Google releases FAQ clarifying site reputation abuse policy, confirming rules for third-party content and providing recovery guidance for publishers.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Google streamlines Search Console Insights by removing Google Analytics data, focusing solely on Search Console metrics for simplicity. The post Google Search Console Update: No More Analytics Data appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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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’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 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.”

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. Well, now it is officially in beta and Microsoft said 10,000 users now have access to it.

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 is testing a new design and user interface for the search tools menu.