A couple of weeks ago Forbes blocked its coupons directory on its website from being crawled by Google. Now Forbes has completely wiped out all the coupons from its site, serving a 410 status code and removing the coupons link from its navigation. If you try to access forbes.com/coupons, you should get a 410 status … Read more
Google has removed the feature to add publications manually to the Google Publisher Center. Instead, publications will be automatically added when Google’s algorithms decide to. Google wrote yesterday, “Starting today, publishers can no longer add publications to the Publisher Center.” Google added that they are “making this change as part of a transition to roll … Read more
Google is giving advertisers more control over ad placement within the Search Partner Network. From March 4, advertisers using Performance Max will have access to impression-level placement reporting of Search Partner Network sites. Additionally, if you exclude certain ad placements at the account level, it will now apply to the Search Partner Network, as well … Read more
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Crucial evidence from the Google antitrust trial has been removed from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) website. The DOJ had been publishing key documents, including Google’s private emails, memos, charts and internal presentations as it presented its case – without informing Judge Amit Mehta first. When the search engine raised a complaint, the judge … Read more
Google announced that they have completely removed the How-To Rich Results. The schema for it can still be used but there will be no benefit in the search results from using it. The reason given for removing the How-To rich results is that this is a part of simplifying the search results pages. How-To Rich … Read more
Google has removed the @id mentions in the site name documentation calling the use of @id “unneeded.” If you compare the old version of the page to the new version, you will see the example code that shows @id lines were removed. Google wrote that today, August 2nd they have “removed unneeded mention of “@id” … Read more
Google announced its decision to remove links to Canadian news from its Search, News, and Discover products in response to Canada’s recently enacted Bill C-18. Unfortunately, we’ve made the difficult decision that when Bill C-18 takes effect, we will remove Canadian news links from our Search, News and Discover products. https://t.co/ilWrF1uRuS pic.twitter.com/wMdoignNlC — Google Canada … Read more
May 2, 2018 | Posted by Shay Harel Get set to explore another wild month on the Google SERP as the search engine continues its trend of both confirming algorithm updates (with what is perhaps some ambiguity) and making major changes to what the SERP and its features look like. April, in particular, … Read more
Google quietly updated its documented Google ranking systems page and completely removed several page experience-related ranking systems from the page. Google removed the page experience system, the mobile-friendly system, page speed system and the secure site system from the page. These removals makes you wonder if any of these algorithm updates mattered at all to … Read more
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