TLDR

  • Today's HDR Update for 12 Feb, 2024
  • 1) Google Drops Web Stories From Images & Carousel View & Updates Search Feature Availability
  • 2) Google-Extended Bot (Token) Does Not Affect Google Search
  • 3) Google Analytics 4 adds new dimensions for measuring paid and organic traffic

Google Drops Web Stories From Images & Carousel View & Updates Search Feature Availability

Google has clarified where Web Stories can appear in search in its new Web Stories guide. Google said that Web Stories would no longer appear in the carousel view of Google Image Search and that it has modified the locations of these stories within Google Search.

Source Url: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-drops-web-stories-from-images-more-36866.html

Google-Extended Bot (Token) Does Not Affect Google Search

Google has made an update to its Google-Extended section of the Google crawler (user agent) search documentation to change the references of "Bard" to "Gemini" because of the product name change. Google also clarified that Google Extended has no impact or effect on Google Search.

Google added this new line that reads, "Google-Extended does not impact a site's inclusion or ranking in Google Search.

Source Url: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-extended-seo-36865.html

Google Analytics 4 adds new dimensions for measuring paid and organic traffic

The platform now offers clearer insights into your traffic sources, both paid and organic, for enhanced optimization opportunities. Google Analytics 4 introduced eight new dimensions for tracking and analyzing both paid and organic traffic sources:

Source Url: https://searchengineland.com/google-analytics-new-dimensions-paid-organic-traffic-437370

That's all folks for the day from the Hocalwire Team. We will get back with more updates tomorrow!!

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