Google says mobile-first indexing is complete after almost 7 years
Google said it will turn off the indexing crawler information in the settings page in Search Console.
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Google Bard can now respond in real time
There is a setting to turn this real-time response off.
Google fixes issue with serving Search results
Google said you may see an error page when doing a search.
Google Maps new search results makes photos significantly more important
This is a new "photo-first" search result layout where business owners need to pay more attention to the photos that show up for their business listings.
Google Ads testing new overview dashboard for advertisers
Google confirmed this is an experiment they are trying with a select number of advertisers.
Google rolls out about this image and more SGE links
Google said the links in SGE AI answers are from high-quality sites.
Google syntax graph merge for structured data
This allows you to use different syntaxes that can now connect together.
Data providers on the Google October 2023 core and spam update
This was a very big set of Google updates, here is an analysis.
Google rich results for events removed from search snippets
You may have noticed a reduction in clicks from Google Search related to this change.
Google sees spike in failed hostload exceeded error in Search Console
Google's request indexing tool may be having issues due to abuse by spammers.
Google October 2023 spam update done rolling out
This spam update targeted several spam tactics and had a larger impact in some non-English languages.
Google October 2023 Core Update rollout is now complete
This felt like a big update, taking almost 14 days to fully roll out.
Google Rich Results Test now supports paywalled content
You can use this new feature to validate that Google Search understands your content is paywalled.
Google updates Favicon search documentation
Google removed the Favicon user agent and said you must allow Googlebot and Googlebot-Image for Google to index your site's favicon.
Google Business Profiles adds disabled-owned attribute to listings
Google also added new accessibility features to Google Maps.
Google adds new vehicle listings structured data
With this new structured data, Gogole launched a new rich results report and testing tool support for the markup.
Google Ads serving/spending issue resolved after almost 3 days
Late Friday afternoon, Google has told us the issue with Google Ads has been resolved.
Google Search officially stops indented results
Google's Search Liaison confirmed Google stopped indenting search results a "few weeks ago."
Google Search Generative Experience can now create images
Plus Google SGE can provide written drafts.
Google-Extended does not stop Google Search Generative Experience from using your site’s content
Instead, you need to block SGE by blocking Googlebot completely.
Google testing more subtle Search Generative Experience design
This "lite" version as some are calling it fits better with the current traditional search results.
Google resolves indexing issue with new content after nearly 6 hours
Google confirmed the issue and said it delayed the indexing of newly published content between 1:30 pm and 7:20 p.m.
Google releases October 2023 broad core update
This is the third Google core update of 2023. The rollout is expected to take up to two weeks to complete.
Google unleashes October 2023 spam update
Google said this update improves its "coverage in many languages and spam types" and will roll out over the next few weeks.
Google bringing Bard to Google Assistant
This will be released in the "coming months" on iOS and Android, Google said.
Impact of the Google September 2023 helpful content was big for the SEO industry
Overall, the tools did not show as much volatility with the helpful content update than it did with core updates - but this was a big update.
Google September 2023 helpful content is now done rolling out
This update kicked off on September 14 and took 14 days to roll out.
ChatGPT Browse with Bing returns after being disabled 3 months ago
This was disabled related to ChatGPT using content from content behind a paywall.
Google to block Bard’s shared chats from showing in Google Search
After Google released shared conversations in Bard, Google Search began crawling and indexing those public chats.
Microsoft adds controls to disallow content in Bing Chat
This utilizes NOCACHE and NOARCHIVE tag and more features may come in the future.
TikTok testing displaying links to Google search results
TikTok is showing links to conduct a search at Google Search.
Google’s helpful content update did not yet target hosted third-party content
Gary Illyes from Google said this was just a change made to the documentation and was not implemented in its algorithms yet.
Bing Chat rolling out personalized answers
Today at the Microsoft AI event Bing Chat showed off some new memory search features.
Bing Webmaster Tools performance report gains new data but you can’t filter by just Bing Chat data
You can filter by web and chat combined, you can filter by news, images, videos and even knowledge panels.
Wix adds IndexNow support for faster indexing
Now over 60 million websites are published over 1.4 billion URLs per day to IndexNow.
Bing explains the new Sitemap Index Coverage report
After quietly rolling out the new sitemap in Webmaster Tools, Bing explains how it works.
Bing Webmaster Tools disavow link tool is going away
After about a decade, Bing has decided to sunset the disavow link because it is no longer needed.
Google Search can now validate responses from Bard
Plus, Bard PaLM 2 model is better, expanded more features and new Bard extensions.
What’s new with the Google helpful content update
Now that Google has released the September 2023 helpful content update, let's dig in to see what is new.
Google September 2023 helpful content system update rolling out
The update should take two weeks to roll out, Google said. This is the first helpful content system update since December 2022.