Google’s Crawl Rate Setting Going Away Jan 8th

Google Crawl Rate Setting Going Away & Googlebot To Lower Minimum Crawl SpeedThe legacy feature to control how fast Google crawls your website is going away on January 8, 2024. It is a feature that launched 15 years ago but Google never migrated it to the new version of Search Console. Gary Illyes from GoogleContinueContinue reading “Google’s Crawl Rate Setting Going Away Jan 8th”

Google Testing Line Separators Between Sitelinks

Google Tests Line Separators Between SitelinksOver the past week or so, Google has been testing line separators between Sitelinks in the Google Search results for snippets. This feature test really gives a lot of screen real estate to those snippets and gives it a lot of space.The first person who notified me of this wasContinueContinue reading “Google Testing Line Separators Between Sitelinks”

Google Releases New Value Based Bidding Google Ads Guide

New Google Ads Value Based Bidding GuideGoogle has released a new (well, newish) four-page PDF document named Testing value based bidding using Google Ads campaign experiments guide. This document can be useful for those who want to test Maximize conversion value or Target ROAS bidding.The PDF is over here (uploading it to my server inContinueContinue reading “Google Releases New Value Based Bidding Google Ads Guide”

Google Merchant Center 3D Model Link Attribute

New Google Merchant Center 3D Model Link [virtual_model_link] AttributeGoogle has a new 3D model link [virtual_model_link] attribute, or at least new documentation on the 3D model link [virtual_model_link] attribute. This lets you provide 3D and/or AR models of your products for Google to display in search.Emmanuel Flossie spotted this first and the new help documentationContinueContinue reading “Google Merchant Center 3D Model Link Attribute”

Google Search Generative Experience Shouldn’t Show For Navigational Queries

Google Navigational Queries Shouldn’t Trigger Search Generative ExperienceDanny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, said on Twitter that Google probably shouldn’t trigger a Search Generative Experience answer for navigational queries. You can always manually trigger the Search Generative Experience response, but by default, it probably shouldn’t be generated.Danny Sullivan wrote, “I would expect Search Generative Experience toContinueContinue reading “Google Search Generative Experience Shouldn’t Show For Navigational Queries”