Blog / SEO Industry News / Internal Docs Leak Reveals Google Myths and Internal Features In late May 2024, the internal documentation for Google Search’s Content Warehouse API was leaked. There hasn’t been a leak this big or detailed from Google’s search division since Google’s launch into the market. The leaked documents reveal many secrets … Read more
This is part 2 of a series of posts I am writing to discover more about what we can learn from the information in the recently discovered Google documentation on API references. Yesterday we started to learn more about the files that were found that possibly discuss important factors in Google’s ranking systems. We learned … Read more
Well this has been an interesting week. Rand Fishkin published a fascinating article about a set of documents that was shared with him. These documents contain the documentation for making API calls to Google’s Cloud Content Warehouse. There is speculation, for good reason, that this documentation can help us learn a significant amount about Google’s … Read more
Google has made some changes to its new Structured data carousels (beta) documentation to list the feature availability of this carousel and also to clarify where to place the markup. Google wrote the “markup must be on the summary page, and you don’t need to add markup to the detail pages in order to be … Read more
A week ago Monday, March 18th, I noticed Google’s search developer documentation had generative AI features to help you find the answers to your question. This is in the form of an improved search, summary of the page content, a chat feature and more. I was told this was rolled out on some developer docs … Read more
Google has updated its page experience help documentation to clarify how core web vitals metrics are used as a ranking signal, in a light manner. Google also clarified that other page experience signals are not directly used for ranking purposes in Google Search. What Google wrote. The updated documentation is in the ranking section of … Read more
Google has updated its structured data documentation to now use hashtags for @id references. If you don’t use hashtags, it is fine, but Google said it is “schema best practice to use hashtags as resolvable in-page node identifiers in RDF.” Google explained they have switched “all structured data code examples that use in-page @id references … Read more
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