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Google Posts Revised Site Name Questions & Resources Thread

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1 year ago

August 1, 2023

With the updates to Site names last week, Google decided to post a revised set of questions, FAQs, resources, support and timelines on the whole Google Search site name bit in the Google Webmaster Help forums.

This was posted by John Mueller of Google but also Danny Sullivan of Google is active in these threads.

Here is the revised post – you can compare it to the old one from May over here. I’ll copy the revised one here, just in case one day it goes missing:

Site names timeline

October 2022: Site names for the domain level were introduced for mobile search results for English, French, German and Japanese.

April 2023: Site names were added for desktop for the same set of languages. Later in this month, we also released an update to how our system selected site names.

May 2023: Site names support was added on the subdomain level for the same set of languages and on mobile search results only.

July 2023: Site names support was added on the subdomain level for the same set of languages for desktop search results. We also released a further improvement in how our system selects site names and updated our documentation. See our blog post for more.

Resources & Support

Provide a site name to Google Search is our guidance about how to help us understand what site name to show for your site. We encourage you to review that guidance to resolve any issues, especially the troubleshooting section.

If you have followed that guidance and still aren’t seeing your preferred site name, feel free to share your situation below. In particular, provide your site’s home page URL, the site name you expected to see and the site name you actually see.

Please note: We do not use reports in this thread to make specific changes for particular sites. Instead, we use the reports to understand how to make general improvements to our system that generates site names.

FAQ

Below are some questions we’ve had. We may add to these over time.

Q: Why is my URL is showing instead of a site name?

A: If your URL is showing rather than a site name, this doesn’t represent an error but instead that our systems aren’t confident enough to show a site name for your site. This can be for a variety of reasons and might change over time. Consult our guidance and ensure you’re making use of your preferred site name in the areas that help us determine this.

Q: Why is my site that’s in a subdirectory is not showing my preferred site name?

A: Site names are not supported for subdirectories (for example, https://example.com/news is a subdirectory-level home page and cannot have its own site name). See our technical guidance for more.

Q: Why is my site name on my home page not appearing on or is different from what shows for my internal pages?

A: This is a known issue in some cases that we’re working to address. Please see our documentation for more.

I figured some of you would want to see this thread.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 10, 2024

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Report: Half Google AI Overviews Links Overlap With Top Search Results

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Google Flying Dutchman Cafe In Netherlands Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 9, 2024

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Google Ads will sunset enhanced CPC in March 2025. Google Business Profiles sends out broken appointment link notifications. Bing doesn’t yet use ProductGroup markup, but may use it soon. Bing treats 308 redirects like 301 redirects. Bing is testing a button for shopping results named “see details.”

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Google Ads Saying Goodbye To Enhanced CPC In March 2025

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Google Search Volatility Still Heated After August Core Update Rollout

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September 8, 2024

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It is like the Google August 2024 core update didn’t finish rolling out, or maybe something else is going on, because I am still seeing a lot of signals of intense search ranking volatility in the Google Search results. The tools are all still heated and the chatter within the SEO community is still pretty lively.

I mean, Google may have announced the August core update is done rolling out, but maybe this is the remnants of the end of the rollout? It can also be a totally different update that Google did not confirm? It is hard to say but what we do know is that many site owners and SEOs are still seeing a lot of volatility and movement in the Google Search results.

It seemed to have started or continued the day Google announced the rollout was complete. The movement continued from September 3rd through today, September 6th.

Google Tracking Tools

Just look at these tools, you’d expect them to calm down a bit after September 3rd, but most have not:

Semrush:

SimilarWeb:

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SEO Chatter

The chatter across WebmasterWorld, social and here did not die down at all. Here are some quotes:

G analytics is broken or this update killed my main site. Has anyone else noticed this huge drop today?

GA4 has practically been unusable for us. Even with just the basics. Traffic way down for us as well today.

Big drop yesterday and today looks terrible as well.

Someone could think that the end of the update was the update, cause just in time traffic got worse again, sales are non existent from google traffic. google user engagement is near to ZERO.

Traffic is ridiculously high since the return from Labor Day holiday for me. Search traffic is up 60% today at 1pm. Yesterday search was up 30% overall. Will be nice if that keeps up, but…

There’s been a lot of volatility here all day since yesterday. Moments of high traffic, followed by huge drops. Old pages receiving a lot of traffic, then disappearing… The update is definitely still active…

Something is going on for sure. The SEMrush Sensors still on a high range.

Like I commented earlier… Something happened on the 3rd of September.

Just when some of us thought we had a boost or was safe from the core update, Googlers hit the “Nuke!” button and now more sites got obliterated.

There is still something running. The traffic and serps are all over the show again. Many of our keywords are out of the top 100 again. Started 2 days ago.

Same here. 2 days ago I had many sales, which was very unusual. Now again nothing

I wrote earlier that there is still something moving around. We can look at 3rd September as the start point of this movement. The movement in and out of serps again.