August 2017 Google Webmaster Report

Aug 4, 2017 - 8:11 am 1 by
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This past month, the big items probably was the reveal of the beta Google Search Console amongst a lot of the bugs in the past month with that. Google's algorithm potentially having issues with Pinterest spam and other algorithm shuffles throughout the month. Google may have updated their local rankings algorithm as well.

Google has updated their quality raters guidelines again, posted an FAQs on job search and released a messaging feature for local businesses. Google killed off Google Instant Search and added a hamburger menu to the mobile results to let you access saved results.

Plus there is a lot, lot more as listed below. The ongoing WebmasterWorld thread is the same basic chatter, nothing really stands out over the past several days.

Here is the July webmaster report if you missed it.

Google Algorithm & Rankings:

Google Search Console: Google SEO: Google Local & Maps: Google User Interface:

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

 

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