It was a busy month with lots of nuggets, the biggest news was Google's beginning of their mobile first index. We also saw an unconfirmed Google update on November 10th and maybe a reversal a week later. Google updated their featured snippets algorithm and potentially their top stories algorithm as well.
We had tons of Google Search Console changes, see the list below. We had also a ton of SEO tidbits we covered, see below. Let's not forget all the user interface changes, including a new desktop search interface which I think is now rolling out but I can be wrong.
The ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has the typical chatter - nothing too crazy right now. And if you missed last month, catch up over here.
Here is my recap:
Google Algorithms:
- Google Launches Mobile-First Index Experiment: Here Is Everything We Know About It.
- Was There A Google Search Update On November 10th?
- Google Update Reversed November 10th Update On November 18th
- Google: Nothing To Announce For November 10th Search Algorithm Update
- Google Machine Learning Sentence Compression Algorithms Powers Features Snippets
- Google: Machine Learning Can Be Used To Make New Ranking Signals Out Of Old Ones
- Google Tweaking Top Stories Algorithm To Filter Out Fake News?
- Google Admits A Bug In Search Hurt Gmail's Competitor ProtonMail?
- Google: We're Moving Search To An Artificial Intelligence First World
- Google To Force 30-Day Penalty Status For Repeat Offenders Of Safe Browsing
- Google On The Hunt For Spammy Exact Match Domains (EMDs)
- Google: Giving Charity & Donations In Exchange For A Link, Is A Paid Link
- Google's SEO Friendly Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) Recommendations
- Google Promises More Mobile First Index Webmaster Recommendations
- Google: Make Sure Your AMP Pages Have Your Primary Content If...
- Google Snippet Date Wrong In Search Results For Many
- Google Site Move Recommendations Updated: Big Vs. Small Sites
- Google: Canonical Tags Don't Save *Much* Crawl Budget
- Google LocalBusiness Schema Now Requires Image & priceRange Fields
- Google Rich Cards For Local Restaurants & Online Courses
- Google Revamps Article Structured Data Documentation For AMP
- Google Recipes Markup Guidelines Now Says Use AMP HTML
- Google Local Restaurant Lists Rich Cards Markup
- Google: You Can Use Different Markup Formats For Structured Data
- Google: AMP & Desktop But No Mobile, Mobile-First Index Picks Desktop Version
- The META NOINDEX Tag Doesn't Save Your Google Crawl Budget
- Google: Cache Date Not Indicative Of GoogleBot Crawl Rate
- Google Expands App Indexing For Personal Content To All Android Developers
- Google: Going HTTPS vs Switching URL Structures Are Different
- Google: Keep Site Speed Below 2-3 Seconds
- Google & Bing Increase File Size Limit Of Sitemap File By 400%
- Shabbat Observers & The Google Interstitials Mobile Penalty
- Google: Displaying Rich Snippets Doesn't Mean All Algorithms Think Your Site Is Quality
- Google Does Not Promote Or Demote Based On Top Level Domain
- Google: Domain Registration Length Not An SEO Factor
- Google Returns Porn For Sexy Black Mom But Not For Sexy White Mom
- Google Search Console Performing Infrastructure Updates, Some Reports May Be Delayed
- Google Search Console Removes The Content Keywords Report
- Google Search Console Removed Feature Phone URL Error Report
- Google Mobile Friendly Test Tool Allows You To Submit Pages To Google's Index
- Now Google Search Console's Update Indicator Line Is Clickable
- Google Search Console Changes "Submit To Index" To "Request Indexing"
- New: Google Search Analytics Report Filter Between Rich Result & Normal Results
- Google Crawl Data Report For Apps Now Updated Every Few Days Vs. Daily
- Google Does Try To Reach Out Directly To Webmasters In Trouble
- Google Knows Of 130 Trillion Pages On The Web - 100 Trillion More In 4 Years
- Google Rolling Out New Desktop Search Interface?
- Google Search Tests New User Interface
- Confirmed: Google Removed The Knowledge Graph Snippet Overlay
- Bug: Google Drops Small Sitelinks From Search Snipperts
- Google Tests Basic "Back To Top" Button On Mobile
- Google Tests Clunky "Back To Top" Button In Mobile Search Results
- Google Knowledge Panel With Video Carousel
- Google Knowledge Panel Adds Like & Dislike Buttons
- Google Recipes In Search: Found In Related Search
- Google AMP Search Results Snippet Banner - Lightning-Fast Experience
- Google AMP Hotel Listing Carousel Live In Mobile Results
- Google Local Pack Testing Showing Query Above Map
- Google Now Showing Upcoming TV Shows In Search
- Google People Also Ask Feature Dynamically Loading More Queries
- Google Testing New AMP News Carousel Design?
