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Google has upgraded its Developers Page specifically for article structured data. This includes recipe articles. These updates are linked with publication and modification dates. Additional properties are arbitrary and are suggested if you think they are relevant to your situation. Google Structured Data Testing Tool won’t issue a warning in case you don’t use these properties in your structured data. There are realistic reasons why you should think about using them.

Images are comprehended more easily than written text, and Google Images are a major source to visually discover and explore content online. For instance, a picture of a peacock will be comprehended faster than the text P-E-A-C-O-C-K. Hence, exploring an image can be more useful than exploring text content. The Google Image referrer URL is a part of HTTP header. When a user clicks a hyperlink in a browser and the browser sends a request to the server holding the destination webpage.

Google would allow advertisers to use up to 90 characters for description in text ads, which is equal to that of responsive search ads. In total, text ads can now have up to three headlines and two descriptions.

Text ads has three parts: headline text, a display URL, and description text.

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Text ad has three headlines where you can write up to 30 characters each to promote your product or service. The headlines are separate and may appear differently based on the device someone is using when they view your ad.

Google Analytics has launched beta-testing for a new feature called Google Signals. The feature offers cross device reporting and remarketing capabilities. Google signals works to upgrade the existing advertising features, for users who have turned on Ads Personalization on Google. Google gathers the aggregate data of the users to estimate the across-device behavior of the user base. Google Signals gathers data on how the user deals with any online property from multiple devices. For instance, going through an Ad about bags on your mobile phone and later making the purchase from a laptop.

Google has enhanced the accuracy of Index Coverage report generated by Google Search Console. As per Google’s Search Console help documentation, Index Coverage report started shifting to a more accurate system on July 14 and fully shifted at the start of August.

Due to this shift to a new system, Google wasn’t able to record Index Coverage data from July 14 to August 1. Data in Index Coverage report between July 14 and August 1 is an assessment on basis of August 1 values. The Index Coverage report was initially rolled out to Search Console last year. It detects any page of a website which cannot be indexed while offering instructions on how to resolve issues. Site owners can also utilize the Index Coverage Report for submitting sitemaps. Data can be filtered by individual sitemaps.

Google announced on Twitter on Wednesday that it had released a “broad core algorithm update” this week. This update was launched after the search community witnessed shifts in search rankings and traffic.

Google Confirms Rolling Out Broad Search Algorithm Update

Google’s main aim was to distinguish between a daily enhancement which focuses on a particular area and the more important broad algorithm updates which have an impact on the whole algorithm. In its official statement, Google conveyed four major insights: