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Google Search Console Recommendations

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1 month ago

August 6, 2024

Google Search Console is rolling out a new recommendations feature where Google will show you site improvement recommendations. These recommendations are based on the data in Search Console and aim to help improve your site’s performance on Google Search.

Google wrote, “We are excited to announce Search Console recommendations, a new feature that provides websites with optimization opportunities and suggests actions they can take to improve their presence on Google Search.”

Here is what it looks like:

Note that this is an experimental feature and you might not see it for two reasons:

(1) Google has no recommendations for your site (maybe you do perfect SEO).

(2) It has not yet rolled out to your site yet.

Google explained, “This is still an experimental feature, and not all sites will have recommendations at this stage, we’ll be rolling out this feature slowly over the coming months.” So it might take months for you to see it. And even when it is fully active, even “after complete rollout, we’ll only provide recommendations when we have a recommendation available for your website,” Google added. So far very few people see this yet in their Search Console account.

The Recommendations would be seen in the Overview section of the Google Search Console dashboard.

Google also said that the recommendations are updated on a regular basis, so if you see one today, you might not see it tomorrow. If you don’t see one today, you might see a new one tomorrow.

Just because Google shows a recommendation, it does not mean you need to take action on it. You, as the site owner or SEO expert might know better.

Google said these are the types of recommendations you might see:

Issues (something that could be fixed)

Opportunities (something that could improve your traffic)

Configuration (something that could make your work easier)

The recommendations “can help you prioritize your search optimization efforts, such as using structured data to help Google understand your content, adding sitemaps, and checking out trending queries and pages,” Google wrote.

John Mueller of Google was asked how this may help those sites hit by the helpful content update in September. He wrote on LinkedIn, “no, these sites are not treated in any special way here (neither more nor fewer suggestions). It’s very early days with this feature, some of the automatic recommendations will be shaky or even bad (hopefully very few though), but I wouldn’t want to exclude any site that’s having a hard time finding their footing.”

John also said he does not expect these recommendations to replace the current Search Console alerts, John wrote, ” I don’t expect these to go away, but I’d like to have them be a bit smarter. The problem with “1 out of 150291 pages” is that you might really care about that particular one, and it’s hard for us to know. We could guess better perhaps.”

Of course, the big joke is are these recommendations going to be as “useful” as the recommendations you see in Google Ads or AdSense.

Thanks Daniel Waisberg!

This is a super cool launch, one step in the direction of making Search Console more actionable and useful 💡 We’re rolling it out slowly, but in the coming months this will grow and flourish! https://t.co/H2To1SneP3

— Daniel Waisberg (@danielwaisberg) August 5, 2024

Here is one user that sees it but most do not:

pic.twitter.com/6vh237CkDk

— Ludvig Hoel (@LudvigHoel) August 6, 2024

Forum discussion at X and LinkedIn.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 6, 2024

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Google Ads To Require Gambling Advertisers With Games Certification To Recertify

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2 days ago

September 5, 2024

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Google Ads said that by November 2024, advertisers with the gambling and games certification must recertify or stop relying on the certification to advertise products in scope of the Gambling and games policy.

Google wrote, “In November 2024, the Google Ads Circumventing Systems policy will be updated.”

“Advertisers with the Gambling and games certification must recertify or stop relying on the certification to advertise products in scope of the Gambling and games policy if a material change has occurred since the certification application was submitted,” Google added.

If you do not comply, Google said, they “will suspend your Google Ads accounts upon detection and without prior warning.” Google added “and you will not be allowed to advertise with us again.”

Google advertisers with the Gambling and games certification must recertify or stop relying on the certification to advertise products in scope of the Gambling and games policy if a material change has occurred since the certification application was submitted.

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