Google search

Hyphen: Often, people tend to search for items with names that refer to different kind of things or with various meanings. This brings up the role of a hyphen. It helps Google to exclude certain words from search results. For example, when searching for ‘rose,’ Google search will produce results for both the flower and the action of rising up. In order to be more definite about the subject, you can search for ‘rose-flower’ and Google will filter the results that are not related to rose-flower. … [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. … [Read more...] about Google Search Console Crawl Stats Stopped Updating On May 23rd

Note that Search Console metrics can be aggregated by either site or by page (URL). This is configured in the Data Source creation flow, where users can select either “Site Impression” or “URL Impression”. To learn more about the distinction between these two methods please see the Search Analytics Report Help Center article. … [Read more...] about Google Data Studio Integrates With Google Search Console

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 changes are user interface. Although, there are probably a lot of hidden gems that I personally cannot see or play with since I do not have access. … [Read more...] about New Beta Google Search Console Screen Shots

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." … [Read more...] about Google Search Analytics Report Updated To Better Account For Lower Position Search Results