Google announced that it is rolling out the option to apply recommendations automatically, that is, if you opt in to this feature. Google said “many of you that reviewing and implementing recommendations can be time consuming,” so Google is going to give you an option to just trust them 100% completely and let Google just apply those recommendations.

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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Another tidbit I wanted to pull out of my larger story on the Google Product Reviews update was that when Google does refreshes or updates to this algorithm, Google may not announce those updates or even confirm the update has been made.

In 2017, Google My Business began adding features to let business owners manage their local listings directly in the web search results. In 2020, Google upgraded that and now in 2021, Google added the ability to edit your business profile like hours, category, products, photos, location and more.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

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.

On the 151th anniversary of the MET, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the largest art museum in the United States, Google posted a GIF as a Doodle on its home page to celebrate the day. The MET was established on April 13, 1870 but the The Fifth Avenue building opened two years later on February 20, 1872, at 681 Fifth Avenue.

Google’s John Mueller reminded us that when it comes to your CSS background images, Google won’t be indexing or ranking those images in image search. John Mueller said on Twitter “last I checked, we don’t use CSS background images for image search.”

The upcoming Google Page Experience Update which is suppose to launch next month is not going to be real time, like some of Google’s other algorithm updates. This is kind of obvious, since we know there is a 28-day delay in gathering the core web vital data.

There are numerous reports of reviews not publishing and going live in the Google local results. So if someone leaves a business a review in Google Maps and Google Local, those reviews are either very much so delayed or just not publishing. Maybe there is some sort of technical bottleneck with the reviews pipeline?

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

Frederic Dubut from Microsoft said Bing “may still crawl parameterized URLs occasionally.” He said that the “most common parameters are taken into account in indexing” but it still may crawl the other parameterized URLs here and there.

Google has made changes to how it calculates the CLS, cumulative layout shift, metric within core web vitals. Specifically maximum session window with 1 second gap, capped at 5 seconds. This was done to make it “more fair for long running pages and single page apps,” Malte Ubl from Google said.