SEARCHENGINES
Google Says Search Query Pages Are Similar To Low Effort Category Pages

Google’s John Mueller was asked again about should you block your search results pages on your site from being indexed. The answer is generally yes, always has been, but John added that a “selected list of search-queries being essentially equivalent to low-effort category pages,” he said “but overall I’d block them.”
He was asked about this on Twitter where he also added “It’s not just indexed pages: every week I get mails from sites big & small who got spammed with queries & struggle to fix it.”
Here are the string of tweets:
Should you purposely allow indexing of internal search results pages?
— Bill Hartzer (@bhartzer) July 4, 2022
I can see a selected list of search-queries being essentially equivalent to low-effort category pages, but overall I’d block them. It’s not just indexed pages: every week I get mails from sites big & small who got spammed with queries & struggle to fix it.
— 🐝 johnmu.csv (personal) weighs more than 16MB 🐝 (@JohnMu) July 5, 2022
In some cases it might make sense to allow indexing of specific search query landing pages but in many cases, it probably does not make sense to do so.
Forum discussion at Twitter.
Source: www.seroundtable.com
SEARCHENGINES
Google Popular Destinations Overlays Google Travel Details

Google seems to be testing overlaying on top of the web search results the popular destinations feature and details you’d normally get in Google Travel. Previously, Google would show you a snippet and when you clicked in for more, it would take you to Google Travel.
Khushal Bherwani shared a video of this on Twitter of Google testing an overlay, I currently still do not see the overlay but rather am taken into Google Travel’s site. Here is his tweet:
↗️ Google added below things in Popular Destination pop up mode for particular state for cities.
Things To Do
When to visit
Where to stay
Flight details🆕 Looks like full pack of travel information.
📹 Here is the screen recorder for ref –
cc – @rustybrick pic.twitter.com/irFlxY8NvH
— Khushal Bherwani (@b4k_khushal) August 14, 2022
Google has been testing overlays a lot in web search on mobile. I guess Google rather keep people in search over those verticals?
Forum discussion at Twitter.
Source: www.seroundtable.com