Google introduces Google-Extended to let you block Bard, Vertex AI via robots.txt
You can now prevent Bard and Vertex AI generative APIs, and future generations of models, from from accessing your website, or parts of it.
Topic: Google Search Central
Does guest blogging still work for SEO? Pros, cons and best practices
There are too many thoughts about guest blogging. Should you still use it? If so, what is the right approach? Here is what SEO experts say.
Can search engines detect AI content?
Explore the intricacies of AI-generated content in search and how Google's long-term goals might be shaping its response to the technology.
Google Search Console performance report delayed but Google will fix the issue
At the time of writing this story, the reports were delayed by over 65 hours.
Google Search Console adds new rich results report for “Subscribed content”
Reader Revenue Manager publishers can now measure traffic from Google Search queries and fix structured data.
How to master Google News optimization to boost content visibility and traffic
Google News-driven results send over 24 billion clicks per month to publishers. Here's how to claim your share.
Google Search Console breaks out Merchant listings and Product snippets appearances
This is an update to previously launched reports from last September.
Google adds ranking update history to Search Status Dashboard
Google said the new Ranking section of the Search Status dashboard will show active updates as well as history up to 2020.
Google rolled out new site names, favicon and sponsored label on desktop search
After launching this design for the mobile search results last October, this is now officially live for desktop search.
How to update content and dates for SEO in 2023
Google says that only significant content changes should lead to updated article dates. Here are a few ways you can approach this.
Google releases February 2023 product reviews update
This update brings new languages to the product reviews update including English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, and Polish.
Google Search Console adds daily bulk data exports to BigQuery
This will allow you to potentially do more analysis with your data in other platforms.
Resolve to get SEO done in 2023 – Here’s how
This year, overcome common obstacles to search success and get SEO done right with these five resolutions.
Rich results: 22 facts every SEO pro needs to know
Rich results, schema markup and structured data – where do you start? Get answers to your rich result questions from this article.
Google releases October 2022 spam update
This is a global update that may take several days to fully roll out.
Google replaces its Webmaster Guidelines with Google Search Essentials
Google has done a full refresh of its old Webmaster Guidelines, simplifying them and removing the term "webmaster."
Google Search Console to remove International Targeting report
Google said it will continue to hreflang and the recommendations for managing multilingual and multiregional sites.
Google Search Console’s video indexing report now live for all
You will only see it if you have videos on your site that Google can detect.
Google Search Console reported pages as being indexed when they were not indexed
This affected "many" Google Search Console properties, so make sure to check your reports in the next couple of days.
Google reenables the validate fix feature in Search Console and adds new classifications
As expected, Google has launched the new classifications for the coverage report with a tour to walk you through the changes.
Top technical SEO issues every webmaster should master
How to improve your SEO ranking and generate a better user experience.
Google temporarily disables the validate fix feature in Search Console
Google is updating something in Search Console and for now, you can't issue new validation requests.
Google confirmed indexing issue affecting a large number of sites
If you are not seeing traffic from Google for new content you published, you are not alone.
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.
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 doesn’t want your AI-generated SEO spam content
Filed under 'not new, but a good reminder': AI-generated content is 'spam' and is against Google's Webmaster Guidelines.
Google page experience update for desktop done rolling out
After 9-days this page experience update for desktop is now fully rolled out.
Google URL inspection tool bug leading to errors for some
Google is working on fixing the issue to resolve these errors.
Expect more messages in Google Search Console
Google said it finished the migration of all the messages into the new Search Console interface.
Google Search Console accessibility issues fully resolved five days later
Although, it seems most of us have been able to access this tool for the past few days.
Google Search Console inaccessible for some users
Many SEOs have reported being unable to access Google Search Console.
Google also had a local search update from November 30 through December 8
This overlapped other ranking updates and a Google map and local pack update design change.
Google confirmed serving issue with Google Search results
If you see your content not showing up in Google Search this morning, you are not alone - it is a confirmed Google bug.
Google November 2021 core update is finished rolling out
This update surprised many, since it started to roll out on November 17th and continued rolling out over the largest online shopping period for the year.
Google November 2021 Core Update rolling out today
We have a new core update rolling out later today.
Google on Penguin algorithm; aims to ignore spammy links but can lead to distrusting your site
Maybe it is best to avoid link building and build a site that naturally gains links?
Fancy like????… why brands should pay attention to TikTok
Plus, Microsoft’s new credit card ads
E-commerce SEO guide: New documentation from Google
The new guide from Google gives e-commerce SEOs documentation they can take to clients and stakeholders to get their recommendations implemented.
Google link spam update done rolling out
It took an extra two weeks longer than expected to roll out.
Google Search Console performance report adds Math Solvers as search appearance filter
You can now see how your Math Solvers markup is doing using Google Search Console Performance reports.