Daily Search Forum Recap: March 26, 2021

Mar 26, 2021 • 4:00 pm | comments

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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.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

Search News Buzz Video Recap: Zero Google Click Study, Final Mobile First Indexing, Page Experience Rollout & Search Console News
This was an interesting week, let's start with the Sparktoro study claiming 65% of all searches done on Google do not lead to a click to a website. Then Google responded saying this is a misleading statement. This all led to a lot of debate on...
New Google Structured Data & Debugging Tools For Practice Problems & Math Solver Search Results
Google has new structured data markup for the practice problems and math solver search results. We first saw these results in the Google Search results back in late December 2020. Now, Google has officially launched this feature and with that launch has added new markup and reports in Search Console to debug these markup.
Google: Don't Re-block Pages After You Allowed Them To Crawl To See Noindex Tags
Gary Illyes from Google said it is an "silly idea" to re-block or re-disallow pages after you allowed them to crawl that page in order for Google to see the noindex tags on that page. I apologize for the title of this story, it was a hard one to write.
Can Google Add Annotations To Search Console Reports?
Annotations are great in Google Analytics and other tools. You can make a note in the reporting tools on a specific day or data point what happened that you think caused the blip in the data. So if you do a huge redesign one day, annotating that in your reporting tools can be useful when you look back at the data years later.
Google: First Party Data Includes Subdomains, ccTLDs and Vanity URLs Owned By The Company
Ginny Marvin, now of Google, said on Twitter that Google considers subdomains, country TLDs and vanity URLs owned by the same company would be considered a first party context. One caveat is that Google has a 5 domain limit per first-party set for vanity URLs.
Google Adds Free Property To Dataset Structured Data Docs
Google has added isAccessibleForFree to the datasets structured data help document. This new property tells Google Search if the dataset is accessible for free or if you need to pay to access the data.
Semrush At New York Stock Exchange
This photo of Olga Andrienko, the VP of Brand Marketing at Semrush, standing proud at the New York Stock Exchange yesterday morning before the company gores public makes me feel so proud of the search
Programming Note: Offline For Passover On Monday - March 29th
This is a programming note that I will be 100% offline Monday, Marc h 29th for the Passover holiday. Technically, I will be offline straight from Friday night through Monday night, so if anything blows up over the weekend, I won't get to it until Tuesday.