Google Product Reviews Update Was Really Big For Affiliates & Review Sites
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Last Thursday, Google began rolling out the new Google Products Reviews Update - I covered everything Google has said about it over in that story but now, it is time to cover the impact. It has been a few days since it started rolling out and those hit by this update are showing that this update can be as big as a core update if impacted.
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 13, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...
Report: Google Local Reviews Not Publishing
There are numerous reports of reviews not publishing and going live in the Google local results. So if someone leaves a business a review in Google Maps and Google Local, those reviews are either very much so delayed or just not publishing. Maybe there is some sort of technical bottleneck with the reviews pipeline?
Google: Break YMYL & Non-YMYL Content Into Separate Sites
If your website contains both YMYL, your money / your life, and non-YMYL topics of content, you may want to consider separating those out into their own standalone websites. Google's John Mueller implied that sometimes Google can do that automatically but it is safer to do it on your end so that you don't have to meet a specific E-A-T, expertise authority trustworthiness, threshold for the non YMYL content on that site.
Google Page Experience Algorithm Update Won't Be Real Time
The upcoming Google Page Experience Update which is suppose to launch next month is not going to be real time, like some of Google's other algorithm updates. This is kind of obvious, since we know there is a 28-day delay in gathering the core web vital data.
Google Image Search Does Not Index CSS Background Images
Google's John Mueller reminded us that when it comes to your CSS background images, Google won't be indexing or ranking those images in image search. John Mueller said on Twitter "last I checked, we don't use CSS background images for image search."
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