It’s all Google this week: More information regarding Google’s recent reporting bug, some exciting additions to Google’s search results page along with new structured data, updates to GoogleBot, and more!
How Low Quality Pages Affect Your Overall Site Rankings
A little run-down on how low quality pages affect your site, and the dynamic of mixed quality across your site can affect rankings overall.
Podcasts Now Showing In Google Search Results
We heard a few months ago that there were plans to bring podcasts straight to the Google search results, and now it’s here! Podcast results also let you listen to the audio straight from the search results page.
FAQ And How-To Structured Data Now Available In Google Search
Google is now supporting FAQ and how-to style structured data so that your content of such types can be displayed in search results in their own FAQ/how-to style. Search console can also show you any errors in these new structured data types.
Some More Details On Google’s Evergreen GoogleBot
GoogleBot got a whole collection of new features, though there are still some major ones we’re waiting for and hoping to see soon.
Google Assistant Now 10 Times Faster
Among other updates, Google Assistant changed the speech processing from the cloud onto your own phone, speeding things up significantly.
Search Console Speed Report Out In Beta
This new report section within Search Console will tell you a lot about your site’s speed, with various and specific aspects and examples you can look to for each of your pages and across your site.
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