TLDR

  • Today's HDR Update for 17 Sept, 2024
  • 1) Google Reviews Restrictions For Business Profile Policy Violations
  • 2) Google Updates Google Crawlers & Fetchers Docs With Affects & Snippets
  • 3) Google Search Tests Recent Posts Carousel

Google has reinforced its business profile policy violations by placing more restrictions on reviews. Businesses violating guidelines, such as posting fake reviews or incentivizing them, could face removal of reviews or even suspension. In other updates, Google has refreshed its Google Crawlers & Fetchers documentation, detailing how different crawlers affect websites and influence snippets that appear in search results. Additionally, Google is experimenting with a Recent Posts Carousel in search, highlighting the most recent posts related to specific topics or entities, offering users real-time content visibility.

Google Reviews Restrictions For Business Profile Policy Violations

Google has posted a new document about how it may apply restrictions to your Google Business Profiles over review or other policy violations. In the document, Google wrote that it takes "fake and incentivized reviews and ratings on businesses very seriously."

"Businesses that violate our Fake Engagement policy may be subject to certain restrictions if we determine violative activity on their profile(s)," Google added.

Source Url: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-reviews-restrictions-business-profile-violations-38068.html

Google Updates Google Crawlers & Fetchers Docs With Affects & Snippets

Google has completely reorganized its crawlers and user-triggered fetchers documentation. It used to be all on one page and now it is in several pages. Most of the changes were just moving content around but Google did add sections for what product each crawler affects and added a robots.txt snippet for each crawler to demonstrate how to use the user agent tokens.

Source Url: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-updates-its-google-crawlers-and-fetchers-documentation-38073.html

Google Search Tests Recent Posts Carousel

Google Search is testing a new recent posts carousel in the desktop and mobile search results. This carousel can show YouTube videos, TikTok videos, Reddit or other "hidden gems" of sorts. Both Brodie Clark on @SERPAlerts and Khushal Bherwani spotted this over the weekend.

Source Url: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-recent-posts-carousel-38070.html

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