SEO
Google to enforce unique product identifiers on free merchant listings
Starting on September 15, 2021, Google said it will begin to enforce the requirement of products having unique product identifiers in the merchant...
Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.
Bing SEO
Bing content submission API now available to all
Now you can push your content and HTML directly to Bing Search without the need for...
Google: Algorithm Updates
Google page experience update is now rolled out
The Google News app changes have about a week more to...
newsletters
Search marketing in the dark: Google, give us more data!; Wednesday’s daily brief
Also Google said HTML title tags still used for ranking...
Google: Search Console
Google Search Console lost performance report data for August 23rd and 24th
The data won't be replaced or backfilled, as we hoped...
SEO
Title changes in Google Search causing distress; Wednesday’s daily brief
Also Google Shopping bug and Google Ads campaign set up...
Google: SEO
Google confirms it changed how it creates titles for search result listings
Google no longer uses the query to generate these titles but still uses HTML title tags 80% of the...
Google link spam update done rolling out
It took an extra two weeks longer than expected to roll...
SEO
Google rankings fluctuation, pages are dropping and reappearing in the index; Wednesday’s daily brief
Plus, structured data testing tool...
Google adds author URL property to uniquely identify authors of articles
Google added a new recommended author.url property to the article structured data...
Google: SEO
Google’s legacy structured data testing tool is now gone
Google replaced it with a navigational page to direct you to the Google rich results tool or Schema.org...
Google drops safe browsing as a page experience ranking signal
Google updated the page experience report in Search...
SEO
Do you follow the Google guidelines?; Wednesday’s daily brief
Also, Target impression share in Microsoft Advertising...
Google math solver guidelines require accuracy
Google has added a number of technical and content quality guidelines to math solver...
SEO
Did Google admit it uses click data for search? Not really.; Friday’s daily brief
And, you’re no longer allowed more than one ClaimReview element per...
Google now limits one ClaimReview element per page
Previously, Google's guidelines allowed for multiple Fact Checks per page but that has...
Google: SEO
Google’s universal search results bid for placement and may be influenced by clicks
In the Search Off The Record podcast, Gary Illyes of Google described how Google ranks news, images, videos and other indexes within the main search...
SEO
The Google link spam update is rolling out; Wednesday’s daily brief
And, the review stars are back in Google Search...
Google review snippets bug seems resolved
Google seems to have fixed the bug where review snippets were not displaying in Google...