Google Search Console Insights now supports Google Analytics 4
Previously if you only had GA4 set up for your site, Search Console Insights would not work but now it does.
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 can be followed on Twitter here.
Google rich results guidelines now prohibits weapons, recreational drugs, tobacco & vaping products and gambling-related products
This better aligns Google Search guidelines with merchant guidelines.
Google documents how to inject canonical tags using JavaScript
Google still recommends you avoid using JavaScript for canonical tags but if you must, Google provided these recommendations.
Google Maps adds new store location feature, Locator Plus, Reserve with Google integration, new analytics and more
The familiarity of these features might be welcomed by your website users but it might also make you more reliant on Google services.
Yoast SEO Premium now offers IndexNow
Finally, those who use Yoast SEO premium can easily toggle on IndexNow for their WordPress sites.
Googlebot will crawl and index the first 15MB of content per page
Make sure the content you want Googlebot to crawl, index and ultimately rank is within the first 15MB of that page.
Google adds LGBTQ+ owned attribute to business profiles
These labels can help some businesses with visibility and potentially increase conversions.
Revamped Google News design goes live with top stories, local news and personalized articles
Google also has re-launched Google News in Spain.
Google cuts back on SEO office hours format, frequency
This is a substantial change to the original format that has been so helpful to SEOs over the past decade.
Google updated guidelines for product variants pages and rich results
If you have pages with product variant switches, it may reduce your chances to show rich results in Google Search.
Google testing new featured snippet layouts
If Google begins to show two or more featured snippets, that can impact your CTR and conversions from Google Search.
Google Search Console compare feature in performance reports
This feature can be very useful in debugging Google Search issues with rankings, indexing and potentially crawling.
DuckDuckGo drops below 100 million searches per day
After 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.
Google Search Console item classifications updated to show valid or invalid
This is just a reporting change, no changes have been made to crawling, indexing or rankings with this announcement.
Google to sunset old Search Console message panel
Google will officially remove the legacy message panel on August 1, 2022.
Twitter removes nofollow attribute from links in tweets
It is unclear if Twitter intentionally removed the attribute or not and even so, if Google would count links in Twitter posts.
Google May 2022 core update is finished rolling out
This 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.
Google updates its title algorithm for multi-language or transliterated/scripted titles
Make sure your titles match the language and/or script of your page or Google may change it for you.
Google help document adds author markup best practices
Make sure to verify that you are following these new best practices to ensure your rich results show properly in Google Search.
Google adds learning video rich results
These rich results show in English in all regions for academic learning content on desktop and mobile.
Google drops support for job training structured data
Google said they didn't find this structured data and rich results useful after its tests.
Google Search Console reporting issue with News performance report
This is just a reporting issue, actual ranking and performance was not impacted in Google Search.
Google’s May 2022 core update was significant and hit fast
The data is in early from the tracking tools and here is what these tools are showing with the latest Google algorithm update.
More FAQ rich results being displayed in Google Search
RankRanger data and SEO evidence shows Google is displaying more FAQ rich results.
Google releases May 2022 broad core update
Over six months since the last core update, Google is now rolling out this new broad core update.
Google Ads bug inflating some cost-per-click (CPCs) for non-US campaigns
There is no ETA for a fix but Google is aware of the issue and working on a resolution.
Chrome will show Google Lens results in the same browser tab
Instead of Google opening a new window, the Google Lens results will be on the right side of the page.
Is Google Search showing fewer sitelinks
Google use to show as many as six sitelinks in its search results - now it seems to show at most four. Maybe this was a layout change to vertical sitelinks?
Google News new design being tested
This is currently a limited trial but changes to Google News may impact some publishers.
Google Ads issue with access to video pages frontend
It is not just you, there is an issue impacting the majority of Google Ads advertisers.
Vimeo adds structured data to all public videos to improve Google Search visibility
These changes should help the videos you upload to Vimeo gain more visibility in Google's search results.
Google Search Console page experience report now tracks more desktop search features
This may lead to an increase in impressions in your page experience report and performance reports.
Microsoft Bing drops anonymous sitemap submission due to spam issues
You can now only submit sitemaps to Bing using robots.txt or Bing Webmaster Tools.
Google Search Console adds translated results search appearance filter
This lets you drill down to how searchers who get translated results interact with your content in Google Search.
Google Search Console to release new video page indexing report
Soon you will be able to better debug your video indexing issues with Google Search Console.
Google Universal Analytics real time metrics now titled “in the last 5 minutes”
The measurements have not changed, this is just a title change for clarification purposes.
Google multisearch to gain near me support
Soon you will be able to search by image for matches of places, stores or restaurants near you.
New Education Q&A structured data help document from Google
This document can help you technically implement Quiz structured data to your flashcard pages.
Google adds new valid page metadata help document
Google has also updated the title links help document with a new "no clear main headline" line.
Google now allows virtual food brands to have Google Business Profiles
Google has updated its business profile guidelines to allow some delivery-only food brands.