Google confirms widespread search indexing delays affecting a “small number” of websites. Google Search is experiencing indexing delays. The company says only a small number of sites are affected and is investigating the root cause. Google will provide an update on the situation soon. Source link
Google’s Lizzi Sassman and John Mueller answered a question about Content Decay, expressing confusion over the phrase because they’d never heard of it. Turns out there’s a good reason: Content Decay is a just a new name created to make an old problem look like a new one. Googlers Never Heard Of Content Decay Google … Read more
Someone on Reddit posted a question about their “crawl budget” issue and asked if a large number of 301 redirects to 410 error responses were causing Googlebot to exhaust their crawl budget. Google’s John Mueller offered a reason to explain why the Redditor may be experiencing a lackluster crawl pattern and clarified a point about … Read more
Google investigating indexing delays affecting some sites since Monday night, working to identify and resolve root cause. Google confirmed an indexing issue affecting some websites. The issue started around 11:30pm ET Monday night. Google is investigating the root cause and working to fix it. Source link
An advertiser recently asked Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, about an issue with seeing a high percentage of ad spend and conversions falling under “Other” search terms. Inquiry Into Ad Spend Anomalies The advertiser explained that for a campaign using all exact match keywords, 80% of ad spend and 90% of conversions were attributed … Read more
In a Google Office Hours Q & A, Google’s John Mueller answered a question about a site not getting indexed that brought to light a technical SEO fact about domains and subdomains that not everyone may be aware of and how that might cause the perception that a site is having trouble getting indexed. The … Read more
Users over the weekend were bewildered by Google Search Console failure to index webpages and the accompanying cryptic message, Failure: hostload exceeded. Many publishers checked with their web hosts then reported that the problem was not at the web host. It was assumed that the problem was on Google’s side. Google’s John Mueller helped to … Read more
Today, at 10:50 a.m Eastern time, Google confirms there’s an ongoing indexing issue affecting a large number of sites. The cause of the issue is unknown at this time. Google will provide an update within the next 12 hours. There’s an ongoing issue with indexing in Google Search that’s affecting a large number of sites. … Read more
Complying with customer data rights doesn’t mean just checking a few boxes and moving on. Your entire organization must shift in the way it views and processes customer data. Here are some tips to get started. Read the full article at MarketingProfs
