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.
Rich Results
Google’s Rich Results are special search results that encompass a variety of features and enhancements, including rich cards, rich snippets, and enriched results. These may take the form of how-to instructions, recipes, job listings, and more.
Check back daily for the freshest content on Rich Snippets to help you optimize your site effectively.
The benefits of dynamic rendering for SEO
Google is getting better at crawling JavaScript, but there are still limitations. At SMX Next, Nati Elimelich explained how dynamic rendering can overcome those limitations while avoiding potential cloaking issues.
8 SEO tools to get Google Search Console URL Inspection API insights
Discover some free tools, SEO crawler integrations, and scripts to leverage with Google Search Console URL Inspection API insights.
Google Search Console error reporting for Breadcrumbs and HowTo structured data changed
This change may result in seeing more or less errors in your Breadcrumbs and HowTo structured data Search Console enhancement and error reports.
Google releases URL Inspection Tool API
You can now programmatically access the data you'd request from the URL Inspection Tool within Google Search Console.
Google Search Console products rich result report error handling updated
On December 28, 2021 Google made a change to how it evaluates and reports errors in product structured data, so you may see a change in errors in that report going forward.
SEO 2021 in review: Endless updates, title rewrites, GMB becomes GBP and more
Despite facing a still-raging pandemic and a slew of updates, SEOs rose to the challenge. Here’s our recap of the year’s most important SEO stories and news.
Google Review Snippets rich results report updated
You may see a reduction in the number of review objects in this report starting on December 14, 2021.
Google recommends placing videos on dedicated pages for maximum exposure
Google updated its video best practices SEO guide to say if you want a video to perform well in search, place it prominently on a dedicated page.
Google removes 12 structured data fields from the help documents
This may impact HowTo, QAPage and SpecialAnnouncement rich results and reporting.
Navigating Google’s title changes: The rollout, what’s happening now and what you can do about it
SEOs share their experiences with Google’s new system for generating title links and what they’re doing to keep their titles intact.
Google Search Console’s public-facing tools to match URL Inspection tool; Tuesday’s daily brief
Plus, Microsoft adds some nifty features to its Smart Page site builder.
Google Search Console testing tools to match URL Inspection tool
The AMP, Mobile Friendly, and Rich Results testing tools will "align" with the URL Inspection tool, said Google.
Google publishes new help documents on controlling titles and descriptions in search
Plus, Google has introduced a new term, "title link," for the title of a search result on Google Search.
Something is off with this morning’s newsletter; Friday’s daily brief
Google Search Console beefs up rich results errors.
Google Search Console adds new rich results status reports errors
Here are some details for the rich result reports from Google to help you perform better in the search results.
Google Search Console products enhancements report gains more granular errors
Starting September 29th, you may see changes in your products rich results enhancements report in Search Console.
Staying virtual; Wednesday’s daily brief
Plus, how to set up Google Analytics 4 using Google Tag Manager.
Search marketing in the dark: Google, give us more data!; Wednesday’s daily brief
Also Google said HTML title tags still used for ranking purposes.
Google Search Console lost performance report data for August 23rd and 24th
The data won't be replaced or backfilled, as we hoped for.