Last month was a pretty busy month with Google announcing the launch of BERT, one of the most significant updates the company made to search ever - the company said. We have a lot on BERT below, including the possibility that the New York Times was hurt by it.
Google released the speed report for Search Console and integrated Site Kit into WordPress. Google launched in search those new snippet controls, so feel free to use them. Google said it will stop indexing Flash this year.
Google does not have an EAT score and no, there is no BERT score either. Good luck renting out experts to improve your E-A-T said Google. Oh, and content accuracy may be a ranking factor again.
Google had another short term indexing bug this month and is investigating broken search operators and a possible issue with recipe rich results.
It was a busy month, kind of like last month and the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread is still buzzing on BERT.
Here is a summary of the more important Google Webmaster related topics I wrote this month:
Google Algorithms & BERT:
- Google BERT Update Impacts 10% Queries & Has Been Rolling Out All Week
- Google: There Is Nothing To Optimize For With BERT
- The Google BERT Update Felt Small But Was Big
- New York Times Search Ranking Drop After Google BERT Update
- Google: There Are No BERT Values Or Scores
- Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Signals On Wednesday
- A Google Search Algorithm Update Rolling Out?
- New Google Search Console Speed Reports Rolling Out
- Google: Site Kit Now Available To All WordPress Sites
- Google Sends "Fix Videos Markup For" Search Console Messages
- Google's New Snippet Controls Rolling Out In A Few Days With Changes To Google France
- Google To Stop Indexing Content Within Flash This Year
- Google: We Do Not Have An EAT Score
- Google: Renting Specialist Or Expert Names Does Not Help With EAT
- Google: Content Accuracy Is A Ranking Factor
- Google: We Are Not Working On Content Submission & Crawling Removal
- Evergreen GoogleBot Now On Chrome 78
- Google Said It Is Reviewing Recipe Rich Results Bug Reports
- Google Recipe Rich Results Image Disappearing For Some?
- Google Adding City Names To Some Snippet Titles
- Google Video Structured Data: Use interactionStatistic Instead Of interactionCount
- Google: Auto-Translating Content Won't Lead To Google Manual Action But...
- Someday Machine Written Content Will Be Okay With Google Webmaster Guidelines
- Google Site Speed Video Starring John Mueller & Martin Splitt
- Google: Don't Crawl Your Site To Build A Sitemap File
- Google Corporate Contact Markup For Knowledge Panels Deprecated
- Google: Structured Data Can Help Generate Actions For Google Assistant
- Google Search Doesn't Recognize Authors But Rather Entities
- Google: Some But Not All Algorithms May Trigger Spikes In Crawl Rates
- New Term: Google Baby Algorithms
- Google: Core Updates Are Not About Bad Links
- Google: Links With Diminishing Traffic Are Not Any Less Valuable
- SEOs Have Doubt With Google's Disavow Link Tool
- Google: When Disavowing A Link, All Associations Are Removed
- Google: Disavow Tool Hurts Too Many Sites
- Google: Changing The Destination URL Of A Link Changes Relevance & Value Of That Link
- Google Changed Nofollow Link Rule To Better Understand The Web
- Google: The New Link Attributes Are Designed To Help Us Understand Better
- Google: All You Need Is Google's Link Tool, Not Third-Party Tools
- Google's Danny Sullivan: Journalists Should Link To Sources
- Google Fixed Another Indexing Issue With Fresh Content
- Google Is Investigating Broken Search Operators
- Google Changes Expandable Featured Snippet Look
- Google Tests Image Carousel In Local Pack
- Google Search Photos Of Places Nearby
- Google My Business Messaging Adds Photos
- Google My Business Tests Auto Replies For Reviews
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