This past month, Google announced the Page Speed update, a new ranking algorithm designed to lower the ranking of mobile pages that are really slow. Google also may have released a few unconfirmed algorithmic updates to core search.
Google released the beta Google Search Console to all, which gave us 16 months of data. A new PageSpeed Insights tool came out with some interesting new ways to report on speed as well. Google promised to have a solution to show the publisher URLs for AMP pages in the coming future. Google also opened up a new Twitter account named @searchliaison to help people understand why Google search does what it does.
The ongoing WebmasterWorld thread at this point in time is pretty quiet.
Here is a recap of the past month:
Google Algorithms & Updates:
- Google Speed Update: Google Algorithm Designed To Downgrade Slow Mobile Pages
- Possible Google Algorithm Update January 15th
- More Google Search Algorithm Updates Going On Now?
- Google Search Algorithm Update Tweaks Continue Into January
- Google: Our Search Algorithms Don't Try To Figure Out Reading Levels
- Google Search Console Beta Live For Everyone Now
- Google Search Console Beta Sends Invites To More Webmasters & Adds Features
- Google Search Console Team Wants To Know Which Reports You Are Missing Most
- Google Search Console Issues & Validating Email Notifications
- Remove URLs Report In Google Search Console Under Maintenance
- New Google Search Console Performance Reports Are A Day Off
- Google Search Console Performance Report Adds More Comparison Filters
- Google Search Console Search Analytics API To Get 16 Months Of Data
- New Google Search Console Is Rolling Out With 16 Months Of Data
- Unusual Keywords In Google Search Analytics Reports Might Be Knowledge Graph Related
- Google PageSpeed Insights Tool Now Shows Real User Speed To Your Pages
- Google Gives Details On Featured Snippets & What New Snippets May Come
- Google's John Mueller: Be Yourself & Not Your Keywords
- Ranking Vs Indexing: The Google SEO Confusion
- Google: Don't Dynamically Change Sitemap File Names Daily
- PSA: Google Doesn't Use Content On Non-Canonical Pages
- Ranking In Google By Aligning Content Around Searcher Intent
- What To Do When Your Google Disavow List Is Maxed Out
- Google: You Can Target & Rank For Two Keywords On A Single Page
- Google: We Don't Use GPS Coordinates Schema In Search
- Google: Translate Your Image Alt Tags As Well
- Google's John Mueller Detailed SEO Advice To Webmaster Who Merged Four Sites
- GoogleBot Grows Taller: Reaches 12,140 Pixels High On Mobile & 9,307 Pixels High On Desktop
- Google: Site Splits Or Merges Take Longer Than Site Moves
- Google: Spectre & Meltdown Patches Shouldn't Impact Your Search Rankings
- Google Image Search Does Not Index Images From CSS
- Google News Removing Hundreds Of News Publishers
- Google: We Never Index All Known URLs
- Is Your Site Still Not Listed In Google News After Bug?
- Google PageSpeed Insights Unavailable Message
- Google: URLs In Sitemap Used To Determine The Canonical URL
- Google Discounts Hidden Text For Search Rankings But...
- Google: Too Many Subfolders Doesn't Hurt Your Search Rankings
- Google Featured Snippets Showing "According To" Above Some Results
- Google To Show Publishers URLs With Google's AMP Cache Later This Year
- Google Tests Latest From The Web Box In Search
- Did Google Change The Reverse Image Search?
- Google Showing Content Before It Is Published? Nah... Snippet "In X Hours"
- Google Tests White Local Knowledge Panel Design
- Google Sub Carousels In People Also Search For
- Google Tests Light Blue Links Again To Match Mobile Link Color
- Another Google Expandable Sitelinks Format
- Google Search Result Snippet With Embedded Image Carousel
- New Google Search Liaison Twitter Account From Danny Sullivan
- Google Assistant Expands, Android Auto, Browse Directory & Search Console Notifications
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
