October 2022 Google Webmaster Report

Daily Search Forum Recap: October 4, 2022

Oct 4, 2022 • 4:00 pm | (0) by Barry Schwartz

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.

Just a quick heads up, I am offline for Yom Kippur tonight/tomorrow, no stories will be posted on Wednesday...

Programming Note: Offline Wednesday For Yom Kippur 5783

Oct 4, 2022 • 3:30 pm | (0) by Barry Schwartz

This is just a programming note that I will be 100% offline starting Tuesday night (October 4th) through Wednesday night (October 5th) for Yom Kippur. I am not scheduling any stories on Yom Kippur...

Google Advice On When Copy Sites Outrank Your Original Content

Oct 4, 2022 • 7:51 am | (4) by Barry Schwartz

Danny Sullivan from Google provided some advice and took some feedback on a specific example of when an original piece of research from a website was being outranked by a site copying its information.

Report: Unusual Spike In Google Business Profile Insights Traffic

Oct 4, 2022 • 7:41 am | (0) by Barry Schwartz

There are some reports that in some industries, like the auto dealership industry, there is a bug with Google Business Profile insights reporting. There shows a large and unaccounted-for spike in traffic from Google Local and Google Maps for some of these businesses in these Google reports.

Google Search Console Performance Report Missing Data On September 21st

Oct 4, 2022 • 7:31 am | (1) by Barry Schwartz

Google has confirmed that some data may be missing in the Google Search Console Search Performance report on September 21, 2022. If you log in and view that report, you should see an annotation on that day, that explained more.