Google has overhauled its video SEO documentation to vastly clarify the video indexing criteria and technical requirements. Plus, Google added a new watch page section to the document and expanded the examples in the document.
Google Search is testing new designs for the default favicons it shows in the search results. This is when Google is not showing the site’s favicon or the site does not have a favicon, Google will show this default favicon.
A negative SEO question came up in the last Google SEO office hours on the topic of sending “bad actor” fake traffic to a site, to make the destination site look more questionable in Google’s eyes. Martin Splitt from Google said that sending such traffic to a site would not negatively impact the destination site.
Google is a bit delayed with its appeal process for Google Business Profiles. Appeals are now taking seven days or longer, some are saying about 15 days, which is much longer than normal.
Google has updated its title links search developer documentation to add that Google Search may use your og:title meta tag title for your title link in the Google Search results. The OG title is normally used by social sharing sites for the title of your posts, but Google may also use it for the title of your search result snippets in Google.
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