August is typically a holiday/vacation month in the northern hemisphere as people take time out to recuperate, and to prepare for a busy quarter, and 2021 is likely to follow similar patterns. Black Friday and cyber Monday, along with many other regional holiday dates usually have an impact on business in the quarter, as well as Christmas and New Year.
Looking back at the past quarter of Google's SERPs changes has brought the usual shenanigans, and winners and losers. Traffic, and most importantly, conversions, is a goal of publishers selling services and goods to business and to end users. Here are a few of the changes worth noting in the past month or so that you may have missed.
The
Google and Link Spam: Qualify Links for Affiliate Links or Sponsored Guest Posts Update [webmasterworld.com] took quite a while to roll through, and it was probably a good four weeks or so of changes.
There were quite a few observations of note in our
Google Updates and SERP Changes - August 2021 [webmasterworld.com]
Also, there was a
Google Image Rendering Bug Causes Some Failures in Top Stories [webmasterworld.com]
Do you want to know how to control parts of snippets displayed in the SERPs
"Data-no snippet" How to Stop Parts of a Google SERPs Snippet From Showing [webmasterworld.com]
There was also a piece about
How to Remove Web Results From Google Search [webmasterworld.com]
Is it a
penalty, or the result of an algo change. [webmasterworld.com]
Google changing descriptions in the SERPs have been going on for years, and here's the latest on the changes in our thread titled
Update: Google Generating Page Titles on SERPs [webmasterworld.com]
Supporters forum (
paid subscriptions)
Google's NLP demo taken down and it's still available if you know how [webmasterworld.com]
Plus lots of other
Google search and SEO topics [webmasterworld.com], and recent discussion in other sectors
on WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]
What are your observations on the algorithm updates/changes to the SERPs?