Google recently announced that it expanded translated results in the search results to more languages, which was great to see. Also, it’s important to understand the data is available in Google Search Console’s performance reporting (and available via the API with some added benefit). I’ll explain more about that soon. But while speaking with site … Read more
Several site owners have reached out to me recently about a scary spike in indexing that then drops back down to normal levels. This is showing up in the coverage reporting in Google Search Console and the site owners thought it could be a sign of something terrible happening SEO-wise. For example, Google suddenly indexing … Read more
Google launched AI overviews in the SERPs in the United States officially on May 14th at I/O. This follows the launch of Google’s Search Generative Experience (SGE) in May of 2023. And with the US launch recently, Google explained AI overviews data would be available in Google Search Console, but that data would not be … Read more
Working in SEO leads to interesting challenges that I’m sure you’ve all faced at one point. You’re a master of flexibility and managing tedious tasks. I’ve recently found myself dealing with 100+ top-tier sites. Working with global companies, it’s quite the puzzle to: Wrangle data for 100+ sites. Keep tabs on every site’s performance. And, … Read more
If you’ve always been in awe of folks using the Google Search Console API to do cool things, this article is a good read for you. You can use BigQuery with the GSC bulk data export to get some of the same benefits without requiring the help of a developer. With BigQuery, you can efficiently … Read more
BigQuery has a number of advantages not found with other tools when it comes to analyzing large volumes of Google Search Console (GSC) data. It lets you process billions of rows in seconds, enabling deep analysis across massive datasets. This is a step up from Google Search Console, which only allows you to export 1,000 … Read more
As I’ve been analyzing the impact from the August broad core update (I’ll have more to share on that soon…), I’ve been digging into drops and surges across sites. For larger-scale sites, I often come across pockets of content that I want to take a closer look at from a quality standpoint. And as part … Read more
Starting in July, some sites are seeing an increase in canonical pages errors shown in Google Search Console, with Google choosing different canonical pages than the ones declared by the website. In most cases, Google’s chosen canonical pages don’t make sense. It does look like this issue has resolved, but I thought it was worth … Read more
If you are confused when Google reports redirects as other categories, like “blocked by robots.txt”, “soft 404s”, “noindexed”, “404s”, and others, it could be Google silently following the redirect and reporting the status of the true destination url instead. My post covers the situation in detail, and provides examples of this happening in the wild. … Read more
Google rolled out continuous scroll in the desktop search results in the U.S. on December 5, 2022, which follows a rollout in the mobile search results in October of 2021. It’s basically like infinite scroll for the search results. When you approach the bottom of page one, the second page of results seamlessly load, enabling … Read more
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