Google has confirmed it has fixed a bug that affected some search features, such as the top stories section. The bug was “noticeable” around October 18th and 19th, and was fixed around October 28th. Google said the bug fix can take about a week top fully rollout
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Google fixed a bug with some search features that may impact your site’s visibility
Google has just added hour and date dimensions for Google Analytics 4. A dimension is an attribute of your data. It
The world’s largest shopping season – Black Friday through Christmas – is here. Will the rising cost of living, drop in customer confidence, and frequent Google algorithm changes spell doom for SEO specialists? In this article, we will go over some SEO tips that will help you navigate this holiday season and plan for the next. 1
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5 SEO best practices for Black Friday and the holiday season
Google is already testing the new site name and favicon design change they launched just a couple of weeks ago on the desktop results. This brings the favicon and site name to the desktop search results as Google did for the mobile search results.
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Google Tests New Site Name & Favicon On Desktop Results
Google Search, for some videos, allows you to click an expand icon on some videos it shows you in the search results. That expand button will then overlay a larger playable video with more details.
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Google Search Lets You Expand Video On Top Of Search Results
Google has announced some changes to the Google Ads policies for government documents and official services. Google said “in March 2023, the Google Ads Government documents and official services policy will be updated to allow government authorized providers to promote government documents and services.”
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Google Ads Changes Policies For Government Documents & Official Services
Google’s John Mueller confirmed on Twitter that having a Sitemap file that lists pages that are duplicative to others, won’t necessarily cause ranking issues for your site. It might confuse Google when it comes to crawling but it should not impact rankings, John said.
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Google: Having Duplicate Content URLs In Sitemap File Won’t Likely Cause Ranking Issues
Google has posted a short note in the Search Consoles data anomalies that says there was a bug in Google Search that affected some search features, including but not limited to the Top Stories search feature. Google said this started to be noticeable around October 18th and 19th and a fix was pushed out on October 28th that will take a week to fully rollout.
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Google Search Features Bug Impacted Top Stories & Other Features On October 18th & 19th
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John Mueller Holding A Google Webmasterplatz Sign
Personally, I change outdated, harmful or lengthy web addresses (a.k.a., URLs) when updating existing content quite often. Why? Let me explain.
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Changing URLs for SEO reasons: When is it OK?