Google Shows More Product Rich Results For Pages Without Structured Data

Starting in mid-December, Google seemed to start showing more product rich results in the search results for many snippets even if those pages did not have product structured data on them. Brodie Clark first posted about it on January 12th (which we covered in our newsletter the day after) and Lily Ray and her co-worker, and so does Glenn Gabe posted screenshots of Google Search Console's performance report showing the uptick in mid-December.

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Google: Update Dates On Articles When You Significantly Change Existing Content

Google's John Mueller said it only makes sense to update the date on a piece of content or article when you either "write something new or significantly change something existing." He said this on Twitter and it goes along with previous advice John has given before.

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Google Rolls Out Black Bar Knowledge Panels With Links That Don't Work?

Yesterday, Brian Freiesleben and Khushal Bherwani both noticed a new design for some of the knowledge and local panels on the mobile search results. Google is showing a more sleek black bar for some of these panels. I personally can replicate it and noticed the links within the black bar do not work.

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Google Fixes Shopify Crawling Issue, Calling It A Temporary Drop In Calculation

Last week, we saw reports that some Shopify sites were showing massive declines in crawling activity from Google's Googlebot. John Mueller of Google responded this morning that this was "temporary drop in how we calculate how much we can crawl" adding these sites are in a "good state" and there is nothing to worry about.

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Massive Super G Logo Signage At New GooglePlex Office

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