What a fun week in the SEO space - we had Google do some explaining or myth busting around the March 2019 core algorithm update, no - it wasn’t a reversal. Google just noticed that they have not supported the rel=next/prev markup for years now, but their advice has not changed they say. Bing still uses rel=next/prev the original way they did, for discovery but not for merging pages into sets. Google explained what is neural matching, how they use it and how it differs from RankBrain. Google published their annual web spam report, some interested stats in there you don’t want to miss. Google Search Console now supports removing of Sitemaps, opening them in a new tab and much more. Google is asking what SEOs and developers what they want in the Search Console API. Google posted a video on how to debug and test your JavaScript pages with search and SEO. Google said there is no such thing as an organic traffic budget. Google is trying out expandable knowledge panels. Google seems to be showing more video thumbnails in search. Google updated the UI for their Q&A in the search results. Google Ads now recommends columns to advertisers. And did you see Gary Illyes video bomb John Mueller this week? That was this past week in search at the Search Engine Roundtable.
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Search Topics of Discussion:
- Google March 2019 Core Update Myth Busting From Google
- Google March 2019 Core Update Had Many Reversals But It Was Not A Reversal
- Google: With March 2019 Core Update We Try To Make Incremental Improvements
- Google: Rel=prev/next Is Not An Indexing Signal Anymore; Help Docs Removed
- Google's Latest Advice On Pagination & Page Series Post rel=next and rel=prev
- Bing Uses rel=next and rel=prev For Discovery But Not Merging Pages
- What Is Google's Neural Matching?
- Google On Neural Matching vs RankBrain
- Google Web Spam Report: Google Sent 33% Less Manual Actions Last Year
- Google Search Console Now Allows Removal Of XML Sitemaps
- Google Search Console Sitemap Report With Delete, Open In New Tab & Detailed Reporting
- Google Survey On What Google Search Console API Features Do You Want?
- JavaScript SEO Google Video: Testing & Debugging
- Google: There Is No Google Organic Traffic Budget
- Google Knowledge Panels That Are Expandable
- Video Thumbnails In Google Search Results Snippets
- Q&A On Google - Showing Questions That Need Answers In Search
- Google Ads Now With Recommended Columns For Reporting
- Google's Gary Illyes Video Bombs John Mueller
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