Google’s Danny Sullivan explained the recent update, addressing site recoveries and cautioning against making radical changes to improve rankings. He also offered advice for publishes whose rankings didn’t improve after the last update. Google’s Still Improving The Algorithm Danny said that Google is still working on their ranking algorithm, indicating that more changes (for the … Read more
Google has updated its guidance on core algorithm updates, providing more detailed recommendations for impacted websites. The revised document, published alongside the August core update rollout, includes several additions and removals. New Sections Added The most significant change includes two new sections: “Check if there’s a traffic drop in Search Console” and “Assessing a large … Read more
Google updated the structured data guidance on a beta carousels structured data that is intended for users in the European Economic Area, which is related to Google’s preparations for the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The new guidance covers how to use this structured data on summary or category pages and for paginated categories. Carousel (Beta) … Read more
Google has added a new bullet point in the structured data carousels (beta) help documentation around how to mark up categories with many items with that structured data. This is based on examples pages such as paginated content or infinite scroll. Google added this new line under the “guidelines” section”: Mark up all items that … Read more
YouTube issued guidance to creators and marketers on the best times to upload videos for maximum reach. For news, trends, or content with a shorter lifespan, it’s best to post as soon as possible. However, if you’re sharing evergreen content, the platform suggests posting at whatever time suits you prefer. Live videos. To maximize reach … Read more
Google updated their emergency and non-emergency image removal guidance with added details that give new clarity to the documentation. Removing Images From Search Index Google offers multiple ways to remove images from the search index on both an emergency and non-emergency basis. There are multiple relatively trivial changes but these are the topics that had … Read more
Google updated their job posting structured data guidance in order to change the requirements of how to best keep Google notified of new webpages and changes to existing webpages. Google Job Posting Structured Data Guidance Google’s job posting structured data guidance is designed to help publishers become eligible for enhanced visibility in Google Search results … Read more
Google updated their spam policies for web search and the guide to ranking systems to clarify how Google handles sites with a high number of non-consensual explicit imagery and requests for their removals. The changes are to the policy that specifically mentions sites that charge for removal of negative information but the guidance also states … Read more
Google updated the structured data related to the Video features rich results shown in Google search with new recommendations that influence the **** and time the video was published. VideoObject Structured Data Type Changes The VideoObject structured data type is used by Google for displaying various kinds of rich results in Google Search, Google Discover, … Read more
Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, posted a Twitter thread, with slides from a presentation he prepared for an AOP event in London back in May around SEO and Google guidance for content syndication partners. Here is a summary of that Twitter thead, which basically repeats the advice Google offered after removing the canonicalization advice for … Read more
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