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John Mueller of Google said there is no healthy percentage of traffic you should expect from your Googlebot activity compared to other bot and traffic activity on your site. Meaning you don’t need to worry if Googlebot is taking up 2% of your server resources and not 20% of your server resources. This question was […]

Google seems to be testing the ability to filter by perspectives. Google is testing a button to filter your query by the perspectives results. This was spotted by Saad AK, he posted a video on Twitter, here is a GIF of that video in action: Here is a still screenshot: About a year ago, Google

Google updated the video structured data to say that the description property is no longer required. Instead, Google moved the description property item to the “recommended” section, from the “required” section of the help document. This means that videos that were missing the description property within your structured data are now valid. Google Search Console

Earlier this week, we reported on an unconfirmed Google search ranking update on May 1st and 2nd. Well, throughout the week, things have heated up a lot more, and we are seeing more volatility reported by the tools and more SEO chatter within the community. Again, Google has not confirmed any update is going on

This week, I posted the monthly Google webmaster report for May 2023. Google may have pushed out an unconfirmed search algorithm update on May 1st and 2nd, and that update seems to have heated up in a big way later on in the week. Microsoft opened Bing Chat to all and updated some features. Google

In the latest Google SEO office hours, Google said that Google does not trust outbound links from a site they think is spammy. Duy Nguyen from the Google Search Quality team said this at the 35-second mark into the video. The question was, “If a domain gets penalized does it affect the links that are

Google has posted that the Google Merchant Center feeds have issues. The notice is posted here and reads, “We’re investigating reports of an issue with Feeds. We will provide more information shortly.” The issue started yesterday, May 3rd at 7:16 am ET and has not yet been resolved (at least when I wrote this). I

Google’s John Mueller said it is a “terrible idea” to disavow links based on metrics from a third-party tool. In fact, John is not a fan of disavowing links in most cases. When John was asked if one should disavow links based on those pages being under a certain score from a third-party tool, John

Google Ads seems like it will not be adding Search Impression Share reporting to Performance Max campaigns any time soon. Google’s Ginny Marvin confirmed that “auction insights and click share reporting in PMax only include Search network.” She said she agrees that “click share & Imp share measure diff things & correct that Auction Insights