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Google Search Console Coverage Report Delayed Again
The coverage report within Google Search Console is delayed again. It is currently now delayed by 10-days, as opposed to the normal two-day delay in reporting. Here is a screen shot showing the date in the coverage report stopping on October 19, 2020 – ten days ago: It was also recently backed up in early September, prior to all those indexing bugs. It is not […]
Google Tests Always Open Search Tools Options
Google Search has a “tools” feature that when you do a search and you want to filter the search results by more options, like time or type of result, you can just click on “tools” to show the filter options. Well, Google is testing removing the requirement to click on the “tools” to toggle on these options. Instead, Google is testing showing the filters immediately […]
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 29, 2020
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. Search Engine Roundtable Stories: Google: E-Commerce Sites Should Use Unavailable Request Indexing Tool Prior To Black FridayOn Monday, Google lists a bunch of SEO tips for e-commerce sites to get ready for the upcoming Black Friday sales day. […]
Google My Business Progress Status Of Reinstatement Request
Ben Fisher spotted that Google is now testing in Google My Business a status indicator of where your reinstatement request is. So if contact Google My Business for something, if you go back to the form, it might show the status of that request. Ben said Google added a contact flow and said “the implications of this could be amazing for those who are waiting […]
Will Apple Search Take Market Share Away From Google?
Since 2014 we have seen signs that Apple is testing the waters of building its own web crawler and search engine. Yes, this has been going on for more than six years. But now, Apple might be launching something in search, beyond Siri on iOS and Spotlight on MacOS, to the public. Everyone is buzzing about the Financial Times story named Apple develops alternative to […]
Google: E-Commerce Sites Should Use Unavailable Request Indexing Tool Prior To Black Friday
On Monday, Google lists a bunch of SEO tips for e-commerce sites to get ready for the upcoming Black Friday sales day. One of those tips is to use the request indexing tool, but that tool was temporarily suspended and we do not know when it will come back. One of the six tips was “Get your page recrawled. After you’ve tested your structured data […]
Do SEOs Trust SEO Sources – Good Polls
Cyrus Shepard posted a series of excellent pools on Twitter with a nice number of responses. The polls asked various questions around if you trust various sources of information on SEO. (1) Most SEO information you’re exposed to daily (social media, blogs, Google, private groups) is accurate and trustworthy: 1) Most SEO information you’re exposed to daily (social media, blogs, Google, private groups) is accurate […]
Microsoft Bing Team Working Harder & Longer While Working At Home
So it looks like the employees at Microsoft are going to be working from home through July 2021, like Google and many other companies. So I asked if that impacted the Microsoft Bing team and Frederic Dubut of Microsoft said if anything, he and his team are working harder and longer hours. Frederic first posted about his experience working from home on Twitter: Over that […]
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 28, 2020
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. Search Engine Roundtable Stories: Microsoft Bing Team Working Harder & Longer While Working At HomeSo it looks like the employees at Microsoft are going to be working from home through July 2021, like Google and many other companies. […]
Google Tests Green Bubble Header Display In Search
You know when Google shows you a colored header background in search for some queries? Well, Google is now testing a different interface for that where the header is a white background but instead Google uses buttons in bubble format that are colored. Shalom Goodman spotted this and posted a screen shot on Twitter of this in action. Here is that screen shot: Now, this […]