Google Merchant Center auto-tagging now supported on all shopping experiences
You can then use this data to determine if you want to change product inventory decisions, marketing budgets and strategy.
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You can then use this data to determine if you want to change product inventory decisions, marketing budgets and strategy.
Barry Schwartz | Jul 7, 2022 at 7:24 am ETPreviously if you only had GA4 set up for your site, Search Console Insights would not work but now it does.
Barry Schwartz | Jul 6, 2022 at 10:25 am ETThis better aligns Google Search guidelines with merchant guidelines.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 30, 2022 at 1:00 pm ETGoogle still recommends you avoid using JavaScript for canonical tags but if you must, Google provided these recommendations.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 30, 2022 at 9:21 am ETThe familiarity of these features might be welcomed by your website users but it might also make you more reliant on Google services.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 29, 2022 at 12:00 pm ETFinally, those who use Yoast SEO premium can easily toggle on IndexNow for their WordPress sites.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 28, 2022 at 2:45 pm ETMake sure the content you want Googlebot to crawl, index and ultimately rank is within the first 15MB of that page.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 23, 2022 at 10:39 am ETThese labels can help some businesses with visibility and potentially increase conversions.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 22, 2022 at 9:00 am ETGoogle also has re-launched Google News in Spain.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 22, 2022 at 12:01 am ETThis is a substantial change to the original format that has been so helpful to SEOs over the past decade.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 21, 2022 at 11:43 am ETIf you have pages with product variant switches, it may reduce your chances to show rich results in Google Search.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 21, 2022 at 8:19 am ETIf Google begins to show two or more featured snippets, that can impact your CTR and conversions from Google Search.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 16, 2022 at 9:23 am ETThis feature can be very useful in debugging Google Search issues with rankings, indexing and potentially crawling.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 15, 2022 at 8:00 pm ETAfter having over 100 million searches per day since January 2021, the privacy focused search engine has been under that figure for the past few months.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 15, 2022 at 10:15 am ETThis is just a reporting change, no changes have been made to crawling, indexing or rankings with this announcement.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 15, 2022 at 7:24 am ETGoogle will officially remove the legacy message panel on August 1, 2022.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 13, 2022 at 10:58 am ETIt is unclear if Twitter intentionally removed the attribute or not and even so, if Google would count links in Twitter posts.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 10, 2022 at 2:57 pm ETThis update took 15 days to roll out and is now done, you should now dig in and see how your site was impacted and what actions to take next.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 9, 2022 at 6:03 am ETMake sure your titles match the language and/or script of your page or Google may change it for you.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 3, 2022 at 9:27 am ETMake sure to verify that you are following these new best practices to ensure your rich results show properly in Google Search.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 1, 2022 at 3:45 pm ET