Google has a bug in Google Search Console where it reported some sites being indexed using mobile indexing as being indexed using desktop indexing. I am sure we all have sites that are “mobile friendly” and also show that Google is indexing it using the desktop crawler, when they should be using the mobile crawler … Read more
Google Search Console confirmed it had a bug in reporting video-specific traffic in the performance report between May 4th and May 17th. Google seems to have resolved the issue going forward but your reports between May 4 and May 17 might be lower than normal because of this bug. Google posted the issue over here … Read more
Performance Max (or PMax) campaigns are gaining traction among search advertisers. Google’s machine learning resources optimize ad placements across Google’s entire network of inventory. This lets advertisers maximize their efforts and reach their target audiences more efficiently. However, there are always trade-offs when taking advantage of these proprietary capabilities, especially as we lose more visibility … Read more
Google announced that it can now show expanded shipping and return information in the Google search results snippets. Google also added new Search Console reporting to help merchants debug these shipping and return structured data elements. The funny thing is that we saw these being tested and added several months ago and now Google said … Read more
Google’s search engine result pages are filled with an amazing combination of features to present many different types of content. From images to video to news to recipes, there’s no shortage of interesting features at your fingertips. And for site owners and SEOs, we want to track all of them, and at a granular level. … 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
Whether you are in-house, a freelancer, or at an agency, sooner or later, someone will want to see a dashboard report that shows how the SEO program is doing. And there’s nothing worse than building a dashboard and sharing it with various stakeholders only to realize no one ever looks at the dang thing. Most … Read more
Google has updated some of the reporting within Google Search Console to break out the differences between Merchant listings and Product snippets. You can see the difference in performance between how your search results do between Merchant listings and Product snippets now in Search Console. This was updated from the original Merchant listing Search Console … Read more
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