Product Prices Are Not A Ranking Factor – Google

In 2016, we discussed how Google’s John Mueller said product pricing was not an indexing factor. Google does not look at how costly or cheap your products are for organic search rankings in SERPs. They don’t rank more profitable deals higher in the search results. They don’t devaluate the rankings of rip-offs either. The cost […]

Google Says Alt Text is Just A Factor For Image Search

Google uses alt text as a ranking factor, but it is limited to image search. Also, it does not add any value for regular web searches. Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller explains this during the Google Search Central SEO office-hours hangout. Mueller fields many questions related to alt text, resulting in several takeaways about its […]

Google Search Console Will Now Display Event Rich results Errors for Missing Locations

Google Search Console's rich result report could provide you with additional alerts. These alerts are regarding event-rich results errors for missing locations through structured data markup. This is possible it is not able to provide an address. Google posted this update on its website. They said, "Google will start enforcing the requirement of a location […]

Merchant Center is Now Open to Link to Google Analytics 4

Google lets your Google Merchant Center account link to Google Analytics 4 property. In addition, Google added a help document that you can now “see your conversions using free product listings through the connection between your Merchant Center and Google Analytics property.” What’s New? Google has added auto-tagging to those of you who use FREE […]

Do You Know Why Google Doesn’t Crawl and Index Every URL

John Mueller of Google wrote an extremely detailed and transparent explanation on Google crawling pages. This reply offers an explanation of why Google (and other third-party SEO tools) do not crawl or index every link or URL on the internet. He said that crawling is not completely objective, it's costly and it is inefficient, the […]

Google Doesn’t Use User Engagement As A Search Ranking Factor

John Mueller said again that Google Search does not use user engagement as a search ranking factor or other purposes within Google Search. He further added, “Google Search does not know whether your website has high or low engagement metrics for users. Even if it does, however, it doesn’t use it to rank your site.” […]

Google Redirect Signals Takes a Year to Stick With Destination URL

We all know that if we place redirects, it should be at least for a year. This helps Google to have site moves stick. But what’s the minimum waiting period? How many months are too few, too little? John Mueller of Google said that three months for Google redirect signals to be in place is […]

AI-generated Content is Still Not of a High Quality – Google

For the past few years, Google has been saying that when machine-generated or AI-generated content becomes high quality. Google has guidelines in its webmaster guidelines against automatically generated content. Still, that guideline might change as machines and AI get better at producing not just understandable but helpful content for humans. To learn this in detail […]

Google Launches Search Ads 360 Integration for Google Analytics 4

Contextualizing data can help with better decision-making and more effective campaigns. This integration can also aid advertisers in saving time otherwise wasted switching between Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and Search Ads 360. What Are The Benefits Of Integration? There are various crucial benefits to integrating these two major data sources and accounts: Google Analytics 4 […]

Google Analytics UA Tracking Code Can Run Parallel With New GA4 Code

Google Analytics is rushing folks on Universal Analytics to set up the latest GA4 (Google Analytics 4). Why? So Google wants to move away from Google Analytics 3 (Universal Analytics) and replace it with GA 4. On July 1, 2023, Universal Analytics properties will stop processing new hits. You need to switch over to GA […]