Google fixes Google News indexing bug
This bug impacted the the traffic of may news publishers for a 3 week period.
Barry Schwartz a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.
This bug impacted the the traffic of may news publishers for a 3 week period.
Barry Schwartz | Jul 14, 2023 at 5:58 pm ETThe new features include pin and rename conversations, export code to more places, share answers, use images for prompts, listen to answers and adjust responses.
Barry Schwartz | Jul 13, 2023 at 3:01 am ETGoogle Search Console sent out emails to site owners where their INP scores are not meeting the mark.
Barry Schwartz | Jul 12, 2023 at 8:04 am ETThis bug may be impacting publisher traffic from Google News.
Barry Schwartz | Jul 10, 2023 at 4:17 pm ETSome SEOs began to notice a spike in errors and issues being reported by Google Search Console. Google said it is not an issue, but a reporting change.
Barry Schwartz | Jul 10, 2023 at 11:06 am ETGoogle said it will engage with the web and AI communities with public discussions during this process.
Barry Schwartz | Jul 6, 2023 at 3:57 pm ETThe new features can help advertisers save time, make more informed decisions, and improve the performance of Google Ads campaigns.
Barry Schwartz | Jul 5, 2023 at 7:26 am ETOpen AI said they disabled this feature "out of an abundance of caution" after users were able to access content behind some paywalls.
Barry Schwartz | Jul 4, 2023 at 4:00 pm ETWhile Google still has access to the Twitter firehose, Google has still dropped over half of the Twitter URL it indexed.
Barry Schwartz | Jul 3, 2023 at 10:38 am ETThat includes new price match monitors, buying guides and review summaries powered by Bing Chat.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 29, 2023 at 11:00 am ETInstead, Google is recommending an accurate lastmod date in your Sitemap file.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 26, 2023 at 11:20 am ETIn order for you to prepare for when Google replaces FID with INP as a core web vital metric, Google has launched a new report to aid you.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 21, 2023 at 8:11 am ETGoogle said in this case the alleged scammers created 350 fraudulent Business Profiles and over 14,000 fake reviews.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 16, 2023 at 7:29 am ETGoogle has updated the Search Generative Experience to use Business Profile data for its AI-snapshots.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 15, 2023 at 8:21 am ETYou can use this form to submit search spam reports on spam, paid links, malicious behavior, low quality, and other search quality issues.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 14, 2023 at 12:56 pm ETGoogle updated its rich results breadcrumbs report to show more warnings.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 14, 2023 at 8:08 am ETThese new reasons include video outside the viewport, video too small and video too tall.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 12, 2023 at 7:49 am ETThis weekend, Google has begun rolling out the new perspectives feature to searchers.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 11, 2023 at 7:59 am ETBing Chat can also respond with text to speech answers.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 9, 2023 at 2:23 pm ETPlus, Google said they made a number of "quality updates to SGE.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 8, 2023 at 1:37 pm ETPlus, Google re-announced the Google Reader Revenue Manager.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 8, 2023 at 11:00 am ETBard is now better at mathematical tasks, coding questions and string manipulation.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 7, 2023 at 12:26 pm ETGoogle Ads advertisers were greeted with a 500 server error starting around 9:10 a.m. ET. Service was restored just before 11 a.m. ET.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 6, 2023 at 9:56 am ETThe new metrics include country, manual term, mobile device info, minute, new vs returning and session duration.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 6, 2023 at 6:44 am ETBing Chat now supports 30 chat turns in a single conversation.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 2, 2023 at 1:45 pm ETTo enable this, manage your preferences in location settings.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 1, 2023 at 9:11 pm ETThat means that Google won't default .ai domains as being geo-specific to Anguilla.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 1, 2023 at 8:49 am ETGoogle is investigating if this is a bug or a new enforcement of some kind.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 1, 2023 at 8:37 am ETThis new report is designed to help those who have not associated their Search Console Insights property to their Google Analytics property.
Barry Schwartz | May 31, 2023 at 8:03 am ETPlus, Bing Chat rolled out a number of improvements to SwiftKey.
Barry Schwartz | May 30, 2023 at 9:54 am ETSome have been wondering why their mobile-friendly sites are being crawled using the desktop crawler, well, it might be a reporting bug.
Barry Schwartz | May 30, 2023 at 9:44 am ETAt the time of writing this story, the reports were delayed by over 65 hours.
Barry Schwartz | May 30, 2023 at 8:20 am ETSome of you who signed up for the waitlist will get an email notifying you that you have access to try out the new labs search experience.
Barry Schwartz | May 25, 2023 at 11:19 am ETGoogle said this change "will not affect your performance metrics at all."
Barry Schwartz | May 25, 2023 at 8:06 am ETBetween May 4 and May 17, there was a bug with Google Search that caused sites to get less traffic to their video content.
Barry Schwartz | May 24, 2023 at 9:11 am ETGoogle said this will help with newsy queries in specialized topic areas, such as health, politics, or finance.
Barry Schwartz | May 23, 2023 at 12:27 pm ETChatGPT Plus subscribers will have access to Bing Search today and it will expand to more users in the future.
Barry Schwartz | May 23, 2023 at 11:48 am ETGoogle also said if you find issues, you can submit those issues in their forum.
Barry Schwartz | May 22, 2023 at 3:51 pm ETAny site not yet moved over will remain on desktop-indexing going forward.
Barry Schwartz | May 22, 2023 at 8:23 am ETUnauthenticated users, users not signed into Bing, may start to be able to use Bing Chat soon.
Barry Schwartz | May 18, 2023 at 7:48 am ET