{"id":9628,"date":"2023-05-24T13:54:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T13:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/24\/google-search-bug-caused-a-drop-in-video-traffic\/"},"modified":"2023-05-24T13:54:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T13:54:28","slug":"google-search-bug-caused-a-drop-in-video-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/24\/google-search-bug-caused-a-drop-in-video-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Search bug caused a drop in video traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has confirmed a bug in Google Search that resulted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/google-search-console-reporting-glitch-with-video-performance-35440.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drop in traffic to video content<\/a> between the dates of May 4 through May 17, 2023.  This was not just a Google Search Console reporting bug, but a bug with Google Search.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Google wrote. <\/strong>Google <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/6211453?hl=en#zippy=%2Cperformance-reports-search-results-discover-google-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted,<\/a> \u201cA bug caused a drop in video traffic from May 4 to May 17, and has since been resolved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I asked John Mueller of Google if this was just a reporting glitch, and he said no, it was beyond reporting. \u201cIt was not just reporting,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@johnmu\/110423743067984804\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told me<\/a> on Mastodon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Search Console reports. <\/strong>If you go to Google Search Console, click on the search performance report, and filter it by \u201cvideo\u201d content, you will see an annotation added to the chart on May 4:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why we care. <\/strong>If you noticed a drop in traffic between May 4 through May 17 and you publish a lot of video content, it may be related to this bug.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the reporting was not the issue and the reports should be accurate.  There was a bug with Google Search that resulted in less videos showing up in the search results.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/google-search-bug-caused-a-drop-in-video-traffic-427527\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Search bug caused a drop in video traffic<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Search Engine Land<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has confirmed a bug in Google Search that resulted in a drop in traffic to video content between the dates of May 4 through May 17, 2023. This was not just a Google Search Console reporting bug, but a bug with Google Search. What Google wrote. Google posted, \u201cA bug caused a drop in video traffic from May 4 to May 17, and has since been resolved.\u201d I asked John Mueller of Google if this was just a reporting glitch, and he said no, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-seo-blogs"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/author\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}