Google has made some changes to its sitemap documentation and title links documentation but has yet to document those changes. Here are a list of the changes, some might be considered more than “minor” but since Google did not document them, I assume they are super minor.

PageRank Reference Removals

Google removed the reference to PageRank throughout many of the Search Essential documentation as noted by Marie Haynes:

Sitemap Docs Change

On the Sitemaps documentation, Google wrote:

Previously it read:

So Google added, “and other user-dependent identifiers.” Why? John Mueller from Google said because of the “internet” – meaning, the internet is doing this and Google noticed.

Title Link Doc Changes

Google changed the name of the title link document from “Control your title links in search results” to “Influencing your title links in search results” – that was the big one.

Google also updated the section to be shorter for “Avoid repeated or boilerplate text in title elements” to read:

Google expanded the “same language” section and it now reads:

Those are the changes I noticed to the documentation.

Forum discussion at Twitter.