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Google removing generic rich results filter from Search Console performance report Google says this is because it now breakouts most rich result types in their own search appearance filters. Barry Schwartz on May 25, 2021 at 11:23 am Google announced it is removing the generic rich results filer in the search appearance section within Search Console‘s performance report. This means you will no longer be able to see in an aggregate how your rich results are performing. Google said it is...

Google Search Console performance report gains practice problems You can now track your performance for your practice problem rich results. Barry Schwartz on May 24, 2021 at 10:43 am Google announced a new addition to the performance report in Search Console, specific for the practice problems rich results. You can now see the impressions, clicks, click through rates and other metrics in the performance report by filtering the report in the “search appearance” filter. Note, you wil...

Plus new Google Ads smart bidding features. Barry Schwartz on May 21, 2021 at 10:00 am Search Engine Land’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s search marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the internet does, sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox daily. Good morning, Marketers, we saw a lot of announcements from Google out of the Google I/O event this week. Knowing what is real and what is not is har...

Google page experience update will come to desktop pages We will have time to prepare but overall, do not expect this update to be too drastic. Barry Schwartz on May 19, 2021 at 8:22 am Jeffrey Jose, a Google Product Manager, announced at Google I/O that while the Google page experience update is initially only going to be looking at mobile pages, Google is looking to bringing it to desktop pages as well. The announcement. Jeffrey Jose announced in his Google I/O talk yesterday and on Tw...

Also an unconfirmed, Google algorithm update, local search features and video SEO. Barry Schwartz on May 14, 2021 at 10:00 am More Search Engine Land’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s search marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the internet does, sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox daily. Good morning, Marketers, are you excited about the upcoming Google I/O event? This year, Google is holdin...

Several months after Google said it would deprecate the Google structured data testing tool, Schema.org has launched its markup validator.

Also, Google updated its event structured data report in Search Console.

Google call history report begins to show data in Google My Business Several months after showing a "preview call history" feature, Google is now showing some data in this report. Barry Schwartz on May 11, 2021 at 8:13 am More In October 2020, Google began showing a call history feature in Google My Business. But the data was blank and it may, at best, have shown a summary of answered and missed calls initiated from Google Maps or Google Search. Now Google has begun to show actual caller...

Google events enhancement report updated to show more errors You may see an increase in the number of errors in this Search Console report as a result of the reporting change. Barry Schwartz on May 11, 2021 at 8:02 am Google has updated its Google Search Console enhancement report for event structured data/rich results to show more errors. In short, Google is now able to report on more issues with your event structured data. What changed. Google said it changed how it evaluates and repo...

Google search rankings algorithm check-in; Friday’s daily brief Local Service Ads Google bug, speeding up images and the value of our old internet companies. Barry Schwartz on May 7, 2021 at 10:00 am More Search Engine Land’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s search marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the internet does, sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox daily. Good morning, Marketers, let�...