It was a busy week in search, I hope you like the small tweaks I am making to these news recap videos, if you do, subscribe, smash that like button and hit that bell. 🙂 First up, Google release another Google core update, this one was named the September 2019 core update. Google Search Console has fresher performance report that is updated within a day or so. Google is giving webmaster more snippet controls, including max length for text and videos and the size of your images. Google updated GoogleBot to Chrome 77. Google sent breadcrumb warnings for schema issues but some of those warnings may not be correct because of a bug. Google suggests it may ignore nofollow links if that site blanket nofollows all their links. Google review rich results keeps dropping after the new rules were released. Google crawl rate setting may take a day to kick in. Google does not count hot linked images as links. Google said when you move your site to a new server, it will slow crawl until it figures out the new servers capacity. Google has transaction for knowledge panels now. Google had issues indexing Blogger sites. Google redesigned the Google Ads call only ads. Google Ads is sunsetting the average position metric this Monday. Google now lets restaurants opt out of online ordering. Google’s John Mueller is doing Google search news videos now, and they rock. There is this Google spy in our comments, I don’t think he is legit. Google is celebrating its 21st birthday today. Don’t miss the Will Reynolds vlog. That was this past week at the Search Engine Roundtable.
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Search Topics of Discussion:
Alert: Google To Release September 2019 Core Update Later Today
Google September 2019 Core Update Is Live But Seems Slow To Roll Out
Google September 2019 Core Update Impact Now Being Noticed
Google Search Console Performance Report Data Now Less Than A Day Old
Google Delivers On Webmasters Request To Control Search Result Snippets
Evergreen GoogleBot Now On Chrome 77
Google Sends Mass Fix Breadcrumbs Markup Warnings
Google Search Console Breadcrumb Report Had Errors
Google May Ignore Nofollow Link From Publishers That Default It
Google: Embedded & Hotlinked Images Do Not Count As Links
Review Rich Results Keep Getting Removed From Google’s Search Results
Google: The Crawl Rate Setting Takes A Day To Kick In
Google: Only Thing That Changes With Server Migrations Is GoogleBot’s Crawl Rate
Google Knowledge Panels With Translation Feature
Blogger Having Google Indexing Issues?
Redesigned Google Call Only Ads Layout
Reminder: Google Ads Sunsetting Average Position September 30th
Google Lets Businesses Opt Out Of Online Orders
Google’s John Mueller Google Search News Videos
IMO: Bill Lambert Is Not A Googler Or Google Spy
Google 21st Birthday On September 27th – Here Is The Doodle
Vlog #17: Wil Reynolds On Google Stealing Clicks Through Google Ads & More
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