarified for summary pages
Google also added the feature availability for this carousel beta.
Google did not drop Web Stories from image results
Google issued a correction plus explained Search Console had a reporting bug with Web Stories in Image Search.
Google adds 3D model markup for product structured data
Now when you have multiple images, this markup can help Google known which image the 3D image references.
Google March 2024 spam update done rolling out
The spam update took nearly 15 days to complete. Google's core update is still rolling out, so we're not done yet. Remain seated and buckled.
Google to replace perspectives filter with forums filter
The perspectives carousels, clusters and traditional web page listings will remain.
Google updates its page experience docs to clarify ranking signals
Core Web Vitals are a ranking signal but not other page experience signals.
What we’re seeing a week into the Google March 2024 core and spam updates
Ranking volatility hit on Friday and Saturday, with limited reversals on Monday after a storm of manual actions last Thursday.
Google Interaction to Next Paint coming to Core Web Vitals this Tuesday
Don't confuse this with the Google Core Update - they are two very different things.
Google issues search ranking penalties through manual actions
Check your properties within Google Search Console for manual actions to see if your were impacted.
Google Search Console recipe rich result report adds two new properties
Google added recipeInstructions and recipeIngredient and thus you may see an increase in warnings for recipe items.
Google Search turned off some event rich results
Google says you may see a drop in clicks and impressions for your event search appearance reported metrics in your performance report.