Google’s John Mueller reminds a site owner that getting indexed in search results is not guaranteed. Google Search Advocate John Mueller said, “search is never guaranteed,” in response to a site owner asking why their content isn’t indexed. In the r/TechSEO forum on Reddit, a user is dissatisfied that a […]

Google confirms rollout of a spam-related algorithm update on October 19, 2022. Google confirms an algorithm update targeted at fighting spam is rolling out to search results worldwide and in all languages. Google estimates the October 2022 spam update will take several days to roll out. Exact details about spam […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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’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 […]