Google releases December 2022 link spam update
This update is rolling out now for the next couple weeks, while the helpful content is still rolling out.
Barry Schwartz a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.
This update is rolling out now for the next couple weeks, while the helpful content is still rolling out.
Barry Schwartz | Dec 14, 2022 at 12:22 pm ETThis report will confirm if there is an issue with crawling, indexing or serving with Google Search.
Barry Schwartz | Dec 14, 2022 at 6:44 am ETThis new document explains the most common user interface elements of Google web search page.
Barry Schwartz | Dec 13, 2022 at 12:21 pm ETThis feature looks and feels a lot like the Google Question Hub.
Barry Schwartz | Dec 9, 2022 at 12:27 pm ETThis started on December 5th, in the search performance report in Google Search Console.
Barry Schwartz | Dec 8, 2022 at 8:23 am ETThis update adds new signals and also brings the helpful content update globally for all languages.
Barry Schwartz | Dec 6, 2022 at 11:45 am ETAs previewed at the Search On event, now these new related topics options can show in the top far filter options.
Barry Schwartz | Dec 5, 2022 at 3:00 pm ETThis is now rolling out for English / U.S. search results.
Barry Schwartz | Dec 5, 2022 at 12:35 pm ETGoogle has also retired the DuplexWeb-Google web crawler.
Barry Schwartz | Dec 5, 2022 at 8:03 am ETGoogle Search Console said click and impression data may appear to increase because of this update.
Barry Schwartz | Dec 1, 2022 at 7:15 am ETIf you find ways to get around Google's spam measures, Google may take action on your content, site or account anyway.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 21, 2022 at 6:47 pm ETGoogle also lists the algorithms that are no longer being used for search rankings.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 21, 2022 at 10:26 am ETThere are reports of an increase in fraudulent ownership requests, so be careful.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 18, 2022 at 10:22 am ETMultisearch for food, Google Lens translation, AR beauty and shoes, Maps live view search and more.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 17, 2022 at 9:00 am ETThis gives you more details on your product snippets, merchant listings and the shopping tab listings.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 16, 2022 at 9:58 am ETAt SMX Next, Google revealed that, years ago, the Panda algorithm was replaced with an updated algorithm called Coati
Barry Schwartz | Nov 15, 2022 at 11:24 am ETCommas will continue to work but Google is specifically recommending you use dots over commas.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 15, 2022 at 8:07 am ETA bug with automatically applied suggested edits leads to some businesses seeing all their reviews vanish from Google.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 14, 2022 at 11:05 am ETThis was a reporting bug on October 23rd and did not impact the actual search results.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 10, 2022 at 7:58 am ETAs Google better understands how the content fits in within the context of the whole web, links might not be as necessary.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 4, 2022 at 7:59 am ETBetween October 18th and October 28th, Google Search had a bug with top stories and other search features.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 3, 2022 at 11:16 am ETGoogle rarely changes its desktop home page but today it did.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 1, 2022 at 1:21 pm ETRight before the holiday shopping season, Google added new search features to help searchers find deals.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 1, 2022 at 9:39 am ETYep, it is all about the Page Experience update and core web vitals when it comes to Google's ranking alogrithms.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 31, 2022 at 11:16 am ETAfter about a month, Google has finally fixed the bug where query data was not showing in Universal Analytic's Search Console query report.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 27, 2022 at 7:11 am ETThis was a reporting issue only and did not impact the Google search results.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 25, 2022 at 6:45 am ETThe update started on October 19th and was completed less than two days later on October 21st.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 21, 2022 at 5:50 am ETThis is a global update that may take several days to fully roll out.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 19, 2022 at 11:12 am ETMake sure to check out the new site name structured data documentation.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 14, 2022 at 9:00 am ETGoogle said this it to make the ad label more distinguishable from the organic search results.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 14, 2022 at 9:00 am ETGoogle has done a full refresh of its old Webmaster Guidelines, simplifying them and removing the term "webmaster."
Barry Schwartz | Oct 13, 2022 at 9:00 am ETThis update should improve efficiency, reduce errors and help advertisers going forward.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 12, 2022 at 4:27 pm ETThree new examples were added to the how to write product reviews Google help document.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 12, 2022 at 7:04 am ETLooker Studio Pro, a paid version, has also been announced.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 12, 2022 at 6:22 am ETGoogle is now being very explicit about this in their guidelines, so be careful.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 6, 2022 at 9:17 am ETThe data is showing in GA4 and in Search Console but not in Universal Analytics 3.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 6, 2022 at 9:10 am ETSome data may be missing in the search performance report, Google is working on restoring some of the data.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 4, 2022 at 7:55 am ETHere's a recap of the biggest updates from Google Search On 2022 event, including Multisearch, Lens, autocomplete, search filters and more.
Barry Schwartz | Sep 28, 2022 at 1:40 pm ETThe data is in from the tracking tools and here is what these tools are showing with the latest Google algorithm update.
Barry Schwartz | Sep 21, 2022 at 9:15 am ETThis is the fifth Google product reviews update that comes out about a month after the last update.
Barry Schwartz | Sep 20, 2022 at 5:18 am ET