Google Responds To Crawled, Not Indexed Errors Saying It Is Just A Delay

Remember we reported that Google is investigating the reports around SEOs noticing a spike in the Crawled, Not Indexed types of notices in the Google Search Console reports, when in fact, the pages may be indexed? Google's response is that there are different delays in the reporting in Search Console.


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Yet Another Google Weekend Search Ranking Algorithm Update...

At some point, I should just report when there is not a Google search ranking update on the weekend. Because it seems like every weekend the tracking tools spike and the SEO chatter increases around some sort of update. But why so often on the weekend?


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New Google Help Docs On Titles & Descriptions With New Title Link

On Friday, as I wrote on Search Engine Land, Google has introduced two new help documents around titles and descriptions in Google Search. Most of the content is not new but there are new pieces in this content that are interesting, including Google defining the title link as the clickable link in the search results.


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Google Tests Query Based Google Suggest Footers

It looks like Google is testing in the Google Suggest autocompletion a dynamic query based footer. Based on some queries, Google will customize the footer of the autocompletion drop down, to show a Google logo that represents the query.


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Google Tests Short Videos On Desktop Results

Google Search is now testing displaying the short videos we spotted on mobile almost a year ago, on desktop search results. I personally cannot replicate but Brodie Clark spotted it and shared this screenshot on Twitter.


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