Google has noted that it has updated the already updated Crawl Stats report to handle “additional types of crawls.” Google wrote “the crawl stats report has increased its reporting coverage for additional types of crawls.”
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that it is best to implement your structured data on the page itself and not use Google Tag Manager to implement your structured data.
Google’s John Mueller said that there is no specific timeframe for when an out of stock product page on your e-commerce site will end up resulting in a soft 404 in Google Search. A soft 404 is when Google thinks a page should return a 404 server status code but technically is not.
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
They say in business, one way to ensure your long-term failure, is to use the line “we’ve always done it this way.” Maybe the same is true for SEO? Esben Rasmussen, an SEO, posted on Twitter “I am just in an uphill struggle with a global IT department of a big company “Our old SEO told us we could do it this way, so we are not changing this.”
Advertisers have until July 1 to run Gmail Ads. After that, they will become read-only, and Discovery campaigns will be the only option
To be clear, none of this is exactly new, but John Mueller of Google took the time to explain how mobile-first indexing works with mobile-first indexing.
Although it’s a long way from being a Google competitor, DuckDuckGo’s business model may serve as a playbook for new search engines. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article
Did your GMB listing get suspended?
We have seen movie results in Google for a long time, but now the movie carousel is testing showing the Motion Picture Association film rating system labels on those movie image covers. Here is a screen shot of this in action from Mordy Oberstein as posted on Twitter.