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Google’s John Mueller was asked if it is helps after doing a big URL migration to keep the old XML Sitemap file up for a bit. John said “the effect would be minimal” by using this strategy.

Google Analytics now has tailored recommendations to help users become aware of new features by reviewing your property’s history, settings, and trends across Analytics. The recommendations appear in the Insights and Recommendations section of the homepage, as well as throughout Analytics wherever they’re relevant. Learn more. You can read more about Analytics recommendations in their help documentation. Why we care. Advertisers should check their Google Analytics accounts regularly for outages, updates, and, now, recommendations. As always, we suggest never enabling auto-apply recommendations and always testing new […]

So while Google Search is currently having massive indexing issues, the Google Ads advertiser console is having issues loading ad spend and other data. Google confirmed the issue saying “affected users are able to access Google Ads, but may not have access to the most recent data.”