This week I published the monthly Google webmaster report summarizing the past month of changes in search with Google. Google may have done a search ranking algorithm update yesterday. Google Search Console announced the performance analytics report now are consolidating data to the canonical - you must check it out. Google Search Console has an issue with reporting on Google My Business UTMs. Bing is strong recommending publishers use the submit URL tool because they do want to slow crawling in the future. Yoast integrated with Bing and they said Google to submit content to their index live. Gary Illyes said Google’s RankBrain is a PR sexy machine learning bit. He also said that CTR and dwell time are not used by Google for ranking, again. Google denied also using signals around negative people or organizations hurting web sites they are associated with. Google updated their content guidelines for QA page markup. Google has a new user agent named google-speakr. Google is showing more featured snippets for medical queries. Google is testing event rich snippets on desktop and refinement bubbles for image search boxes. Google Maps added check in and check out times from Google My Business for hotels. Moz launched a new score for their domain authority, DA, and I polled you asking if this is helpful or hurtful. Bing is looking to hire a PM for their core search rankings. That was this past week in search at the Search Engine Roundtable.
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Search Topics of Discussion:
- February 2019 Google Webmaster Report
- Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Happening Today?
- Google Search Console Performance Report Now Shows Consolidation Data
- Google Search Console Metric Drops For Google My Business UTM Usage
- Bing Strongly Recommends Publishers Use The Submit URL Tool
- Yoast To Add Live Indexing With Bing & Google
- Google Gary Illyes: RankBrain Is PR-Sexy Machine Learning
- Google: CTR, Dwell Time & Other UX Signals Are Made Up Myths
- Google Denies Negative People Or Organizational Associations Can Downgrade Rankings
- Google Updates Content Guidelines For QA Pages
- A New Google Useragent Named google-speakr
- Google Shows 2.5X More Medical Featured Snippets In Desktop Results
- Google Tests Event Rich Snippets On Desktop
- Google Tests Image Carousel With Refinement Bubbles
- Google Maps Adds Hotel Check-In & Check-Out Times
- Poll: Is Moz Domain Authority Helpful Or Hurtful To SEOs?
- Bing Looking To Hire Project Manager To Work On Search Rankings
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