Google begins rolling out the September 2022 product review algorithm update. Google confirms the September 2022 product review update, the fifth in a series of updates targeting low-quality reviews, is now rolling out. The update begins rolling out today, September 20, and will take up to a week to roll out. Google made the announcement […]

Google announced a Core Algorithm Update on September 12, 2022. The official Google list of announced updates stated that it will take up to two weeks to finish rolling out. “Released the September 2022 core update. The rollout could take 2 weeks to complete.” The initial response from the search community was generally positive although some affiliate marketing […]

Three changes to Article structured data documentation relaxes Top Stories eligibility. Google updated its Article structured data guidelines to reflect that they dropped the AMP requirement and changed the image guidelines for Top Stories eligibility. Three changes to the guidelines make it clear that eligibility for the top stories section that can dominate the top […]

Google begins rolling out the July 2022 product review algorithm update. Google confirms the July 2022 product review update, the fourth in a series of updates targeting low-quality reviews, is now rolling out. The update begins rolling out today, July 27 and concludes within two to three weeks. Google made the announcement on Twitter while […]

Google updated the Search Central guidelines for controlling how it displays title tags in search. The update didn’t change the guidance itself, but it did make it substantially more straightforward and removed multiple ambiguities in the wording that made it difficult to understand. Google Changes Title Tags Title tags are meta elements whose purpose is […]

Google’s web crawler only uses first 15MB of a page’s HTML to determine rankings, according to help documentation update. An update to Googlebot’s help document contains confirmation that it will crawl the first 15 MB of a webpage and anything after this cutoff will not be included in rankings calculations. Google specifies in the help […]

Google’s John Mueller explains how to use FAQ structured data in everyday content that is not formatted as an FAQ Google’s John Mueller answered a question about FAQ structured data that significantly expanded the kinds of content that FAQ structured data can be applied to, which now includes content that isn’t even in the FAQ […]

Google shares six ways to make your website load images faster and more efficiently. In a new video from Google, Developer Advocate Alan Kent shares six tips for optimizing images for ecommerce websites. While the video is specifically aimed at ecommerce sites, the advice is applicable to any website that serves a large number of […]