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Google is a search engine that millions of people around the world use day in day out for various reasons, such as research for business people and students, entertainment amongst other reasons. To fully utilize Google searches, different essential tips ought to be at your fingertips. Outlined below are a few tips by Redshed. Tabs: The first and the foremost tip is regarding the tabs that are usually displayed in every search which are currently; Image, Web, News, and More. These tabs are meant to aid you in deciding what kind of search you require; whether its Images, Web sites, or even News. News will be displayed when you select the News tab; websites will be represented on the selection of Web tab and images on the Image tab. These tabs are there to help you save time during your exploration, and they may be beneficial if fully utilized. Quotation marks: Sometimes, you may want to search for a specific item. To improve the search results, you may try using quotation marks when … [Read more...] about Useful Tips for Better Google Searches in 2018

If you try to check your Google Search Console report for crawl stats, you may notice that the report has not been updated for about a week. The last data you can get is from back on May 23rd. There are several reports of this in the Google Webmaster Help.Here is a screen shot:It is not uncommon for these reports to get stuck and stop updating until Google fixes something on their end.I wouldn't be nervous or scared that there is something wrong with your site, this looks like a widespread reporting bug.Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help. … [Read more...] about Google Search Console Crawl Stats Stopped Updating On May 23rd

Google announced on the Google Analytics blog that Google Data Studio, Google's free toolset to build custom reports, now has a connector with Google Search Console.Google added a new "Data Studio connector for Search Console," Google said. "With this launch users can pull their data into Data Studio to build reports that include impressions, clicks, and average position broken out by keyword, date, country, and device," Google added.Search Console users can now build Data Studio reports to understand how their search traffic changes over time, where traffic is coming from, and what search queries are most likely to drive traffic to their sites. Users can also filter reports for mobile traffic to improve mobile targeting, and to analyze clickthrough rates for various organic search terms.As always, Data Studio report creators can add components from other data sources into a single report. With this new connector, users can use the Search Console and AdWords connectors to compare … [Read more...] about Google Data Studio Integrates With Google Search Console

Last night on Search Engine Land I shared screen shots of the new beta version of the Google Search Console. Alan Bleiweiss sent us the screen shots of the new design.The new design is not a surprise, Google has been hinting at it for a year or so. The new design looks a lot like the new mobile friendly testing tool that came out several months ago. We also know Google recruited an advisory board to review the new design and other feature.Truth is, you may be able to see the new design yourself. To see if you have access, go to https://search.google.com/search-console/. I personally do not have access, so I get a 404 page when I go there.Since Alan shared the screens, I received a couple more details. Such as the URL above and here is the navigation bar of the new design:You can see there are fewer items in the navigation bar, way fewer. I only see status, issues, growth, update Google and settings. It is unclear what they all do, but with Alan's screen, it seems like most of the … [Read more...] about New Beta Google Search Console Screen Shots

The other day, I reported that many webmasters were noticing a decline in their average position metrics in the Google Search Console Search Analytics report. We thought it was a bug, but Google has now told us it is a feature change. Going forward from July 14, 2017, the metrics may look different because of how Google measures the search results in the lower positions. Google updated the data anomalies page to say they made an "incremental improvement in Google's logging system now provides better accounting for results in lower positions." Google explained that "this change might cause increase in impressions, but also a decrease in average positions."Of course, with any of these reporting changes, it has zero impact on your real rankings. Google explained "this change only effects Search Console reporting, not your actual performance on Google Search."Gary Illyes from Google posted the news on Twitter adding "we've updated the product updates help center article with some … [Read more...] about Google Search Analytics Report Updated To Better Account For Lower Position Search Results