For the past few months or so, I’ve been tracking reports that suggest that Google Search Console is not properly tracking clicks and impressions from the local pack. This first came up in September and after numerous requests from SEOs, I have not seen a serious reply from Google on the matter, not yet at least.
Related Posts
Google: Sites With Good Category Pages Don’t Need Internal Search Results Indexed
Generally, Google says you should never let Google index your internal search result pages. But John Mueller of Google said you shouldn’t even be considering going against Google’s advice here, if you have good category pages, you won’t even need to test this out.
Google: URL Length Is A Very Light Signal For Canonicalization
Earlier we reported that Google does not use URL length as a ranking factor. While that may be true, Google does use the URL length as a “very light” signal for canonicalization, said John Mueller of Google.
Google: Break YMYL & Non-YMYL Content Into Separate Sites
If your website contains both YMYL, your money / your life, and non-YMYL topics of content, you may want to consider separating those out into their own standalone websites. Google’s John Mueller implied that sometimes Google can do that automatically but it is safer to do it on your end so that you don’t have to meet a specific E-A-T, expertise authority trustworthiness, threshold for the non YMYL content on that site.
