Core Web Vitals report within Google Search Console updated
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Barry Schwartz is 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.
You may see a change in the number of URLs reported in the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console
Barry Schwartz | Mar 28, 2023 at 7:57 am ETMake sure to rerun any scripts you have that may be missing data from the Bing Webmaster Tools API.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 28, 2023 at 7:56 am ETThis is an update to previously launched reports from last September.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 27, 2023 at 1:36 pm ETWhitespark has surveyed dozens of local SEO experts to compile what they believe are the most important ranking factors for local search.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 26, 2023 at 10:25 am ETGoogle said it will link to citations when Bard directly quote at length from a webpage.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 22, 2023 at 11:17 am ETGoogle said the new Ranking section of the Search Status dashboard will show active updates as well as history up to 2020.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 21, 2023 at 6:13 pm ETYou can sign up for the waitlist if you are based in the US or UK.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 21, 2023 at 11:03 am ETThis is powered by the DALL∙E model and is rolling out to Bing Chat.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 21, 2023 at 9:16 am ETWe are now seeing Bing Chat answers in the Bing Search results, in place of Bing Search Answers.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 20, 2023 at 9:36 am ETThis is the first Google core update of 2023 and the first in more than six months. The rollout may take up to 2 weeks to complete.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 15, 2023 at 10:37 am ETThis version promises greater accuracy and broader general knowledge and advanced reasoning.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 14, 2023 at 1:26 pm ETPlus, Bing Chat has passed 100 million daily active users.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 13, 2023 at 10:30 am ETSemrush compared the sixth release against the July 2022 version, while Rank Ranger compared it against September 2022 data.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 9, 2023 at 9:00 am ETAfter launching this design for the mobile search results last October, this is now officially live for desktop search.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 8, 2023 at 1:30 pm ETSEOs, content creators and marketers use Google Trends as part of their toolset, so this update might be useful for all of you.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 8, 2023 at 9:33 am ETThis update took 14 days to fully roll out and is now complete.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 7, 2023 at 1:19 pm ETSince 11:50am ET, Twitter has been having major issues with its services.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 6, 2023 at 12:25 pm ETNot all featured snippets will see text highlighted in blue, but many now do.
Barry Schwartz | Mar 6, 2023 at 9:42 am ETThe local pack that Google generally shows for queries with local intent has gone missing.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 28, 2023 at 11:34 am ETMicrosoft said they will be adding reporting and tools to Bing Webmaster Tools to help publishers understand how Bing Chat users interact with their sites.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 28, 2023 at 10:25 am ETThese updates include a higher response rate and less hallucinations.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 28, 2023 at 7:48 am ETMicrosoft is slowly rolling out upgrades to Bing AI chat including setting the tone to creative, balanced or precise.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 27, 2023 at 7:44 am ETGoogle confirmed this test will impact 4% of Canadians. It's similar to what Google did in Australia in 2021.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 23, 2023 at 11:45 am ETGoogle core updates and other algorithm updates impacted Discover, but now Google says the helpful content system does as well.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 23, 2023 at 8:27 am ETMake sure to review user permissions and levels of access with this update.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 22, 2023 at 10:28 am ETThis begins to roll out to some users on Bing and Edge mobile apps on iOS and Android.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 22, 2023 at 8:20 am ETCompany reveals details about how its Prometheus AI model makes Bing Chat so fast, current and impressive.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 22, 2023 at 7:26 am ETThis update brings new languages to the product reviews update including English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, and Polish.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 21, 2023 at 5:08 pm ETThis will allow you to potentially do more analysis with your data in other platforms.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 21, 2023 at 8:10 am ETInstead, Google recommends you use Google Search Console's crawl rate feature.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 17, 2023 at 12:35 pm ETSearch engines should not show search results as answers
Barry Schwartz | Feb 17, 2023 at 11:25 am ETContent creators may need to entertain and maybe Google should add a new E to E-E-A-T.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 17, 2023 at 9:25 am ETSusan Wojcicki has been with Google since its infancy, in fact, the first Google offices were out of her garage.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 16, 2023 at 1:42 pm ET71% gave thumbs up to the results in the new Bing. But Microsoft wants to make sure it gets better at providing timely information.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 16, 2023 at 7:41 am ETThis help document went from basics on crawlable links to a much more robust link best practices.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 15, 2023 at 4:48 pm ETWill traffic from search to publishers drop with the new long chat like answers.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 13, 2023 at 11:32 am ETGoogle posted that the time to interact metric is being removed from Lighthouse 10 and thus that scoring weight will be assigned to cumulative layout shift.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 10, 2023 at 12:53 pm ETThe excitement and interest are very real for the new Microsoft Bing search experience.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 10, 2023 at 10:22 am ETJanuary 18, 2023 there was a large Bing search ranking algorithm update - one that Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi now confirmed.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 9, 2023 at 4:51 pm ETAlso consider evaluating the "who, how and why" of your content.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 8, 2023 at 11:57 am ET