Google said it again – structured data does not help your site rank any better. John Mueller of Google said this on Bluesky, “Structured data won’t make your site rank better.” He said, all it is “used for displaying the search features listed in” this search gallery document.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 18, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
Google Expands Health Overviews & Adds What People Suggest In Search
Google said it is expanding its AI Overviews and Knowledge Panels to offer more medical and health related answers. Plus, those are being expanded in more counties and languages. Also, Google launched a new “What People Suggest” search feature that shows you what other people are saying on the web about those topics.
Third-Party Google Rank Tracking Struggling Now
Google seems to be successfully blocking enough of the attempts of scrapers from trying to scrape data from its search results page over the past few weeks than it has in a long time. We reported this a few weeks ago, and I am surprised to see that many tools still struggle with Google Search reporting.
