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There’s now an official page to answer the question: “Is Google down right now?” Google is rolling out a search status dashboard that will inform you, in real-time, whether there’s an issue with crawling, indexing, or serving search…

Google has launched a new visual elements of Google Search gallery that documents some of the more popular search features in Google Search. Now we no longer have to guess or make up names for some of the Google Search features.…

I've been checking for the past week, multiple times per day, and just now, Google has launched the Chanukah/Hanukkah decorations for the 2022 season. Chanukah starts this Sunday night, so I was expecting it to come soon, and it is…

Google's John Mueller repeated it, the time spent on a page by your users is not a factor Google uses for ranking. Time spent on the page is not a Google ranking factor, he said, "It doesn't," meaning Google doesn't care about time…

Gary Illyes from Google said on LinkedIn that if your server returns a 500/503 HTTP status code for an extended period of time for your robots.txt file, then Google may remove your site completely from Google Search.This is even if…

John Mueller of Google said in a post on Reddit that disallowing Googlebot to crawl your site would not immediately lead to the site being deindexed. He added that "it would take quite some time for the whole site to drop out," and…

I always wondered why Google had status dashboards for hundreds of other products across Gmail, Drive, Google Ads, etc., but not for Google Search - its most important product/service. But that all changed today when Google launched…

Google has launched a new status dashboard, this dashboard is for Google Search at status.search.google.com. Google Search status dashboard. The Google Search status dashboard will show you if there…

You probably already know that your website’s coding can impact your search engine rankings. You know that adding snippets for SEO, like a meta description, alt tags, and title tags, can significantly improve your visibility to search…

Google’s new guide to search features visualizes and defines the various elements on a search results page. When you need help with SEO, it can be challenging to get the right answer if your question doesn’t contain the correct terminology.…