The Google Search Console performance reports are currently significantly delayed, mine is now showing it is over 65 hours delayed. Typically, these reports are updated within 4 hours, so this is a si...
About a week ago, Google did its last batch of moving sites to mobile-first indexing and some mobile-friendly sites were still noticing their sites were being reported as being crawled using desktop i...
On Monday, Ars Technica hosted our Ars Frontiers virtual conference. In our fifth panel, we covered "The Lightning Onset of AI--What Suddenly Changed?" The panel featured a conversation with Paige Bai...
Google has released a new crawler, a new Googlebot, named Google-InspectionTool. This new Google crawler will be how Google identifies crawling activity for the crawler used by Google Search's testing...
Google Search Console will now show publishers who are part of the Reader Revenue Manager information around their "subscribed content." Google launched a new rich results status report to show traffi...
Google is warning against using 404 and other 4xx client server status errors, such as 403s, for the purpose of trying to set a crawl rate limit for Googlebot. "Please don't do that," Gary Illyes fro...
If you see "Discovered - currently not indexed" in Google Search Console, it means Google is aware of the URL, but hasn't crawled and indexed it yet. It doesn't necessarily mean the page will never be...
Further Reading
Hundreds of legacy PS4 games are still available for download as part of the higher-end PlayStation Plus "Extra" and "Premium" tiers (starting at $14.99/month or $99...
Google's video indexing report within Google Search Console added some new improvements, including video impressions overlay and sitemap filter. Google announced this was done to "help you understand ...
Following in the footsteps of Tile, Apple, and Samsung, it sounds like Google will be the latest Big-Tech company to make a Bluetooth tracker. Android researcher Kuba Wojciechowski has spo...
Google Search Console is experimenting with a new feature named "content ideas." Content ideas give the content creator, publisher, SEO, webmaster, etc., some tips and advice on what new topics they c...
Google is rolling out a new Shopping tab within Google Search Console that contains more information about your product snippets, merchant listings and shopping tab listings in Google Search.
Nov 2022
In 4 smarter ways to measure SEO effectiveness, I analyzed four fairly boilerplate SEO metrics (traffic, rankings, conversions, links) and detailed ways to apply an additional layer of rigor to each t...
The search performance report in Google Search Console had a data logging issue on September 21, 2022. This caused some data to not be presented in the search performance report on that date, potentia...
Google is expanding the eligibility for enhanced product experiences in Google Search to those who use Product structured data. Google also has added new Search Console reports to measure the performa...
Google said there was a bug with its coverage report in Search Console where Google reported pages as being indexed, when in fact, they were not indexed by Google Search. Google said this "affected ma...
Google has reenabled the validate fix feature in Google Search Console while launching the new "more simplified" classifications for the coverage reports. This was expected, earlier this month Google...
Google announced this morning that there is a new way to verify your site and property in Google Search Console. You can now use DNS CNAME verification in Google Search Console, the search company ann...