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Google Search Console Links Report Shows Links For New Sites In 7-10 Days

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April 4, 2022

Google Search Console Links Report Shows Links For New Sites In 7-10 Days

Google Search Console can pick up external links to brand new web sites (if there are links pointing to them) within 7 to 10 days, according to Google’s John Mueller. Guess what, I verified it and Google Search Console confirmed spotting the first link on day 10 for my new site.

I asked John Mueller of Google about this on a hangout a couple weeks ago and he said “it’s more along the line, I’d say a week, 1 and 1/2 weeks” for the tool to show the new link. He said it is “not a matter of months” and “not a matter of hours like with the performance report” but more likely a week or so. And he is right.

I tested it on my new site, which I actually linked to in the Search Engine Land newsletter on March 23rd – I am surprised Google spotted it because it is not easy to find on the web (I guess Google is finding things on the web). And it showed up in the GSC link report on April 2nd, about 10 days later.

I also linked to it on March 29th over here but that link has not shown up yet. I will let you know when that link shows up in Google Search Console, so check this story a bit later on this week.

John explained this at the 9:19 mark where I asked how long it takes Google Search Console to spot new links. John said most reports in GSC are “recalculated every three to four days” and then there is the factor of Google finding the link during its crawling. So he estimated about a week or so.

Here is what he said:

I would have to ask the team. My understanding is that a lot of the reports in Search Console are recalculated every three to four days. So in terms of about a week you should probably see some data there. The tricky part, I guess, with the links report, is that we show a sample of the links to your site. So that doesn’t mean we would immediately populate that one link that we found to your site. So that’s something where I don’t know. I’m kind of curious to see how long it takes to get that picked up.

But it’s not a matter of months. And then, it’s not a matter of hours like with the performance report. It’s more along the line, I’d say a week, 1 and 1/2 weeks, something like that should be a reasonable time.

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And if you are wondering what my new site is, it is named Lucid Insider – it is not on SEO, it is about the new Lucid Air EV car.

Here is a screenshot of the link showing up on April 2nd in GSC – note, the link is not in a real story on Search Engine Land, it was just noted in one of my newsletter introductions about the benefits of starting a new site from scratch and relearning some basics:

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Google Hanukkah Decorations Are Live For 2023

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20 hours ago

December 3, 2023

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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!

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Google Pay Accepted Icons In Google Search Results

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2 days ago

December 3, 2023

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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.

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Google Discover Showing Older Content Since Follow Feature Arrived

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2 days ago

December 2, 2023

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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:

Google Discover Old Stories Follow