John Mueller commented in his new post about reporting in Google Search Console that sites can have different crawl rates on a per-URL basis. In other words, don’t expect that just because Google crawls your home page and few more important pages daily that Googlebot is hitting each individual page on the site daily too. […]
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Google Adds Index Status to Data Anomalies With Apps Indexing Change
Google has been busy with their Data Anomalies page in Google Search Console. This time they have added a new “Index Status / Indexed Page” section, with a new entry about apps dated earlier this month. Here is the new section and the issue. The issue is for mobile apps only. But while they do […]
Google Sending Newly Renamed Major Spam Warning Messages
Marie Haynes spotted a new change on a recent alert from Google Search Console – instead of the usual Pure Spam related messages, it was renamed as Major Spam Warning. Here is how it looks: This change seems to be a name change only, and not anything different about what the manual action is specifically […]
Google Allows Only 10 Submit URLs & Direct-Links Crawls Per Month
Do you use Google’s Fetch as Googlebot in Google Search Console, then submit it to the index? Google has changed the limits on submissions via the “submit this URL and it’s direct-linked pages”. But most significantly, this is applying to all sites on a Google Search Console account, so this change isn’t on a per […]
Google Launches AMP Demo – Accelerated Mobile Pages
If you have been working to get your pages ready for AMP – Accelerated Mobile Pages, but are unsure how your content will actually appear in live AMP results, you will love this new testing tool. Google has launched a new AMO demo tool that allows you to view the search results with AMP specific […]
Google Adds Crawl Status Reports to Data Anomalies Page
Google has renamed the former “Crawl Error Report” to “Crawl Errors/Crawl Status Report” on their Data Anomalies page. Google uses this page to alert users to updates, changes or issues with various Search Console features and reports. Here is how it appears now: Nothing has been added to the newly renamed section. So it could […]
Google Has No Plans for a “SEO Certified Professional Program”
Many people have wanted to see some kind of certified SEO program on the search side of things, similar to the AdWords certification that requires AdWords experts to pass an exam on the pay per click platform. During yesterday’s Hangout with Eric Enge and Mark Traphagen, he was asked if we would ever see a […]
Google Removes the Link: Operator from Support Pages
It seems as though the very broken link: operator in the Google search results is now missing in action. Doing link: queries now do not return any results. And Google has also removed it from their support page which lists all of Google’s search operators. Here is the Google support page from January 16th which […]
AMP to Support Both Paywalls & Subscriptions
Depending on which side of this business model you fall on, you will be either really happy – or really not – that AMP is supporting both paywalls and subscriptions. “AMP’s paywall implementation is crucial for publishers of quality contents. Google’s AMP team has come up with a system able to address most of the […]
WordPress Recipe Plugins Causing Rich Snippet Manual Actions
If you run a recipe website, or have recipes on your website, and you are using one of the popular recipe plugins for WordPress that automatically markup the text for recipe rich snippets, you might want to check in Google Search Console for manual actions related to rich snippet spam. Multiple plugins have been triggering […]