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… …
Day: August 31, 2021
Google Search Console Performance Report Data Lost Completely
Last week, we reported that the performance report in Google Search Console for the dates of August 23rd and 24th had missing data. We were hoping Google would be able to retrieve and backfill the data, but it seems the …
Google: Don’t Blindly Replace Your HTML Title Tags With Google’s Titles
So now there are some SEOs asking if it makes sense for you to replace your HTML title tag with the title Google selected to show in the Google search results. John Mueller from Google said no, don’t just do …
Google Internal Tool To Check Site Quality
Google’s John Mueller said a couple of weeks ago that he has internal tools to look at sites or pages and see if a site is low quality. He said this in the August 20th video hangout. …
Google Tests Expandable Search Snippet Carousels
For the past couple of weeks, people have been showing me a feature in Google search that shows expandable snippets in a carousel format. Kind of like expandable sitelinks of some sorts. I thought I saw this before, but it …
Google: Content Behind Paywalls Is Not Automatically Thin Content
Google’s John Mueller said that just because some content might be behind a paywall, it doesn’t mean Google sees that content as thin content. Google allows content paywalls and will show them as much as it shows content not behind …