YouTube’s Algorithm: What You Need To Know In 2023 via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Ex-Googler offers opinion that uptick in featured snippets is because Google is “concerned about some of the low-quality experiences out on the web” The post Ex-Googler On Featured Snippets: Google is More Hesitant To Send Users Out Into The Web appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

To start things off, I quickly covered the monthly Google webmaster report. Google also had some big unconfirmed update on or around October 28th. Google confirmed a search bug with top stories…

Google’s John Mueller posted one of those PSA tweets this morning asking hosting companies that trigger robot detection interstitials to not use a 200 status code. John also said not to place a noindex on that page. If you do these things the pages served with these can be dropped out of the Google index and search results.