Google announced that all merchants will be migrated (or as Google put it “upgrading”) from the old Google Merchant Center to Google Merchant Center Next by September (next month). We knew this was coming, we covered the upgrade emails back in July but here is the official announcement.
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Google Migrating All To Merchant Center Next By Next Month
There are many sad stories around sites getting hit by Google algorithm updates, such as core updates and of course the September 2023 helpful content update.
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Hardbacon Announced Closure Day Before August Core Update, Then Sees Traffic Surge
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Google has updated the local pack, the local results box, in the Google Search results. Now when you click on the results in the local pack, the map slides to the left, behind the local pack listings.
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Google Search Local Pack UX Update
Martin Splitt from Google said on the latest SEO office hours that having lots of nofollow or noindex tags or attributes on your site does not signal to Google that you have quality issues with your site or many low quality pages.
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Google: Many Noindex & Nofollows Do Not Signal Site Quality Issues
Aug 24
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Microsoft now has these refinement cards or boxes directly in the Bing Image Search results interface.
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Bing Images Search Refinement Cards
Google has greatly expanded and clarified its documentation around how Search Appearances work within the Google Search Console reports. Google wrote on X, “We improved our documentation on Search Appearances supported in Search Console.” Daniel Waisberg from Google said, “I’ve been asked about this 1000 times, hope you’re all happy now.”
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Google Search Console Search Appearances Documentation Updated
There are a ton of complaints and a lot of concern around Google Analytics missing data in the normal overview report for yesterday and today. I see it also, I am seeing no data from this site and others in my GA4 reports for yesterday or today – although the real time reports work.
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Google Analytics Missing Data From Yesterday/Data
Aug 24
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A critical privilege escalation vulnerability in a WordPress cache plugin puts over 5 million sites at risk The post WordPress Cache Plugin Vulnerability Affects +5 Million Websites appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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WordPress Cache Plugin Vulnerability Affects +5 Million Websites via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Looking to get a little more engagement and have more impact on Instagram? A carousel may be exactly what you need. Here’s how.
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How To Create Engaging Instagram Carousels via @sejournal, @annabellenyst
15% of searches in Google every day are new, how can you get ahead of the curve?
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