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Obekräftad Google-uppdatering som påverkar webbplatser för produktrecensioner den 26 januari

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2 månader ago

januari 31, 2023

Uppdatering av Googles produktrecensioner

On Thursday, January 26th, there were some signs of a possible Google search ranking algorithm update. The signals and chatter I was tracking, honestly, were not at super high levels. However, now that I see Glenn Gabe shared some really shocking charts of sites previously impacted by Google updates but now seeing a big swing. This is not necessarily a product reviews update but rather sites in the product reviews space that are seeing massive swings on the 26th.

Let me first share Glenn’s charts, which he posted on Twitter and said, “Heads-up, run a product reviews site? Google pushed something on 1/26 that, once again, impacted some product review sites HEAVILY. These are sites I’ve documented before with crazy surges/drops, even outside of Product Reviews Updates. Let’s see if this sticks. I hope it does.”

Here is that tweet:

Heads-up, run a product reviews site? Google pushed something on 1/26 that, once again, impacted some product review sites HEAVILY. These are sites I’ve documented before with crazy surges/drops, even outside of Product Reviews Updates. Let’s see if this sticks. I hope it does 🙂 pic.twitter.com/ZXa1r3xwcD

— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) January 29, 2023

Starting on the 25th, I began to see limited chatter kick into gear at WebmasterWorld. The chatter there was not specific to the product reviews update but it could have been related to it. Here are some quotes from there:

My site has been climbing rankings all week and yet today the traffic has been dismal (UK). Do I smell an update?

My ranks, as I said, have been getting better after being in decline steadily since this time last year. I haven’t done anything to improve. Could this mean that google are indeed looking at different ranking signals, not just links? I could have gained a link or two that has turned it around I suppose but no evidence so far.

After great improvement over the month of January, got a big bang down since January 24 onwards. Changes again?

Definitely, something is wrong with Google. My traffic is going down without any reason. Are there any delays with Analytics?

I don’t know what’s going on, but my website has been in free fall for a week now. And it’s the usual picture again, old news articles or meaningless keyword spam ranks in my area on the top places. It’s really no fun anymore …

Google Tracking Tools

Here are what the tracking tool are showing:

Mozcast:

Semrush:

Cognitive SEO:

Advanced Web Rankings:

So the tools are not lighting up but this update may have been something tweaked with the product reviews update, or a new update impacting product review sites or limited to those segments of websites?

Have any of you seen any big changes around January 26th?

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Google Kirkland Aerial View

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22 minuter ago

mars 26, 2023

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Here is an aerial view of part of the Google Kirkland, Seattle office. You can see that they have a tennis court and the net said Kirkland in it. I am not sure how busy this office is nowadays but it use to be pretty busy.

This photo is from Instagram.

Det här inlägget är en del av vår vardag Sök Dagens foto kolumn, där vi hittar roliga och intressanta bilder relaterade till sökbranschen och delar dem med våra läsare.

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Microsoft Bing Webmaster Tools API saknar en veckas data

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6 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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13 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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