Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …
Day: September 15, 2021
Programming Note: Offline Thursday For Yom Kippur 5782
This is just a programming note that I will be 100% offline starting Wednesday night (September 15th) through Thursday night (September 16th) for Yom Kippur. I am scheduling stories on Yom Kippur, anything posted would have been written prior to …
Google Crawl Rate Setting Takes A Day To Work
Google’s John Mueller said on Reddit that if you want to slow Google from crawling your site (or speed it up), it can take about a day from when you set the crawl rate setting in Google Search Console for …
Google Titles Are Changing In Search But For The Better?
About a month ago, Google made a change to the snippet titles it shows in its search results, then confirmed that change a week after it was launched. The SEO community went a bit nuts about the changes and Google …
Google: We Do Not Differentiate Between Category, Filter, Tag Or Search Pages
Google’s John Mueller said in a video hangout that Google Search does not specifically differentiate and treat differently category pages or filter pages or search pages or tag pages from other pages. John said it is not about the technical …
Google: Ignore Mobile Usability Issue Notices If You Pass Live Test
Google’s John Mueller said that if your page passes the live mobile usability test – that means you can ignore the Search Console notices of “new mobile usability issues detected for site.” So as long as you pass the live …
Google Merchant Center Unique Product Identifier Enforcement
Google announced that beginning on September 15, 2021 Google will enforce correct unique product identifiers (UPIs) for your products uploaded to Google Merchant Center, even for free listings. Google said it is “expanding this enforcement and applying it to products …
Google: Smart Internal Linking Can Help Google Trust Your Site More
I found it super interesting to listen to a dialog between a new German startup and Google’s John Mueller. The conversation leads to John Mueller …