Spotted: Google Note From Your Reviewer For Reconsideration Requests

No, this is not new, Google has been sending out these "note from your reviewer" notifications since 2014. But they are rare and maybe, just maybe, Google will be doing more of these in the future. Kristine Schachinger recently received one before the New Year and it was very specific on what the site owner must do.

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Google Search Showing Fewer FAQ Rich Results

It seems like Google has once again pruned which sites are eligible to show FAQ/How To rich results in Google Search. This started around December 21st and RankRanger's tracking tools shows the change but the Mozcast tool does not. Koen Knol noticed for his site that Search Console reported the drop on right after the December Core Update.

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Google Question Hub Is Open & It's A Great Way To Find Content Ideas

For years, Google has had a feature called Google Question Hub. It is basically a way for publishers to see what questions go unanswered in Google Search and then create content that matches those questions. It is a neat idea where Google allows searches to submit questions that go unanswered and publishers can then create content to match it. Now this feature seems to have been expanded to US based publishers.

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Head Bust At The GooglePlex

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Bing Webmaster Tools Performance Report Adds Crawl & Index Data

Microsoft has quietly added new metrics to the Bing Webmaster Tools performance reports. The new metrics I believe include average position, crawl requests, crawl errors and indexed pages. Previously, when this new report launched in February 2020, it had only clicks, impressions and average click through rate (CTR).

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