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Beginning early this morning, there have been numerous reports of images not loading in Google’s Top stories carousel (as seen below). The issue seems to affect search results globally and Google has confirmed that it’s a bug. The Top stories carousel, where featured images are not currently loading. Some have also taken screenshots in which

Google’s reporting tool for indexing bugs is now available to all signed-in Search Console users in the U.S., the company announced on Monday. The tool, which was first announced as a pilot program back in April, can be accessed at the bottom of the URL inspection help document and indexing coverage report document. The button

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Content has been king for a while now, but just because you wrote something doesn’t mean it’ll drive qualified traffic to your site. In fact, it doesn’t even guarantee that your content will show up in search results: 90% of content on the web gets no traffic from Google, according to 2020 data from Tim

Google has officially replaced its structured data testing tool with a new navigational landing page to direct you to either Google’s rich results test tool or the Schema.org schema markup validator tool. You can see the new landing page over here. Here is a screenshot: The Schema.org tool. In May 2021, Schema.org published its own

Google updated the article structured data help document to add new author properties to the list of recommended properties you can use in Google Search. The company said it added a new recommended author.url property to the article structured data documentation. What is author.url. The author.url property is a new recommended property you can add

Developing a new organizational structure when merging two or more businesses is a complicated affair, but if your new business is going to rely on its website to drive sales, leads or audience engagement, then defining a website structure that preserves and builds upon the performance of any existing websites that the merging parties own

Bing has introduced “Make Every feature Binary” (MEB), a large-scale sparse model that complements its production Transformer models to improve search relevance, the company announced Wednesday. This new technology, which is now running on 100% of Bing searches in all regions and languages, has resulted in a nearly 2% increase in clickthrough rate for the

Google is removing the safe browsing signal from the Google page experience update, the company announced. Google said “we recognize that these issues aren’t always within the control of site owners, which is why we’re clarifying that Safe Browsing isn’t used as a ranking signal and won’t feature in the Page Experience report.” As a

Google has added several new technical and content quality guidelines to the math solver structured data help documentation over the weekend. The new guidelines list out a number of requirements in order to be able to show math solver and practice problem rich results in Google Search. Technical guidelines. The new technical guidelines call for

In the latest Search Off the Record podcast, Gary Illyes from Google spoke about how Google Universal Search works and more importantly, how Google decides which vertical search feature to rank in what position in the main search results. Gary Illyes explained why sometimes featured snippets show up at the top, or maybe news articles,

Google has updated its technical guidelines for Fact Check structured data saying that a page must only have one ClaimReview element and that multiple fact checks per page is no longer allowed. The revised guidelines. The revised guidelines now say “to be eligible for the single fact check rich result, a page must only have

Google seems to have resolved the bug it has with showing review snippets or stars in the search results. We are now able to see the gold yellow stars for many search results in the Google Search results. Timeline. The bug began creeping into the Google Search results interface on Wednesday, July 21st based on

Google is rolling out the link spam update today and throughout the next two weeks. This link spam update targets spammy links “more broadly” and “across multiple languages,” Duy Nguyen, a Google search quality analyst, said. The announcement. Google wrote “in our continued efforts to improve the quality of the search results, we’re launching a

Google added the Math Solvers rich results option as a filter in the Google Search Console performance report search appearance options. Just like you have several dozen options to filter the performance reports, you can now do so for the practice problems/math solver structured markup. The announcement. Google announced this on Twitter saying “Following the

We know Google has told us to leave our redirects up for at least a year, but now, Gary Illyes from Google said the “concrete answer” after he dug into how Google Search handles it internally, is to leave your redirect up for “at least one year.” This will result in Google to pass any

Google has confirmed it is fixing two search related bugs that impact what is shown and displayed in the Google search results. The issues are with review stars showing in the search results and how Google processes soft 404 documents. The two issues seem to be unrelated but are both being addressed and fixed by

Google can now list several of the factors or reasons why it ranked a specific search result in its search results listings, the company announced. This feature is an expansion to the about this result box that launched in February 2021. Google Search can show the terms it matched on the web page and your