Over the last day or so, Google began issuing manual actions for “social engineering content detected.” These new warnings have a pretty confusing name that are causing people to question what exactly “social engineered content” is. Here is the new warning: It seems to be related to Google’s new change to the Safe Browsing program. […]
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Personalization & Universal Search Can Skew Search Analytics in Google Search Console
If you have looked in your Search Analytics in Google’s Search Console and see a really high position for a keyword or keyword phrase that doesn’t match up with actual traffic, there are two reasons why – either personalization or universal search results are skewing those positioning numbers. The question was brought up in the […]
Switching Domains? Helps to Use Site Move Tool in Search Console
Whenever a site is switching domain names for whatever reason, there is always the worry about the loss of rankings, PageRank values from links and whether it will see the success the previous domain had once the redirects have been processed and the new site has been fully crawled. Gary Illyes from Google was asked […]
Check Google Search Console for New Structured Data Errors
Google has made some changed to how they are processing structured data markup, meaning you could have some new structured data errors pop up in your Structured Data section in Google Search Console. John Mueller made the comment on Google+ that along with the new support for JSON-LD in products and snippets, they have “cleaned […]
Google Search Console Alerts for Outdated WordPress & Joomla Sites
Google Search Console sent out another round of alerts to both WordPress users and Joomla users where they discovered that the site is running an older version of the CMS. Here is what the alert looks like. It gives sample URLs which is helpful if you have multiple installations of a CMS on a single […]
Google Search Console Launches AMP Error Reporting
Google has announced a new AMP error reporting feature in Google Search Console to help webmasters as they implement AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) across their websites prior to the official launch and support in just weeks . The AMP error report gives an overview of the overall situation on your site, and then lets you […]
Google Redesigns Google Search Console for Webmasters
If you go to login to Google Search Console, you will discover that the website has a brand new redesign and look, which makes it much easier to find the current information as well as some new pages, including a calendar that lists all Google webmaster related events. Google announced it on the Webmaster Central […]
Google Updates App-Indexing Crawl Errors in Search Console
We learned in December that Google was updating their app-indexing crawl errors within Search Console, along with the app indexing docs. Google has now announced exactly what the changes are. While two of the Android app indexing crawl errors shown Google Search Console remain the same (Package not found and URI unsupported) there is a […]
Using AMP? Google Search Console Looking for Beta Testers
Are you using AMP or are planning to start? John Mueller posted that he is looking for beta testers for AMP features in Google Search Console. John Mueller posted on both Twitter and Google+ asking for testers of the new features. Interested in trying out AMP features in Search Console? If your game this year […]
Advantages to Using Multiple Sitemaps in Google Search Console
Depending on the size of your site, you have probably been presented with whether you should split up sitemaps into sections – such as by category or page type – or leave it as one big one. In today’s hangout, John Mueller was asked if there are any advantages to splitting up sitemaps, and he […]