Google has made updates to their Q&A Page content guidelines with details of do’s and don’ts. Google has earlier added the guidelines in December 2018 for its new QA page schema. Here is a comparison between the old and new updates-
Moz, the well-known SEO toolset has announced a new upgrade on the way it measures an internal metric which it calls “Domain Authority”. Domain Authority is a score which calculates a domain’s value based on its ranking on major search results such as Google and Bing. The higher the score, the greater is a website’s ability to achieve a higher SERP ranking. As per Moz, the upgrade, which will be launched on March 5, is meant to ensure a more reliable measurement by removing paid and spammy links efficiently.
Google has officially launched a new sign up process for businesses which don’t function from a particular location. Google allows business owners to specify the locations where they offer their services through search and Google Maps rather than offering no options at all.
Google announced that AdWords Express campaigns are now Smart campaigns (with improved features).
If you are using AdWords Express to set up your ad campaigns, you have an opportunity to have all the same benefits, but with improved features. Google mentioned that these Smart campaigns will put all your campaigns in a single spot, making it easier to track and manage.
Do you have quite a few pages which you want to remove from Google index without using the page removal tool for each URL? According to Google’s John Mueller, you can attempt 404 and noindex all pages which you want to remove before submitting a temporary sitemap to Google. According to him, this might speed up the process.
Google has launched its annual list of top searches across the world. This list also includes overall searches and searches for different categories. The top queries signify routine questions as well as individuals and events which received major news coverage in 2018. Google specified that particular events made people search how to enhance their day to day lives.
Google is launching its highly successful Shopping product in India. It will support product searches in both English and Hindi.
The Significance of Google Shopping
Google is introducing the Shopping tab to Google Search and creating a different Shopping home page in India since it allows its websites to draw more merchants and innumerable buyers.
On Wednesday, Google declared that more than half of pages displayed in Google search results across the world are from Google indexing and the content utilized in it. Therefore, there are high chances that the pages which you come across from a Google search are based on the manner which Google crawled and indexed the content on the page’s mobile version.