It’s Friday again!!! So that means another SEO update from us.

Here’s a list of the updates we have for you today:
1) Google Sports New Format for Search Snippets Tags/Labels
2) Google Discusses Way To Improve Job Posting Pages
3) Google Rolling Out New Algorithm Update Targeting Search Spam

2/11/2021- Google Sports New Format for Search Snippets Tags/Labels

Google is testing another format for snippets tags or labels in the search results. We know that they’ve tested several formats over the years back in 2017, 2019 and early 2021. Here are some examples below: 

2/11/2021- 
Google Discusses Way To Improve Job Posting Pages

Google posted a new blog post that they “uncovered an opportunity to improve your job posting pages. Google wants you to put more details in the description section of your job postings structured data.

Google added “To make sure users can view the full job description in the jobs experience on Google Search, review the description field and make sure it includes all information that you may have included only in specific fields (like the qualifications property). You don’t need to remove the more specific fields; just make sure that you also include the same information in the description property itself.”

This blog post has left some readers a bit confused by how it was worded but maybe we’re just overthinking it?

4/11/2021- Google Rolling Out New Algorithm Update Targeting Search Spam

Google said on Twitter “as part of our regular work to improve results, we’ve released a spam update to our systems. This November 2021 spam update should be fully rolled out within a week. We encourage sites to follow our best practices for Search.”

So we do not know if this update targets link spam, content spam, or other forms of search spam. Google is just telling us to follow the overall webmaster guidelines.

So rankings might drop over the week because of this update so keep a look out!

Well, that’s about it, people! Have a great weekend! 

Updated: 19 April 2024