Topic: google search console
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Verify Your Cloud Hosting with Google Search Console
Verifying cloud-hosted assets in Google Search Console is essential for SEO oversight, allowing monitoring of performance and access to debugging data for issues like crawling and indexing. Setting up verification involves creating a CNAME DNS record for a custom hostname (e.g., a subdomain) poin...
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Google Search Console Unveils New Achievements Section
Google has introduced a new achievements section in Search Console, centralizing performance milestones previously shared only via email. The feature, accessible from the menu sidebar or domain property, displays badges and recognitions for meeting search performance goals in a user-friendly form...
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Google Search Ranking & Position Tracking: The Current Chaos Explained
Google and third-party SEO tools are experiencing reporting issues with organic search metrics due to Google removing the option to display 100 results per page. This change has disrupted external rank tracking tools that relied on scraping large result sets, forcing them to adapt their methods a...
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Google Search Console Unveils Branded Queries Filter
Google has launched a new branded queries filter in Search Console, enabling website owners to separate performance reports by branded and non-branded search queries for clearer insights into traffic sources. Branded queries, which include exact brand names and variations, typically result in hig...
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Google Search Console Adds Custom Performance Report Annotations
Google Search Console now offers custom performance report annotations, allowing website owners to track significant events like site updates or algorithm changes directly alongside their search data. Users can add annotations by right-clicking the performance chart on a specific date, entering a...
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ChatGPT's Strangest Leak: Cringey Chat Logs Found in Google Analytics
A privacy breach allowed private ChatGPT user conversations to appear in Google Search Console, exposing sensitive personal and business discussions. SEO experts discovered evidence suggesting OpenAI was harvesting Google Search data using actual user prompts, raising significant privacy concerns...
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Google: Sitemap Uploads Don't Ensure Instant Crawling
Submitting a sitemap to Google Search Console does not ensure immediate crawling or indexing, as Google processes it based on its own priorities and schedule. Only the main sitemap.xml file needs to be submitted, as it references all subsidiary sitemaps, making individual submissions unnecessary....
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Google Crawl Stats Report: Missing a Day of Data?
A widespread one-day gap in Google Search Console crawl stats data for October 14, 2025, has been reported, preventing access to key metrics without an official explanation from Google. The issue is likely a display or processing glitch in the reporting interface and not an actual failure in Goog...
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Google: Soft 404s Waste Crawl Budget Even with 200 OK
Soft 404 errors, which return a 200 OK status but display "page not found" messages, waste crawl resources by misleading search engines into indexing low-value pages. Google Search Console's Index Coverage report helps identify soft 404s, such as out-of-stock product pages or empty search results...
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Unlock Your Rankings: Why Indexing is the Crucial First Step for SEO Success
In SEO, we often focus on keywords, backlinks, and content quality. But what if your perfectly optimized page remains invisible to search engines? This is where indexing – the process by which search engines like Google and Bing discover, analyze, and store your content in their massive databases – comes into play.
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How to Track Google AI Overviews Visibility & Impressions
Google's AI Overviews are reshaping search results, causing significant declines in click-through rates for traditional organic listings and creating a critical data gap for SEO planning, as Google Search Console does not provide this information. Being cited as a source within an AI Overview is ...
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Google Reveals Why Link Disavow Files Take Time to Process
Google’s link disavow tool helps address unnatural backlinks that can’t be manually removed, but it’s not a quick fix and is primarily for intentional spammy links. The tool, accessible via Google Search Console, lets users submit domains or URLs to exclude from ranking considerations, though mos...
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Google Bug Let Attackers Remove URLs from Search Index
A Google vulnerability allowed attackers to forcibly remove legitimate URLs from search results by exploiting an unauthorized flaw in the removal tool, which was later patched after widespread abuse. A tech CEO weaponized the exploit to suppress critical journalism by repeatedly submitting fraudu...
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XML vs. HTML Sitemaps: Which Is Better for SEO?
An XML sitemap is a technical file for search engine crawlers, designed to help them discover and index pages, especially those that are new, orphaned, or deep within a complex site structure. An HTML sitemap is a webpage for human visitors, serving as a supplementary navigation aid to help users...
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