Wash Up Monday

Google Updates Google search console API does not return sitemaps indexed counts - As Google is removing the old Google Search Console APIs, Google won't be supporting showing the indexed count within the sitemaps commands. A spokesman from Google mentions that as they removed that functionality from the UI some time ago, they’re no longer returning sitemaps indexed counts in the API…

Google Updates Google tests mobile vs desktop feature - Google has rolled out a new feature to their rich results testing tool that allows you to pick if you want to see how Googlebot mobile or desktop sees the structured markup on the page. The search giant added this feature for developers, publishers and SEOs in order to help them understand which…

Google Updates Google lets restaurants & customers add or edit dishes - Google has announced  that both restaurants and their customers can now add popular dishes to their Google local panel results. They have also mentioned that the popular dishes feature is powered by a machine learning algorithm that matches dish names, which is provided…

Google Updates Google tests new beta versions of chromium on GoogleBot - It seems like they have been testing features that do not work in Chrome 74, but work in Chrome 75. Although Chrome 75 is not out yet for end users, it actually is being testing in beta. A spokesman from Google…

Google Updates Google search console adds new reports - Google has added new reports to Google Search Console. Unparsable Structured Data Report - This report aggregates parsing issues such as structured data syntax errors, preventing Google from identifying the feature type. Using this report, you can see if Google was unable to parse any of…

Google Updates Google My Business looking to charge - Google has been sending out a survey to some local businesses. In the survey it asks the local businesses if they are willing to pay a monthly fee in exchange for Google My Business listing services. Google Ads and AdSense has reporting delays - There seems to be reporting…

Google Updates Google image search tests preview screen - Google has once again started to test a new user interface for the image search preview image window. Although this is similar to the previous tests, this one takes the right hand window look and keeps the black background interface versus the white background interface. Google says the Speed Update resulted in a…

Google Updates Links not showing in search console are irrelevant - A spokesman from the search giant was answering a few questions around an old topic of showing only a sample of links in the link report, in Google Search Console. They mention that generally if the links are not shown in the tool then they are irrelevant overall. Google also…

Google Updates Google search results has video thumbnails in snippets - You may have seen examples before with video thumbnails in the Google search results snippets. Now, it seems like the search giant is showing video thumbnails more often, like they are with their image thumbnails. So are you actually seeing more video thumbnails in your mobile search results? When you click…

Google Updates Google automobile knowledge panel - Google now shows a new knowledge panel and search result interface for car related keywords. If you search for a make, brand and year, you get this neat packed up search result with all the details on that specific car. Google Assistant can book a restaurant reservation - You may have realised…