Google Search Profiles Connect Publisher Content and Followers
Google Search profiles can gather a publisher’s articles, videos and social posts and add a follow action. Initial eligibility and control remain limited.
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Google Search profiles can gather a publisher’s articles, videos and social posts and add a follow action. Initial eligibility and control remain limited.
Google’s August 2026 spam update ran globally from August 18 to August 21. A traffic change in that window is a clue, not a diagnosis.
A decision matrix for Google regional search features, now including local-business queries in EEA aggregator and supplier units.
Check the site name, title link and homepage signals before editing schema. Use a worked JSON-LD example and download the name-consistency audit worksheet.
Keep sitemap URLs stable and audit real freshness. Compare child locations, page changes and cached responses with a downloadable two-snapshot worksheet.
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Kagi added a preference to remove paywalled links from results. Publishers need a matched on/off test before blaming crawling, indexing, ranking, or the filter.
Google now names seven supported Search favicon formats. Use this audit to separate file eligibility, crawl access, hostname scope, URL stability, and actual display.
Google says GPT will refresh actively viewed ad slots after a bfcache return beginning September 8. This test plan separates the documented default, the opt-out, and the behavior a publisher can actually observe.
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