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Here’s a comprehensive Google Webmasters Report for April 2022 – where you’ll find out what you may have missed in the past month in terms of Google search and SEO topics. We had a confirmed Google algorithm update, July 2022 Product Ratings Update which was triggered Friday and the tools they just picked up this morning. We had a major indexing outage, more unconfirmed updates and made Google theirs algorithm update landing page.
Google has updated its search quality assessment guidelines last week, which is always big news in the SEO world. Google Search Console has updated its help documentation anonymized queries. Google Search Console Insights now works with Google Analytics 4 and you can recheck your properties using DNS CNAME. Also, this is a new video indexing report now rolling out, slowly and to some.
We also covered a lot of SEO topics and user interface changes, such as people also ask disappear and come back, things to know are leaving on desktop, new perspectives and much more.
Google has announced a series of changes to the Merchant Center and local site, The Google My Business app has stopped working. In addition, Google is testing new AR prototypes and they are forecasted earnings.
There is so much more going on besides chatting WebmasterWorld the thread is super light right now.
Here are the more important stories I pulled out for you all:
Google algorithm updates:
- July 2022 Google Product Reviews update starts – everything we’ve seen so far
- July 2022 Google Product Reviews The update started on Friday afternoon
- Tracking tools are now gaining on the volatility of the July 2022 Google Product Ratings Update?
- Google search algorithm update on July 16 or was related to indexing issue
- Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update July 10 – Unconfirmed
- Google Search ranking update volatility July 5th and 7th
Other important Google news:
- July 15 Google Search Indexing Issue – Google not indexing new content
- Google updates guidelines for search quality assessors on July 28
- Google creates a landing page with a timeline of major ranking updates
Google Search Console:
- Google Search Console anonymizes tons of queries; Updates Help Document by Ahrefs study
- Google Search Console Insights finally supports Google Analytics 4
- New Google Search Console verification via DNS CNAME
- The Google Search Console video index report is rolling out very slowly
- Possible bug with Google Search Console performance report for desktop videos
Google SEO:
- Google: Requiring age verification may prevent a site from appearing on Google Discover
- Google Super Basic Video on SEO
- Again, Google says that unique IP addresses do not give you a ranking advantage in Google
- Google signed exchanges for desktop, top news and news are now live
- Google: Search query pages are equivalent to low effort category pages
Google UI:
- Google Discover stories from TikTok, Facebook, YouTube for targeted queries
- Google Assistant interactive card knowledge panel frame layout
- Google Search is testing a rich layout of cards with net worth, news, videos and more
- Google folks are also calling for a return to normal levels
- Big drop in Google People are also asking
- RankRanger: Google Things You Need to Know No Longer Appears in Desktop Search
- Google’s top-ranking SERP feature leads to critic reviews and product articles on mobile
- Google’s SERP feature for interesting finds is missing from search results – perhaps it was no longer interesting to users
- Google Perspectives search results
- Google highly rated by Search Carousel users
- Google Tests List View the most important news with news that takes over the web results
- Google Tests Explore more search improvements for product queries
- Google Search displays the refund period in search results snippets
- Google is testing an improved search bar combined with vertical navigation
- Google Hotel Listings, newly introduced in the section
- Google’s Popular Products section gets videos
- Carousel of Google product results with highlights
- The Google product carousel displays product reviews under Appear in these listings
- Google product results test popular customers, most mentions, and more tags
- Google Search Trending Topics Box News On Mobile
- Google Search updates suicide prevention box with new options
- Try Google Get there, weather charts and map cards
- Google Search Timer and Stopwatch Stop ticking
Google Merchant Center:
- Google Merchant Center now allows free listings with required login and limited purchase
- The Google Merchant Center website needs improvement. Policy Update: No longer denied
- Google Merchant Center adds auto-tagging for all free listings across Google
Google Business Profiles and Local:
- The Google My Business app is no longer available
- Google is taking action on recent scams and extortion threats with a one-star rating
- FAQ about messages in Google Business Profiles for automated responses to customers
- Google Business Profile is testing an expandable menu in web search
- Google encourages video verification of a company’s profile
- Toggle your Google Business Profile to hide your address from customers
- Google Maps may remove selfies, blurry or poor quality images
- Google Tests “Reviews not verified” flag.
- Google posts expire after 6 months
- Google Maps to add aerial views, more cycling details and more
Other Miscellaneous Google:
- Google Analytics 4 now supports UTM term, UTM content, conversion metrics, and bounce rates
- Google Tests New AR Prototypes – Watch out for Google Glass
- Google Ads revenue rose 13.5% and Microsoft Bing Ads revenue rose 15%, but growth slowed
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