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Google Updates for Search Console API Infrastructure: What You Need To Know Google announced this morning it has been upgrading the infrastructure for the Google Search Console API. Google said this is an infrastructure change and that "API is backward compatible and there are currently no changes in scope or functionality." Google Panel Tests New Interface For Local Q&A Box But there are a few things to note. Changes on Google Cloud Platform dashboard : you’ll see is a drop in the old API usage report and an increase in the new one. API key restriction changes : if you have previously set API key restrictions, you might need to change them. Discovery document changes : if you’re querying the API using a third-party API library or querying the Webmasters Discovery Document directly, you will need to update it by the end of the year. Google shared a screenshot of what the Google Cloud Console dashboards will look like during this change: Read m...

Vlog #77: Brian Ussery On GoogleBot & SEO For E-Commerce Sites Brian Ussery is the Director of SEO at Razorfish in Atlanta, Georgia. He is also a Google Product Expert at the Google webmaster help forums. He has been doing SEO since 2000, we are both very old folks in SEO. We both were moderators at the Search Engine Watch Forums back in the day. We joked a bit about the early days of SEO and had a bit of fun there. He said he never spammed, he studied Google from an academic perspective only. He was always very big into writing better content, even in the early days of links being king. He never took the cheap way of doing SEO , he felt it wouldn’t last so he did it the hard way. He never had a site get penalized that he worked on, which is rare for an SEO vet. He is working at Razorfish, an old company, it was founded in 1995 and still doing amazing. After Brian kept making me go off script, we then spoke about GoogleBot. He said GoogleBot is very good at getting to ...

Google Search Console Performance Reports News Filter You can now slice and dice your Google Search Console Performance report by news content versus web, image, or video content. Google just added a new filter under the performance report "search type" option for "News." Here is a screenshot of this filter: Google announced this on Twitter saying " Now you can analyze traffic coming from the News tab on Google Search. Learn more about filtering data on Performance reports." Here is the help document with more details including that this news filter only shows you impressions and clicks from the Google News tab (not necessarily the top stories carousel). Note, this data started to fill on June 30, 2020, based on what I see in my performance report. Forum discussion at Twitter. Update: Now Google is sending emails to those with news traffic of the new News filter. It says "Google Search News tab data now in the Search ...