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Google says major changes coming to search rankings
Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison, was quoted as saying that major changes are coming Google's search ranking algorithms.
Google adds reports for learning video rich results
The reports are within Google Search Console's performance report, where you filter by search appearance.
Google releases November 2023 reviews update
This is the third reviews update of the year and the last reviews update Google will likely confirm.
Google page experience report updated in Search Console
Plus the good page experience search appearance filter from the Performance report has been removed.
How Danny Sullivan shares SEO issues with Google’s Search team
Part of job of the Search Liaison at Google is to share feedback on how to improve search.
Google November 2023 core update released
The reviews update will be switching to ongoing regular updates, which means Google will not be announcing future review updates.
Google fixed a bug with the October 2023 core update impacting Discover traffic
Some sites may see an increase in their Discover traffic starting soon.
Google adds small business attribute and other information to business profiles and shopping listings
Google is also rolling out Product Studio.
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.
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.
How to repair your Google search results and reclaim your online reputation
Learn three steps for removing or suppressing negative Google search results that harm your brand's reputation.
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 Search officially stops indented results
Google's Search Liaison confirmed Google stopped indenting search results a "few weeks ago."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Overcoming the Google SGE challenge: Assessment and recovery strategies
Join this webinar to learn how it will impact your traffic and more.
How the August 2023 Google core update compared to March 2023 core updates
We asked some of the Google tracking data providers for data on the latest Google algorithm update.
Google Search Console rolling out new Merchant Center integrated reports
These new reports will show you issues with products not showing on Search and changes in visibility of your product listings.
Google Search updated its language matching systems
This update was released a couple of weeks ago and helps Google match the searchers language to documents in its index.
Google August 2023 Core Update rollout is now complete
The update took 16 days to roll out - we hope you only saw increases in visibility.
Google Site names now work for all languages
So if your site is not in English, check how your Site name appears in Google Search.
Is Google’s new AI chatbot the Bard of the digital age?
Explore its functionalities, use cases and how it’s redefining the AI landscape in our guide.
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)
Google Search Generative Experience officially rolls out links to webpages within answers
Launching first in the U.S., Google said it will keep testing how it presents results and prioritize driving traffic to websites.