Topic: search console
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Maximize Your Search Console Results
A multi-property setup in Google Search Console is essential for large websites to overcome data limitations like API caps and row restrictions, enabling detailed insights into indexation and performance without extra cost. Third-party tools such as SEO Stack, SEO Gets, and Indexing Insight offer...
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Google Tackles Search Console Performance Report Delays
A significant reporting delay in Google Search Console has frozen performance data for all users since Sunday, October 19th, though Google has acknowledged the issue and is working on updates. Despite the main dashboard not refreshing, recent data is still being collected and is accessible in the...
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Google's Mueller: Fixing 'Page Indexed Without Content' Error
The "Page Indexed without content" error in Google Search Console is typically caused by a server or CDN blocking Googlebot's access, not by JavaScript, and is often invisible in standard tests. This IP-based blockage, frequently from security rules or automatic CDN updates, can cause rankings to...
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Google Search Console Insights Adds Social Media Integration
Google Search Console is testing an expansion of its Insights report to integrate performance data from major social media platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram, providing a unified dashboard for analyzing search visibility. This limited experiment offers a holistic view by showing metric...
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Google Tests Social Insights In Search Console
Google is testing a new Search Console feature that provides a unified dashboard for viewing search performance data for both a website and its automatically linked social media profiles. The experimental integration offers new metrics for social channels, including total reach, content performan...
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Google Search Console Indexing Report Faces Delays
Google has confirmed a significant delay in updating the Page Indexing report within Search Console, but this issue only affects reporting and not the actual crawling, indexing, or ranking of websites. The stale data in the report hinders real-time troubleshooting for SEO professionals, as it may...
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Google Search Console Now Supports Custom Report Annotations
Google Search Console now allows users to add custom annotations directly to performance charts, linking specific dates with events that affected search traffic. These annotations help correlate traffic changes with actions like site updates or marketing campaigns, providing a shared log for team...
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Google Search Console Launches New Query Groups Feature
Google has launched Query Groups in Search Console Insights, using AI to automatically cluster similar search queries into meaningful categories for easier analysis. This feature organizes search data into dynamic groups that highlight main audience interests and performance trends, such as chang...
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Google Search Console Unveils New Achievements Report for Milestone Tracking
Google has introduced a new Achievements report in Search Console, replacing email notifications and providing a centralized way to track site milestones and upcoming goals. The feature highlights one "In progress" achievement based on recent click activity and offers traffic comparisons, tips, a...
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Google Search Console Performance Reports Now Fixed
Google Search Console's main performance reports have been fixed and are now operating with a normal 2-6 hour data delay, resolving a multi-week backlog. However, a separate and severe delay persists in the page indexing report, where data is lagging by nearly a month with no resolution timeline....
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Google Search Console Now Features AI-Powered Configuration
Google has launched an experimental AI tool in Search Console that lets users configure Performance reports using conversational language, automatically applying filters, comparisons, and metrics. The feature simplifies three main tasks: filtering data, setting up comparisons, and selecting metri...
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Google Search Console Tests AI for Dynamic Reports
Google is testing an AI-powered tool in Search Console that builds custom performance reports from plain language descriptions, automatically applying filters and metrics. The experimental feature streamlines report creation by interpreting user queries to select metrics, apply filters, and set u...
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Track Google Shipping & Returns in Search Console
Google now allows merchants to submit shipping and return policy information directly via Google Search Console, removing the need for a Google Merchant Center account and enabling e-commerce sites to display these details in search results. Merchants can choose between configuring policies in Se...
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Google Groups Search Queries with AI in Search Console
Google has launched Query groups in Search Console Insights, an AI-powered feature that clusters similar search queries to simplify data analysis for website owners. The tool presents grouped data in three ways: overall group performance, a list of individual queries, and a drill-down for detaile...
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Google Ends Reporting on Key Structured Data Types
Google has stopped reporting on six structured data types, including Course Info and Vehicle Listing, to prioritize more relevant content features. This change affects tools like Search Console and the Rich Result Test, with data removal from the API by December 2025. The removal aims to streamli...
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Gemini 3 Launches & Adobe Acquires Semrush: SEO News
Google has integrated its Gemini 3 Pro model into Search, enabling interactive, tool-based responses like calculators and comparison tables, which alters user engagement and click-through patterns. Adobe's acquisition of Semrush for $1.9 billion signals a trend of SEO tools merging into enterpris...
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Google Search Drops 'Results Per Page' Feature
Google has removed the ability to display 100 search results per page via a URL parameter, which was never officially supported despite long-standing use. The change has disrupted rank-tracking tools and led to a drop in Search Console data, prompting speculation about motives like curbing unauth...
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Social Channel Insights in Search Console: Boost Your SEO & Social Strategy
Google is testing a new "Social Channel Insights" feature in Search Console, integrating social media performance data to show how social activity influences search discovery and traffic. This development reflects a broader consumer shift, as many users now begin their research on social media, m...
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Cloudflare Outage: How 5xx Errors Impact Your SEO
Cloudflare outages can cause temporary 5xx server errors, which primarily affect search engine crawling but rarely lead to immediate ranking drops if resolved quickly. Google treats temporary 5xx errors by slowing down crawling temporarily, and only prolonged errors risk de-indexing, with normal ...
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Google Removes Practice Problem Data from Search
Google is removing practice problem structured data from search results in January to streamline the search experience and phase out underused features. The change affects Search Console reporting and tools, with a transition period before complete discontinuation, while Dataset and Book actions ...
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Google Cuts Search Features: Practice Problems, Nutrition & More
Google is removing lesser-used search features and structured data types to simplify search pages and improve result speed, continuing efforts from previous cuts. Specific examples of features being eliminated include the "Today’s Doodle" box, nutrition facts, and local events, though the full li...
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Google Search Now Uses AI for Complex Queries
Google will automatically route complex search queries to its AI Mode using the Gemini 3 model, a change confirmed during testing in the U.S. The company is evaluating the need for separate performance data reporting in Google Search Console to help businesses track AI-driven search traffic. This...
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GA4's Blind Spot: Measuring AI SEO's True Impact
GA4 and traditional web analytics are insufficient for measuring AI SEO success, as they fail to capture the full, AI-influenced customer journey and critical brand interactions that occur without a direct website visit. New, dedicated AI SEO tools are emerging that use probabilistic methods to t...
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How AI Visibility Boosts Direct Traffic Without Clicks
AI-generated answers are creating a "read, remember, return" pattern, where brand mentions act as memory triggers that drive users to visit a company's website directly later, rather than clicking a link immediately. This influence often appears as untraceable **direct traffic** in analytics, as ...
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December SEO Update: Key Trends & Social Data Insights
Google launched its December 2025 core update, a major algorithmic change that will cause search ranking volatility over a three-week rollout period. The company clarified that smaller core updates occur continuously, encouraging proactive, ongoing content improvement rather than waiting for majo...
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Google's Search Update Disrupts Key SEO Tools
Google has potentially removed the &num=100 URL parameter, which previously allowed users to display 100 search results per page, causing disruption in the SEO industry. This change has led to immediate issues with rank-tracking tools, including outages and increased data retrieval costs, and may...
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Google AI Search Could Become Your Default "Very Soon"
Google is making AI Mode the default search experience globally, shifting from traditional links to AI-driven, conversational answers. The AI Mode feature, accessible via google.com/ai, provides synthesized responses using a "query fan-out" method for complex queries and supports multimodal input...
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Google's Core Update Now Impacts Discover Feed
Google has launched a dedicated core update for its Discover feed, initially rolling out to US English users, aimed at improving content quality and personalization systems. This update may shift Discover rankings independently from main web search results, creating a new dynamic for content crea...
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2025's Top 10 Must-Know SEO Updates
In 2025, AI became the core of search engines, forcing content creators to adopt new strategies for visibility and fundamentally changing the digital search landscape. Google's AI Overviews and similar features increased search impressions but significantly reduced click-through rates, creating a...
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Fix Hidden HTTP Pages Hurting Your Google Rankings
A hidden HTTP homepage can be indexed by Googlebot instead of the intended HTTPS version, leading to incorrect site names and favicons in search results due to faulty signals. To diagnose the issue, manually inspect the HTTP version using tools like the command line `curl` command or Google Searc...
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Google's August Spam Update Aims to Boost Search Quality
Google has launched a global spam update starting August 26, 2025, to improve search result quality by targeting undisclosed spam tactics across all languages. Website owners are advised to follow existing Google guidelines and avoid reactive changes, using tools like Search Console to monitor pe...
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Mueller: Background Video Loading Won't Hurt SEO
John Mueller confirmed that background video loading does not harm SEO if primary content loads first, addressing developer concerns about large video files. This approach aligns with Google's lazy loading recommendations, where non-essential resources like decorative videos can load after visibl...
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When AI and Search Engines Disagree: The Hidden Conflict
The relationship between traditional search engines and AI assistants is evolving, with search engines driving most measurable traffic while AI tools increasingly shape information discovery before clicks occur, requiring new measurement strategies for marketers. AI assistants use semantic retrie...
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Google's John Mueller Reveals SEO Flaws in Vibe Coded
Google's Search Advocate John Mueller identified technical SEO issues on a vibe-coded website, including essential content stored in a JavaScript file inaccessible to search engines, which limited its search visibility. Mueller recommended improvements such as incorporating key information direct...
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Google's Core Updates Are Constant, Not Just Periodic
Google now clarifies that its core search ranking algorithms are updated continuously, including through smaller, unannounced adjustments, meaning website rankings can shift at any time. This ongoing update process means content improvements can be recognized and rewarded without waiting for a ma...
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Build Authority Fast: A Guide for Unknown Experts
Building authority requires clarity, consistency, and demonstrable expertise rather than a large audience, transforming knowledge into a trusted resource for both search engines and your target audience. Authority is established through four components: clarity in communication, depth in specific...
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Complete Local SEO Audit: Your 11-Point Checklist
Begin with keyword and AI prompt evaluation to understand how customers search for your offerings, focusing on terms with commercial intent and accounting for voice and natural language queries. Conduct a comprehensive website assessment to ensure technical soundness, including page-level optimiz...
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Google Chrome to Get Built-In AI Assistant
Google is integrating an AI assistant called AI Mode into Chrome, allowing users to ask complex questions directly from the address bar and receive intelligent, context-aware responses. The tool supports contextual browsing by enabling queries about webpage content, offers conversational follow-u...
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Google Boosts AI Overviews with Prominent Links and AI Mode
Google has updated its AI search features to make source links more prominent and interactive, aiming to improve user engagement and bridge AI summaries with original publishers. The redesign includes a pop-up window for desktop hover and clearer icons, intended to drive more referral traffic to ...
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Google's New SEO Guide: JavaScript Canonical Best Practices
Google has updated its JavaScript SEO guidance to clarify how canonical URLs should be managed for client-side rendered sites, addressing a technical challenge where duplicate content indexing can occur due to conflicting signals. The core issue is that Google evaluates canonical tags twice—once ...
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Google Search Console Indexing Delays: What to Know
Google has confirmed a two-week reporting delay for the Search Console Index Coverage report, but this does not affect actual crawling, indexing, or ranking. The delay temporarily prevents webmasters from verifying fixes for indexing issues, complicating troubleshooting and monthly reporting. Goo...
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Is Your Login Page Killing Your SEO?
A generic login page across multiple private URLs can be seen as duplicate content by search engines, harming indexing and rankings. Using robots.txt to block private URLs is ineffective and can pose security risks; instead, use noindex tags or redirects to marketing pages with login options. Add...
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Google's Core Update Alters Discover Guidelines
Google has updated its "Get on Discover" guidance to provide clearer instructions for publishers, reflecting a core update aimed at reducing low-quality content and improving user experience. Key changes include separating title and clickbait advice, explicitly warning against "clickbait" and sen...
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Google's AI Mode Now Supports Multiple Languages
Google's AI Mode now supports Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese, expanding its global reach after launching in 180 countries and territories. The feature uses Gemini 2.5's advanced capabilities to provide culturally and contextually accurate responses, handling complex...
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