A Sneak Preview of Google Search Console New Speed Report Beta

At Google I/O 2019, they demonstrated a new report in the Google Search Console named as ‘Speed Report’. It is currently in beta or experimental mode but they showed some screen shots of it in action. Here are few screenshots from some folks on Twitter:

Google tested a new report in the Search Console, called Speed Report which is currently in beta or experimental mode. But Google presented some screen shots of this upcoming feature. Few of them have shared on twitter. Kenichi Suzuki, Product Expert at Google, shared that Speed Report on mobile:

If you want to sign up this new Search Console Speed Report click here. This new report is powered by CrUX data, that gives you combined overview  of your website’s field metrics where you can dig down into specific issues and see specific examples. Dominik Schwarz also shared on Twitter some more screenshots and slides from the presentation at Google I/O 2019:

Ilya Grigorik, is a web performance engineer at Google, said in his tweet:

• Firebase launches (free) real user performance monitoring for the web.
• Search Console announced new Speed Report, powered by CrUX data.
• Performance budget (Light Wallet) support coming to Lighthouse.

See more details at at Twitter.

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GMB listing’s insight reports are delaying due to bug!

There are many users in the Local Search Forums are complaining about Google My Business Insight Bug due to reporting issues. They are seeing weird reporting glitches in the GMB Insights section. This is not very common to see these horrific drops or data glitches in the reporting tool, I think after Search Console Indexing Bug this is happening with all Google products like delays  in Google Ads & AdSense reporting.

Google My Business Reporting Bus Complaints:

I am checking monthly insights for clients. I am seeing what visually looks like an insight reporting bug for views, and wondered if anyone is seeing this as well. I am seeing it across several clients/accounts and across locations for my multi-location clients. There is a trough that begins around 4/5-7 and recovers around 4/12-14. They all look similar to this screenshot. Anyone else seeing this?

Ok, after saw these complaints, I login to my GMB account and try to get the insight report which is missing. Google My Business Page showing me data may be delayed. The insights data may be missing or delayed due to reporting issues. There is no impact on the appearance of your business on Google. Here is the screenshot of SEOBizWorld: 

 

So I called to GMB support and got connected with CSR. They informed me that they are working on the insights section to make is more responsive. CSR also said that the GMB insight report will be back and available soon. Not all the users are seeing this issue but many have their concerns about Google My Business Reporting Bug. Like I said in the above that it should be related to Search Console Indexing Bug or maybe delays in Google Ads reporting. So if you are noticing these issues so please share your experience here. Find more details at Local Search Forums.

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What SEOs & Webmasters Should Watch At Google I/O 2019

Google I/O 2019 is starting from May 06 and will finish after 3 days, May 09, Thursday. Google I/O is the yearly festival for developers, SEOs and webmaster, where they announced new products, APIs and introduced frameworks. They published an agenda for SEOs and webmasters if they are not able to physically attend that event.  

This event held once-in-a-year, but you can also see and watch the live streamed on YouTube including conferences talks, and cross questioning. Google shared all the links that will bring to specific pages that are most relevant for SEOs and Webmasters. You can watch each session of Google I/O 2019 event – as per Pacific Central time (California time). According to Martin Splitt, it is well worth watching if you are an SEO. 

List of Google I/O 2019 Sessions which is useful to SEOs and Webmasters

• Tuesday, May 7th4pm – Building Successful Websites: Case Studies for Mature and Emerging Markets, with Aancha Bahadur, Charlie Croom, Matt Doyle, Rudra Kasturi, and Jesar Shah

• Wednesday, May 8th10.30am – Enhance Your Search and Assistant Presence with Structured Data, with Aylin Altiok and Will Leszczuk 11.30am – Create App-like Experiences on Google Search and the Google Assistant, with Allen Harvey 11.30am – Rapidly Building Better Web Experiences with AMP, with Adam Greenberg and Naina Raisinghani 6.30pm – Unlocking New Capabilities for the Web, with Pete LePage and Thomas Steiner

• Thursday, May 9th10.30am – Google Search: State of the Union, with John Mueller and Martin Splitt 1.30pm – Google Search and JavaScript Sites, with Zoe Clifford and Martin Splitt

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Google Search Console Monitoring Overall Structured Data Performance

Google Search Console Monitoring Overall Structured Data Performance

Google announced at Webmaster Central Blog, that they have added three new reports in search console. They added unparsable structured data report and two enhancement reports including sitelinks searchbox and logo. Google introduced these new features in search console that will help webmasters and developers to  implement and diagnose structured data.

Unparsable Structured Data Report

Unparsable structured data is a new report that aggregates structured data syntax errors that prevented Google from identifying the feature type. Google said “that is the reason these issues are aggregated here instead of the intended specific feature report.” You can use this report to see if Google was unable to parse any of the structured data you tried to add to your site.

The report helps you with the following actions:

• Review the trends of errors, warnings and valid items: To view each status issue separately, click the colored boxes above the bar chart.
• Review warnings and errors per page: To see examples of pages which are currently affected by the issues, click a specific row below the bar chart.

Here is a screen shot:

You can check this report to see if Google was unable to parse any of the structured data you tried to add to your site. Below is a screenshot showing how the Unparsable Structured Data report looks like.

Logo & Sitelinks Searchbox Enhancements Report

This report is available under the enhancements section in Search Console, if you use the Logo markup or Sitelinks Searchbox. Here is the screenshot where you can find it:

You can read more about the reports in the Search Console Help Center.

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Is Google Search Console Lost Data Affect Your Website Indexing?

Previously I mentioned about Google Search Console Indexing Bug, which was confirmed in a tweet by Google and said that de-indexing issue should be resolved very soon. It means that the data was completely lost from April 9 to April 25^th, accept the performance report.

Here I like to share screenshot of data coverage report to visualize it:

You might be seen a huge up and down due to Google Search Console Lost Data, which could affect your indexing report. For example, if the data aggregation methods is change or there is a logging error, you might see a drop or bump in your chart. This page records known issues that might affect your data.

Google Search Console Lost Data:

April 9-25, 2019

Search Console experienced a data outage that ceased on April 26. The outage affected all reports except the Performance report. All missing data from April 9-25 was replaced with the data from April 26, when data began to be available again.

April 5, 2019

Because of internal management of our Search index, some pages of your websites might have been dropped from our index for a period of a few days without any action on your part. The matter has been resolved, no further action from your side is needed.

April 3, 2019

For most enhancement reports, data is now being collected from more pages than previously reported. Because of this, you might see an increase in issues and affected items/pages on these reports.

According to Google Webmaster:

The issue with missing fresh data in the indexing reports in Search Console has been resolved. The only report that still needs some time to update is the backlinks report. Thanks for your patience!

So it means that 16 days of data is completely gone for all report except Performance report. Now it is not possible to see how Google Search Console Lost Data can badly effect your website due to indexing bug from April 5 to April 25, 2019.

I want to say that keep mind do not add the stats from April 5 to 25, when making or preparing reports for your clients. This is newly added bug come with manual actions in the Google Search Console which was recently started yesterday in the afternoon.  See more details at Twitter.

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Google’s AI/Machine Learning Tool Demonstrates How Algorithm Understand An Image

Google published a new tool to analyze your images, which tells you what it thinks about the image is relevant for, by using machine learning/artificial intelligence algorithm. This tool is called Google Cloud Vision Image Analysis Tool, indicates AI and Machine Learning algorithms for understanding images.

What is Google Cloud Vision Image Analysis Tool?

Google’s Cloud Vision API is a cloud service that allows you to add image analysis features to apps and websites. The tool offers two computer vision products that use Google’s AI and Machine Learning algorithms, help you understand your images with industry-leading prediction accuracy.

This tool use advanced machine learning models, allows you to upload an image, and quickly classify them into millions of pre-defined categories. This new Google’s Cloud Vision Image Analysis Tool can detect objects, faces, read printed and handwritten text, and build valuable metadata into your image catalog.

Google’s Image Analysis Tools Classifications:

• Faces
• Objects
• Labels
• Web Entities
• Properties
• Safe Search

Faces:

The “faces” tab detects the facial attributes such as emotional state or wearing head-wear, but facial Recognition is not supported. As you can see when I uploaded my picture, which is clearly smiling but Google’s image analysis tool didn’t detect it correctly.

Objects:

Yes, the “objects” tab works perfectly and detect what objects are using in the image, like ears, nose, mouth, but also detects like portrait and photography.

Labels:

The “labels” tab extract information about entities within an image that Google recognizes, like jacket, material, smile, hairs and etc. It works very well.

Web Entities:

This ‘Web’ tab detects web references to an image, which means it shows how much images are related on the web. Google’s Cloud Vision Image Analysis Tool uses multiple criteria for understanding an image.

Properties

The Image Properties tab detects general attributes of the image, such as dominant color.

Safe Search:

Safe Search tab detects how the image explicit content such as adult content or violent content within an image. This feature uses five categories (“adult”, “spoof”, “medical”, “violence”, and “racy”), and returns the likelihood that each is present in a given image.

Summary:

This is an amazing Image Analysis Tool for getting an idea that how Google understand your images. It may also helpful for you to optimize the images in the better ways.

Want to know what Google thinks about your image? Find out here at https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/drag-and-drop

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Google AdSense Notification: Payment Amount Higher Than Your Chosen Form of Payment

Last day, there are so many Google AdSense publishers got noticed and received notifications in the AdSense console that “Your payment amount is higher than your chosen form of payment.” Those publishers are now confused and don’t know what to do with that. I personally checked that there are tons of complaints from publishers.

I can’t mention all those complaints here in the blog post, but few of them here:

“Your payout amount is more than your chosen form of payment can accept in your country. I have selected Western Union as my primary payment method. I’m getting payment from last 5 years through Western Union. Pending payment of previous month is just $350 but suddenly i got this error message at my google adsense account that “Your payout amount is more than your chosen form of payment can accept in your country. To continue getting paid please choose a new payment method.”

“I got an email saying: Your payment method details for Google AdSense were changed on 17 Apr 2019. For your security, please review this change and contact us if you have any questions. I didn’t change anything and when I logged things look normal so I am not sure what they’re talking about? Can someone please explain since i am worried for security of my account.”

Screenshots of Google AdSense Payment Notification

Here are some replies:

I am seeing that mostly issues are coming from Pakistan and India, especially those who are using Western Union as primary payment method. I will advise to publishers that keep monitor your bank account, payment modes, Google Adsense Console and actively participate in the AdSense forum and highlighted the issues. For more details check the Google AdSense Community (Payment).

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Google Supports AMP Pages for Publishers

Google announced in official blog post for support AMP pages in web search results also known as “blue links” powered by signed exchanges, which means publishers can use their own domain when content is fully loaded in Google search. Currently Google Support AMP Pages for Publishers only in chrome browser, but they are planning to expand availability for other browsers that support the necessary web platform features.

Here is how it looks like:

What Is Signed Exchange?

Google explained that signed exchange is a file format, defined in the web packaging specifications that allows the browser to trust on a document, if it is belongs to your origin. This allows you to use first-party cookies and storage to customize content and simplify analytics integration.

Your page appears under your URL instead of the google.com/amp URL. Google links to signed exchanges when the publisher, browser, and the Search experience context all support it. As a publisher, you will need to publish both the signed exchange version of the content in addition to the non-signed exchange version.

Why Google Supports AMP Pages for Publishers?

AMP stands for “Accelerated Mobile Pages” and you can find that AMP pages load more faster and look simpler rather than regular web pages. For end users it very confusing when they see https://google.com/amp/ instead of an real publisher URLs, due to Google’s cache AMP pages served like that. But now Google is trying to split the difference between the openness of the web and the safe, controlled nature of those other standards.

As a content publisher, it seems like when you register an SSL certificate, you register your signed exchange with a provider, CloudFlare partnered with Google to provide some serious benefits to sites which use AMP. The more modern browsers can then look up the AMP cache URLs to see if they have a match in the registry and then show the defined URL by the publisher.

To find out more about AMP, check out ampproject.org.

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Google Search Console Indexing Bug

Google Search Console is still working on the de-indexing issue which was reported on last week. Due to this indexing bug, enhancement and coverage reports, as well as the URL Inspection tool, still impacted according to Google. It seems like this Search Console Indexing Bug is spreading like a virus to other parts of Google.

Google confirmed in a tweet that they are working on it, if you discover a URL is not included, so you can also use the URL Inspector tool to resubmit that page. As you can see, in the reply I said that Old Search Console was better than this new one.

Many SEOs and site owners noticed their index coverage and enhancement reports have not been updated in the Search Console. Last weekend, I saw huge drops in my client’s website indexed pages in the coverage report.

Here is a screen shot:

According to Google, they are recovering on this Search Console Indexing Bug issue but no time frame because it is taking a lot of time. It means that index coverage and enhancement reports were not updated recently and URL Inspector might not reflect live status. Google said that “they will officially update us when it will resolve, if you need to check the status of a URL in the Google index, use the site: command”.

If you find the pages are still missing from Google’s index after used ‘site search’ command, then it is possible the issue is specifically to your site. You can submit that site-specific issues by submitting a thread to Google’s webmaster community message board.

Google Search Console Indexing Bug Quick Review:

Here’s a quick review on what has happened and what is going on with the Google’s Search Console indexing bug:

• On April 4, SEOs and site owners started reporting that a huge amount of their site’s pages were missing from Google’s index.
• On April 6, Google’s John Mueller confirmed there’s a technical issue affecting the search index which will be resolved.
• Google posted updates on Twitter in the last week and keep everyone informed as to what was going on.
• On April 10, Google tweet that the issue was resolved in search results.

But last day, April 15, Google confirmed that the Search Console reports and tools are having issues. I think after indexing bug issue resolved, it should be the biggest Google indexing problem of 2019.

Forum discussion on Twitter and WebmasterWorld.

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Google Published New Guide for Linking Google Analytics and Google Ads

Google published new guide for linking Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts that can get you deeper insights, smarter campaigns, and enable you to earn better business outcomes. In this new guide you can learn how to link both Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts and see the full customer cycle, from how they interact with your marketing ads and complete the goals that you’ve set for them on your site.

Why Link Google Ads and Analytics Accounts?

When you link Google Ads and Analytics, you can:

• See ad and site performance data in the Google Ads reports in Analytics.
• Import Analytics goals and Ecommerce transactions into your Google Ads account.
• Import cross-device conversions into your Google Ads account when you activate Google signals.
• Import Analytics metrics like Bounce Rate, Avg. Session Duration, and Pages/Session into your Google Ads account.
• Enhance your Google Ads remarketing with Analytics Remarketing and Dynamic Remarketing.
• Get richer data in the Analytics Multi-Channel Funnels reports.

Google published new guide because the rise of mobile devices and new digital technologies has resulted in customer journeys that are more varied than ever. With the help of this guide you can use your Analytics data to make your ad more specific, reach target audience and maximizing ad response based on location, device, browser and page depth insights, among other data points.

According to Google, in this new guide you will find a clear, step-by-step playbook to unlock deeper insights and create smarter campaigns. You can see that how the advanced measurement capabilities in Analytics can offer a clear and specific understanding of campaign performance.

It included that how you can select audiences in Analytics and share with Google Ads, also Import your Google Analytics data into your ads flow, along with improved reporting options based on increased data insights.

There are some other interesting features  if you’re thinking of using Google Ads, it’s definitely worth checking out the guide and considering your options for improved data tracking. The more data the better, and with so many actions can be track, makes sense to dig into them and improve your ad performance.

You can download the full “Linking Analytics and Ads: The Solution to Today’s Marketing Challenges” guide here.

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