Here is our monthly Google Webmaster report with the big ticket item being the Google Medic Update coverage, with some other updates this past month as well. Google launched a link report in the new Google Search Console, updated some reporting and launched some new search features this past month. A lot happened in the past month, so if you took a lot of the month off for the summer, here is a quick way to catch up.
Like I said, the August 1st Google update I named the Google Medic Update even thought it did not only impact health related sites. We covered this update extensively, so you can see our coverage below. There were some other updates this month, linked to below.
Google released a new link report in the new Google Search Console, updated a report causing confusion, also made the index report more accurate and added a bunch of features I linked to below. Google also launched expandable featured snippets, showed off new search features and fixed the video carousel issue some were complaining about.
Finally, the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread is pretty slow right now, just some complaints about traffic declines over the Labor Day weekend in the US now.
It was a super busy month and if you need to catch up, here are the curated topics I picked out from the last 30 days or so:
Google Updates:
- Google Search Algorithm Update Starting On August 22
- Google Search Algorithm August 1st Update Rolling Out Now - Core Broad Update
- Survey: Tell Us How You Were Impacted By The Google August 1st Update
- What Google & SEOs Are Saying On The August 1st Algorithm Update
- Google Core Algorithm Update Roll Out Slowing Down
- Google Medic Update: Google's Core Search Update Had Big Impact On Health/Medical Sites
- Google Medic Update: What You Can Do To Fix Your Rankings
- Google Medic Update Complete But We Are Seeing New Search Fluctuations
- Don't Flat Line After The Google Medic Update
- Poll: How Are You Going To Fix Your Rankings After The Google Medic Update?
- Google: The Medic Update Is Global; All Categories Of Search, Not Just Health
- Google Medic Update: Many Are Looking Back To Google's Panda Advice From 2011
- Did The Google Medic Update Make Search Worse? Show Google Examples.
- Google: Google's Medic Update Was Not Designed To Target YMYL Or Health Sites
- Reports Of Some Google Medic Update Recoveries
- Google: We Looked At How To Give SEOs Advice On The Google Medic Update
- New Google Search Console Finally Gets Link Report
- New Google Link Report To Get Download Latest Links Feature
- Google's New Link Report May Show Different Data & Numbers
- Google Search Console Reports Removes Anonymous Queries
- Possible Bug With Google Search Console Performance Report Query Filter
- Google Search Console August 19th Query Report Drop Clarified
- Google Search Console Index Coverage Upgraded & More Accurate
- Beta Google Search Console Adds Verify Sites, Manage Users & Mobile Usability Report
- The Google Search Console New Link Report Has A Latest Links Download
- Google Search Console URL Inspection Tool Shows More Recent Data Than Indexing Reports
- Hey Google: We Still Want An Automated Action Viewer In Search Console
- Google Analytics Access Will Auto Verify You In Google Search Console
- Google Search Console Sends Useful HTTPS Gone Wrong Notifications
- Don't Let The "Google Search Update" Notice In Search Console Confuse You
- Google Launches Expandable Featured Snippets
- Google FAQ, Q&A and How-To Snippets Requires Schema
- Google Fixes Video Carousels To Show Them Less Often
- Google Datasets Schema Now Live In Search Results
- Google: Taking Old Content & Relabeling It As New Is A Bad SEO Hack
- Google Panda & Penguin: The Page Level Differences
- Google Launches Structured Data Codelab
- Google Can Process Canonical Tags In JavaScript
- Google Converts PDFs To HTML For Indexing In Search
- Google: Certifying Content It Still Valid Is Good, But Not Date Update Worthy
- Google Judges All Content On Your Pages, Be It Written By You Or Others
- Google: We Strongly Recommend 301 Redirects For HTTPS Migrations
- Google: We Do Not Favor Fresh Content
- Google Crawls Pages More Often If They Are More Important & Popular
- Google Adds Troubleshooting Section For Job Posting Structured Data
- Google: Useful Content Position On A Page Doesn't Matter
- Banned From Google Event Markup? You Can Now Submit A Reevaluation Request.
- Google Cache Date Is Last Indexed Or Reindexed
- Google Now Recommends Date Published & Modified Structured Data To Non-AMP Articles
- Google: The Source Alone Of The Link Doesn't Make The Link Bad
- Google Ignores A Lot Of Edu Links
- Google: Redirecting All Your URLs To Your Home Page Is A Bad Practice
- Google On Links For Republishing My Content
- Google Tests Rounded Search Box That Sticks To Top
- Google Tests "Relevant History" In Search Results
- Google Tests Grouping Two Search Results In One Box
- Google Tests Another Image Search Results Design With Overlay Preview
- Google Tests New Image Search Results Preview Design
- Google Tests Another Design Variation Of Hotel Search Results
- Google Tests Top Stories Box Design With Images
- Google Tests Image Icons In Related Searches
- Was There A Google Local Maps Algorithm Update Too?
- Google My Business Insights To Expand Query Pool
- Google Releases Google My Business API v4.2
- Google My Business Adds Veteran Led Attribute / Icon
- Google Local Panel: Browse Some Featured Items Sold Here
- Google Add Google Posts In Local Knowledge Panel
- Google Local Panel Adds "Your Past Visits"
- Google Hotel Location Scores & Tab Now Live
- Google "View Previous Posts" To Highlight Old Google Posts
- Google My Business Menu & Services Editing Now Globally Available
- Google Posts Insights Announced
- Listen To Google Speakable Markup In Action Over Here
- Google Assistant Supports Multilingual Responses
- Google Assistant Hopes To Cheer You Up With Good News
- Google Analytics Showing Some New Google Image Search Referrer Data
- Google Dance Zurich Takes Place On September 21st
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