Search Console is adding more context to its error reporting.
Eg: if a website doesn’t provide the name of the author in markup, Search Console currently reports an error named Missing field “name”. From now onwards, that error will be named Missing field “name” (in “author”).
More at https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2022/03/structured-data-issues-context?hl=en
The page experience report in Search Console launched earlier this year to offer publishers and site owners a way to quickly understand how their sites fare against the page experience signals.
Updated graphic of the factors that make up page experience signal, namely Loading (LCP), Interactivity (FID), Visual Stability (CLS), Mobile Friendliness, HTTPS and No Intrusive Interstitials.
More via – https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2021/08/simplifying-the-page-experience-report?hl=en
Zero-click Google searches increases to nearly 65% in 2020
Between January and December 2020, nearly 65% of Google searches ended without a click to another web property — up from 50% in June 2019.
Zero-click searches may mean that users’ queries are resolved right on the results page. By displaying ads or its own products, Google can extract value from zero-click searches, while other sites might not.
Via – https://searchengineland.com/zero-click-google-searches-rose-to-nearly-65-in-2020-347115
Google Search Console adds ‘associations’
To link with other Google accounts, which can give a better and wider view of your data across your various Google services.
Associations lets you connect your Search Console account with other Google accounts.
Google Analytics
Google Ads
Youtube
Play Console
Actions console & Chrome web store
Bing Webmaster Tools adds crawl requests, crawl errors & indexed pages to performance report
Microsoft Bing has added some new metrics to the bing webmaster tools
crawl requests
crawl errors
indexed pages
Now all the related data is in one place in Bing – crawling and indexing your site and if there are errors.
Microsoft integrates Clarity, its free to use web analytics tool with Bing Webmaster Tools
Sign up for Clarity directly in Bing Webmaster Tools or through https://clarity.microsoft.com
Clarity JavaScript tag can be installed on platforms such as WordPress, Shopify, Google Tag Manager, and others.
Good move by microsoft by integrating this through bing webmaster tool. Would give a lot of information through Analytics & SEO to marketers & developers.
Google launches new crawl stats report in Search Console
It includes
Total no of requests grouped by response code, crawled file type, etc
Detailed information on host status
URL examples to show where in your site requests occurred
Summary for properties with multiple hosts and support for domain properties
crawl requests broken down by these groups:
(1) response, (2) file type of the fetched URL, (3) purpose of the crawl request, (4) and Googlebot agent.
Google Webmasters Central Rebrands As ‘Google Search Central’
“Google Webmasters Central” to “Google Search Central”, both on our websites and on social media.
“Webmasters Help Community” to become “Google Search Central Community”.
information related to how Google Search works, crawling and indexing, Search guidelines, and other Search-related topics are moving to – https://developers.google.com/search/blog/
Googlebot mascot will now appear with a web crawling sidekick
Google introduces new Options for retailers to control how their crawled product information appears on its search engine
“nosnippet” robots meta tag
“max-snippet:[number]” robots meta tag
“max-image-preview:[setting]” robots meta tag
“data-nosnippet” HTML attribute
Check out google blog on how to implement these tags for controlling the listings
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