After over 32 hours of silence after the Google Search ranking data leak, Google has finally confirmed the leak, but urged caution around making assumptions on how Google Search ranking works based on the documents. Google sent me a statement that reads: We would caution against making inaccurate assumptions about Search based on out-of-context, outdated, … Read more
Google has confirmed an issue with the real-time analytics reports within Google Analytics, GA4. Many profiles show zero real-time traffic being reported since early this morning; some are seeing a fraction of their normal real-time traffic being reported, and some are seeing normal traffic. Google working on a fix. Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ads Liaison, responded … Read more
Blog / SEO Industry News / Ranking Issue, Huge Update Coming, and Other SEO News for January 2024 In this edition of our blog series on SEO news and trends, we’ll focus on a ranking issue that occurred where sites were removed from SERPs on weekends. We’ll also review the coming algorithm update, changes within … Read more
It has been almost 12 weeks since the last confirmed Google search ranking algorithm was released. That was the November 2023 reviews update. Before that was the November 2023 core update. Since then, we have had plenty of unconfirmed Google updates (or ranking bugs), but none have been confirmed. We know Google is working on … Read more
Google has confirmed that issue where sites would rank during the week and then not rank on the weekends – just wild. We had an unconfirmed Google ranking update this week after having a calm weekend. Google has dropped Appen, one of its largest sources for search quality raters. Google’s SEO starter guide is getting … Read more
As we approach the end of the year, it just seems Google is getting more and more volatile with its search results. Google also confirmed that “openness” as a local ranking signal was strengthened. On Thursday morning, Google had delayed indexing issues for some sites, but Google confirmed it hours later. Google’s Danny Sullivan collects … Read more
Earlier this month we covered a report from Sterling Sky that said the Google Local search ranking algorithm now uses if a location is open as part of its local ranking system. Google’s Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, confirmed the change late on Friday saying, “we’ve long used “openness” as part of our local ranking systems, … Read more
Google announced a new reviews update is going to roll out sometime next week and this new update will make the reviews update more real time. Thus Google will stop giving periodic notifications of improvements to its reviews system going forward. Google wrote, “We expect an update to our reviews system to start rolling out … Read more
Google is testing showing ads within the organic (free) search results. Generally, Google would show the ads at the top of each page set, even within the continuous scroll interface. But now Google has confirmed it is experimenting with showing these ads in additional spots within the search results listings. Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads … Read more
After hearing reports that the Google News team is working on fixing an issue, Google has confirmed it last *****. Many publishers were either not showing up in Google News or had limited visibility in Google News over the past few weeks. Google confirmed this is an “ongoing issue with indexing in Google News that’s … Read more
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