SEO Wash-up Monday 10th September

SEO Wash-up Monday 10th September

Google Updates

Google tests relevant history in the search results – The search giants are testing the ‘relevant history’ in the searcher results section. The feature will show your past searches that are relevant to the search you just are looking for currently. The relevant history feature will bring awareness to Google storing your search history, so therefore it may not be fully roll out as some may not be comfortable with Google doing so.

Google Ads have restricted third party technical support providers – Google will now begin restricting ads from third-party technical support providers due to an increase in misleading ad experiences. They will be rolling out a verification program to validate these technical support providers are legit.

Although it is unclear how that verification process will work, but maybe Google will mail postcards or something to these offices. They said that they have seen a rise in misleading ad experiences from third-party technical support providers and that lead to Google restricting ads in this category globally.

Google Search Console new beta version – Previously when you went to the Google Search Console home page, it used to take you to the new beta version of the Google Search Console as default rather than the old version of the Google Search Console. However, Google has now announced that Google Search Console is out of the beta. But Google does still have a link to the old version that you can have access to by typing the web address or via the link in the sidebar of the new Google Search Console.

Google Search Console Adds live URL inspection tool and manual actions – As Google Search Console is now out of beta, they have rolled out a new live feature for the URL Inspection tool. Google has also brought in the manual actions section into the tool and cleaned up the side bar navigation to access these features.

  • Manual actions – The manual actions viewer hasn’t got any new functionality from the previous version, but they have redesigned a little a bit. They wrote that to ensure you don’t miss any critical alerts for your site, active manual actions and security issues, it will be shown directly on the Overview page in the new Google Search Console.
  • New side bar – Google has cleaned up the side bar by organising a bunch of the functionality and added some more links to the footer.
  • Live URL inspection tool – The URL inspection tool shows the information Google has based on last indexed date, let’s you now test live URLs that may have been updated or not yet in the Google index. The tool also lets you submit the URL for indexing to Google.

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