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Google Sök ber om ursäkt för pågående problem med sökresultat på önskat språk

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2 månader ago

januari 26, 2023

Google’s Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, posted a message on Twitter and other social networks, apologizing for the ongoing issues and complaints with Google showing the preferred language in the search results. Google said the issue seems to be from mobile sites not being properly configured and Google’s mobile-first indexing being more widespread.

Google said, “We appreciate the concern expressed by those seeking results in a preferred language. This is a priority for us to resolve. We will continue to investigate solutions, but we also need time to ensure those work well.” We have not made any recent change in how our systems determine the languages of results to display. However, as we crawl more of the web on a mobile-first basis, issues may arise when we index multilingual content not properly indicating which version we should display.” Our guidance about multilingual content is here. We’re also further checking our own systems to understand potential issues or improvements we can make. Again, we appreciate the concern. It is a priority for us to address.”

Google also posted the message in Catalan because that is where most of these complaints have been coming from for the past month or so:

Entenem la preocupació dels que busqueu resultats en una llengua concreta. És una de les nostres prioritats i continuem investigant solucions tot i que requereix temps assegurar-se que funcionin de manera perfecte…. https://t.co/qzCYFXmfb3

— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) January 25, 2023

The issue has been going on for a couple months now, here are some older tweets Danny replied to so you can see yourself:

We generally return in the language used for searching and in settings, but sometimes in situations where two languages are widely spoken and understood, that can happen if our systems find info that may be relevant. But passing this on to see if there’s improvements we can make.

— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) December 20, 2022

Search terms: Giravolt patrimoni cultural
(all words are in Catalan) pic.twitter.com/JfXHm9hUKd

— Josep M. Ganyet (@ganyet) December 21, 2022

You can see another example if you search for l’oreneta festival terra alta. The first result is in Spanish and I couldn’t find anything wrong with the website -whose default language is Catalan

— Cinta Màdico (@zuruckzugehen) December 21, 2022

Recently, Danny posted a response to this:

As said before, we’re still looking into how to improve things, including helping publishers understand more about making use of our guidance in terms of multilingual content, which helps us in showing content https://t.co/UUfbrLQ3Ne

— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) January 23, 2023

Our documentation talks about hreflang, and we may be encountering some issues with content not marked up properly. But beyond that, we are continuing to investigate the issues being raised. We appreciate & understand the concern and are working to improve.

— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) January 24, 2023

Again, we very much appreciate the concern here and are actively investigating these reports. What was mentioned is one issue we think is involved; we’re looking at more. We definitely want to improve things.

— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) January 24, 2023

Anyway, Google is working on something but it does not sound like it will be a quick fix.

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Microsoft Bing Webmaster Tools API saknar en veckas data

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5 timmar ago

mars 26, 2023

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The Bing Webmaster Tools API might have a week of data loss, a data gap, if you will. There was some sort of issue where the API was not returning data after March 3rd and then after Glenn Gabe reported it to Microsoft’s Fabrice Canel, Microsoft fixed the issue but there is two weeks or so of data loss between March 3rd and March 17th.

Glenn Gabe posted on Twitter about this issue, first on March 17th about the API no longer returning data after March 3rd and then again after Microsoft said it was resolved, showing that yes, new data is coming in but that there is a data gap of two weeks with no data.

Thanks for reporting Glenn, business travelling back from SMX Munich, I will have the team looking at this ASAP.

— Fabrice Canel (@facan) March 17, 2023

Just checked now and the week of 3/10 is missing. Any way to get that back? Thanks again Fabrice! pic.twitter.com/Q8v2CfsCCV

— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) March 21, 2023

So as you can see, there is this two-week period where there is no data being reported by the API.

The Bing Webmaster Tools web interface seems to have the data, so technically, I guess you can export it and do some work to get it where you need it but you should be aware that the API may be missing this data.

Update: This was a week of data, not necessarily two weeks:

Just to clarify, that’s missing one week of data, not two. The week of 3/10 was missing when I last checked.

— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) March 23, 2023

Also, there may be an issue with the IndexNow WordPress plugin, but I am not sure and I don’t have a way to test this one:

Thanks @vahandev, we will have a look.

— Fabrice Canel (@facan) March 20, 2023

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Relationslänkattribut som inte stöds gör ingenting med Google Sök

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12 timmar ago

mars 26, 2023

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The other day, John Mueller of Google tweeted something true but sarcastic and it seems some took it the wrong way. He said In case you’re curious, the rel=dofollow works on links. The thing is, it could have been any rel attribute, such as rel=cheese and it would be treated the same as rel=dofollow, Google would ignore the attribute.

The only attributes Google would recognize and do anything with are the supported link attributes, such as rel=nofollow, rel=sponsored, and rel=ugc. But rel=dofollow means nothing to Google, Google will just crawl it like the rel link attribute is not even there. Occasionally I stick funny things in my link attributes just to see if anyone would pick up on it, no one does.

After John tweet this, he had to then come back and clarify, as to not set some SEOs off to add dofollow to their HTML links.

Here are those tweets:

Just in case it wasn’t clear from all the replies here, using an unknown rel-attribute on links doesn’t do anything, and since the default behavior is to use links normally, this just treats links like links. You don’t need to use rel=dofollow. You can, but you don’t need to.

— johnmu is not a bard yet 🖇️🖇️ (@JohnMu) March 22, 2023

Om du ville kunde du gå ännu längre och använda påhittade attribut, som <p cheese="”good”">. Detta kommer – tyvärr för roboten – också att ignoreras. Tekniskt sett kan du nu skapa en sida för att göra något med CSS eller JS med det, men jag vet.

— johnmu is not a bard yet 🖇️🖇️ (@JohnMu) March 22, 2023

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Google säger att Google Ads kan se en betydande resultatpåverkan genom att inte migrera till GA4

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18 timmar ago

mars 25, 2023

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As we approach the Google Analytics 4 migration deadline, Google Ads Liaison, Ginny Marvin reminds advertisers that some “advertisers could see a significant performance impact” in their ad campaigns if they do not migrate.

Ginny wrote this on Twitter, first talking about the Google Analytics 4 deadline, saying “the GA4 deadline is fast approaching. Universal Analytics properties will stop processing new data on July 1.” Ginny added, “that means new data will stop flowing from UA properties into Google Ads which could significantly impact campaign performance.”

The GA4 deadline is fast approaching.
UA properties will stop processing new data on *July 1*.

That means new data will stop flowing from UA properties into Google Ads which could significantly impact campaign performance.

— AdsLiaison (@adsliaison) March 23, 2023

Later, Scott Redgate asked about that, saying “for advertisers who are currently pulling in conversions from UA, and don’t upgrade, spend in campaigns like PMAX will drastically decrease if target ROAS/CPA is set (as system won’t detect any conversions). That could potentially have huge implications for Google’s revenue?”

Let’s say 20% of advertisers don’t migrate, and half of their spend is on campaigns like PMAX with ROAS set. Google prepared for a 10% haircut to top-line revenue?

— Scott Redgate (@sredg8) March 23, 2023

Ginny responded to this saying, yes, it can. “Advertisers could see significant performance impact if their conversion bidding is still set to UA after July 1. We encourage customers to migrate on their own now to be sure everything is properly transferred to GA4,” she wrote.

Advertisers could see significant performance impact if their conversion bidding is still set to UA after July 1. We encourage customers to migrate on their own now to be sure everything is properly transferred to GA4.

— AdsLiaison (@adsliaison) March 23, 2023

So you better migrate to GA4 by July 1, before it impacts your Google Ads performance.

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