Google now supports even more categories for more types of hours for your business listing. Google added a number of new hour types for religious institutions and restaurants.…
Category: SE Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 10, 2024
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today……
Google Tests New Search Tools Design
Google Search is testing a new design and user interface for the search tools menu. Instead of it showing below the search bar, it now shows right under the tools button, with a new interface.…
Google Crawler Documention Adds HTTP Caching
Google has updated its crawler help documentation to add a new section for HTTP caching, which explains how Google’s crawlers handle cache control headers. Google also posted a blog post begging us to let Google cache our pages.…
Google: Sometimes Over Optimization Drift Towards SEO Spam
Google’s John Mueller was asked about over-optimization and if that can cause issues for ranking in Google Search. John replied saying, “Sometimes “over optimization” does drift towards “SEO-spam”.”…
Google Search Console Insights Removes Google Analytics Data
Google has dropped Google Analytics data from its Google Search Console Insights tool and reporting. Google posted this notice on social saying, “we’re focusing on data from Search Console, no longer including metrics from Google Analytics.”…
Copilot Beta Now Bing Webmaster Tools For 10,000 Users
In October, Microsoft announced it was testing adding Copilot features to Bing Webmaster Tools. This is not showing Copilot data in the performance reports, but rather using Copilot to ask questions about your data and website in Bing Webmaster Tools. …
Google Tests Trending & Popular With Labels In Search Results
Google continues its testing of labels and tags in the search results, including trending labels, by showing variations of “trending with” and “popular with” labels and tags added to search result snippets.…
Google Search Having Indexing Issues Again
Google Search is once again having indexing issues where new content is not showing in the index for all sites. Google wrote this is about a “delayed indexing in Google Search” that is “affecting a small number of sites.”…
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 9, 2024
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. Post November 2024 Google core update……
Google Adds FAQs For Site Reputation Abuse Policy Including Moving Content
Late Friday afternoon, Google quietly updated its expanded site reputation abuse policy notice with a section of 9 FAQs. This includes what happens if you try to move the content, redirect the URLs and links, and much more.…
Google Search Console Links Report With Large Change In Links?
Google Search Console may have made a big update to its link counts. I am not sure how widespread this is, and I really don’t not track the link count often. But I have reported on link counts changing here …
Watch Google CEO Sundar Pichai Interview Say Search To Profoundly Change In 2025
Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai was interviewed by New York Times’s Andrew Ross Sorkin. In this interview they spoke about Google’s approach to AI, Sundar’s outlook for the technology, and what to expect for Google’s AI models and Search in the …
Google Search Console Legacy Tools & Reports Has Been Removed
Google Search Console has dropped a whole section on its side bar navigation. The Legacy tools and reports section has been removed from the side bar. It is unclear exactly when it was removed but it was likely removed when …
Google Showing Fewer AI Overviews In Search?
Google may have dialed back how often they show AI Overviews in Google Search, especially in some verticals like health and finance (YMYL). Ziptie, a toolset that tracks Google AI Overviews, shows that overall, Google is showing 4 percentage points …
Google Search Ranking Volatility Continues Post Core Update
The Google November 2024 core update finished on December 5th, but we have continued to see search ranking volatility after the update was finished. That ranking volatility seemed to spike more over the weekend. Did you notice any big ranking …
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 6, 2024
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. The Google November 2024 core update is finally done rolling out after almost …