Daily Search Forum Recap: December 1, 2021

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

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Google: URL Changes From A Year Ago Not The Reason For Your SEO Decline

Google's John Mueller responded to an SEO asking if he should undo the URL site migration changes made a year ago to restore the traffic the blog had previously. In which John Mueller said that his guess is the "traffic change is unrelated" to the URL changes they made a year ago.

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Google Doesn't Index Parts Of A Page Separately Unless It's Embedded Content

Google's John Mueller said again that Google does not index parts of a page - like the header versus the footer versus the main area of the content. Google indexes it all and does not index a piece or part of it. But there is one exception, embedded content on the page, like images, JavaScript embeds and so on.

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New Google Merchant Center Competitive Visibility Report

Google Merchant Center seems to be rolling out a new report named the competitive visibility report. The competitive visibility report helps you understand your competitive landscape on product category level and take action to improve your visibility - based on displayed impressions from your Shopping ads and free listings.

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Google: Links To Or From Small Or New Sites Is Fine

Google's John Mueller gave his blessing to the links on or from new and small sites. John said that getting links from small or new sites is fine and doesn't cause SEO problems. He also said that linking outwards to small or new sites is also fine.

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