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Google updated their review snippet documentation to add three more reasons why a site may become eligible for a manual action. Authentic human insights are an important quality of the kind of content that Google wants to rank, arguably even more so when it comes to review content. Three New Prohibitions On Review Content Google’s […]
Charging an AI bot to crawl your website is a visibility decision, not a revenue decision. Every crawler you put behind a paywall is a choice about which agents still get to read, cite, and recommend you, and most website owners are about to make that choice without noticing it has become theirs to make. […]
Google’s John Mueller answered a question about robots.txt and explained an easy-to-miss mistake that can impact your SEO and website indexing goals. The specific issue was related to search box spam getting indexed by Google, but this mistake can happen to anyone in general under any context. Website Search Box Spam The person who asked […]
A 3.3-star car wash just won the AI answer. When Annie Jackson, Director of Revenue Operations and Growth at GatherUp, asked Google for a no-touch car wash that fits an SUV in Norfolk, VA, Google returned a 3.3-star business and answered the clearance and hours questions above the star rating itself. Query match outranked rating. […]
Welcome to the week’s Pulse: updates affect the legal footing of the SERP tools you rely on, what it’s worth to keep your content in Google’s index, and where the revenue behind Search is heading. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Search Revenue Grows 17%; Pichai Points To Gemini 4 Alphabet reported Q2 […]
In my previous Search Engine Journal article, I introduced the concept of Brand Sovereignty: the idea that there should be no better source of truth about your business and products than you. Responses from readers, both directly and on LinkedIn, confirmed something I had suspected for some time. Most organizations understand why Brand Sovereignty matters, but […]
Google’s John Mueller and Martin Splitt discussed how site owners and SEOs approach Search Console (GSC) as the place to find errors to fix and that the better way to use it is to think of it as a place to identify patterns, many of which are normal. Interpreting Search Console Messages Martin Splitt called […]
I have had a number of site owners reach out to ask for help with indexing issues lately. In most cases, I am finding that Google has classified its pages as “crawled-not currently indexed” in the page indexing report in Google Search Console. Image Credit: Marie Haynes In almost every case, I’ve examined these pages […]
The “are you a bot” check used to block bad traffic can sometimes cause pages to fall out of Google. On the latest episode of Search Off the Record, Google’s John Mueller explained why this happens, noting that it might cause Google to consider your page a duplicate of another site’s page. The Problem When […]
Search Console has a button called Validate Fix that tells Google you have fixed an indexing issue. On the latest episode of Search Off the Record, Google’s John Mueller explained what clicking it does, and when it’s best used. What ‘Validate Fix’ Does When you click into any issue in Search Console, “Validate Fix” is […]