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Google Publisher Center Gains Reader Revenue Manager & New Subscribed Content Report In Search Console

Google has launched some goodies for news publishers, including a new Reader Revenue Manager within the Google Publisher Center and a Subscribed content report in Google Search Console. Google announced this on Twitter saying, “We’re happy to update that Search Console is launching a new rich results status report, “Subscribed content”, to help Reader Revenue Manager publishers measure their traffic from Search queries and fix their structured data.”
Let’s dig into these changes now that I have had a day or so to play with them:
Reader Revenue Manager
News publishers who have logins to the Google Publisher Center will now find a new section named “Reader Revenue Manager.” This section should make it easier for readers to subscribe to your content using their Google account through the Subscribe with Google news feature.
In Reader Revenue Manager publishers can set up pricing and payment methods on how the publisher would like to get paid. You can pick between:
(1) Subscriptions:
- You want to limit access to some or all of your content (for example, basic or premium)
- You want to set a price point for content access for your known readers
(2) Contributions:
- Most of your content is usually accessible free of charge
- You’d like your readers to choose a price point that is comfortable for them
- You’d like to offer the option of one-time or recurring contributions
Here are screenshots of what I see here (click to enlarge):
Once that is set up, and you start to accept payments for your content – which I do not plan to do – then you may see a new report in Google Search Console for “Subscribed content.”
Subscribed Content Report
The new Subscribed content report in Google Search Console should be visible for those news publishers that have set up the Reader Revenue Manager payment methods, I believe.
This report lets you:
(1) Measure their traffic from Google search queries from Subscribed content to see how they are performing and
(2) Fix their structured data issues with your article content and Flexible Sampling and paywalled content methodology.
Glenn Gabe shared this screenshot of the report on Twitter, this report is blank but it would show performance and valid vs invalid issues with your articles:
Here is also what Google shared on this on Twitter:
We’re happy to update that Search Console is launching a new rich results status report, “Subscribed content”, to help Reader Revenue Manager publishers measure their traffic from Search queries and fix their structured data https://t.co/66ZP0DOwrJ
— Google Search Central (@googlesearchc) April 19, 2023
Forum discussion at Twitter.
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Google Hanukkah Decorations Are Live For 2023

Hanukkah (aka Chanukah) starts this coming Thursday night, December 7th. Google has added its Hanukkah decorations to the Google Search results interface to celebrate. Google does this every year and I expect to see the same rollout in the coming weeks for Christmas and Kawanzaa but for now, since Chanukah is in the coming days, we have the Hanukkah decorations live at Google Search.
Here is a screenshot of the Chanukah decorations as they look like on the mobile search results.
You can see it yourself by searching on Google for [chanukah], [hanukkah], but not yet [חֲנוּכָּה] or other spelling variations yet but it should soon. It looks better on mobile than it does on desktop results.
To see the past, the 2023 decorations, 2021 decorations, 2020 Chanukah decorations, 2019 Google holiday decorations, the 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 and so on.
Happy Chanukah, everyone!
Forum discussion at X.
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Google Pay Accepted Icons In Google Search Results

Google seems to be testing a Google Pay Accepted label or icon in the Google search results. This label has the super G logo followed by the words “Pay accepted” words next to search result snippets that support Google Pay and notate such in their structured data.
This was first spotted by Khushal Bherwani who shared some screenshots of this on X – here is one:
Here are some more screenshots:
Here is test and without test window for same query. pic.twitter.com/n9cYWBOsro
— Khushal Bherwani (@b4k_khushal) October 20, 2023
Brodie Clark also posted some screenshots after on X:
In continuation from the test from October, Google is now testing out a new Google Pay label associated with organic results. Last month, Google was testing Pay Accepted text, with this month changing it to Pay encrypted checkout. More details: https://t.co/MvFNoPmMDR pic.twitter.com/WDVVc4RbTO
— SERPs Up 🌊 (@SERPalerts) November 30, 2023
I tried to replicate this but I came up short.
This is not the first time Google had similar icons like this in its search results.
Forum discussion at X.
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Google Discover Showing Older Content Since Follow Feature Arrived

Typically, Google Discover shows content that is less than a day old, but it can show content that is weeks, months, or even years old. However, typically, Google will show more recent content in the Discover feed. Well, that may have changed with the new Google follow feature.
Glenn Gabe, who is a very active Google Discover user, noticed that since the Follow feature rolled out, he has been seeing content that is weeks and months old way more often than before the follow feature rolled out. Glenn wrote on X that “this could also be playing a role. i.e. Google isn’t providing as much recent content, but instead, focusing on providing targeted content based on the topics you are following.”
It makes sense that if you follow a specific topic and if Google Discover only shows the most authoritative types of content, it might be hard for Google to find new content on that topic. So it does make sense that Google may show older content more often for that specific topic you follow.
Here are screenshots Glenn shared:
Have you noticed this in your Discover feed?
Forum discussion at X.
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