Google Product Reviews Update #5

 Google September Core Update:

Update Name:- Google Product Reviews Update #5

Date of Release:- September 20th

Summary:-

• The Google product reviews update aims to promote, review content that is more specific and informative you seen on the web. Google said it will promote these types of product reviews in its search results rankings.
• Google is not directly punishing lower-quality product reviews that have “thin content that simply summarizes a bunch of products.
  
• This is not a penalty against your content, Google is just rewarding sites with more insightful review content with rankings above yours.

Effects;-

• September 2022 core update hit pretty quickly after the announcement
• This update will affect eCommerce websites slightly.
• Google Search Console International Targeting Tool Is No Longer Available
• Google has now officially removed the International Targeting report from its Search Console
• Technically, this update should only impact product review content and not other types of content.

Important points:-

• The September update looks much weaker than the May update from SEMrush
• As this algorithm is weak, there will not be much impact on the rankings.
• September 2022 core update resulted in "high levels of fluctuations" for eCommerce websites.

Latest Search Console Included Video Indexing Status

 Search Console Included Video Indexing Status

The video indexing report shows how many indexed pages on your site contain one or more videos, and on how many of those pages a video could be indexed. Indexed videos can appear in Google search results.

The report covers only indexed pages. If a page is not indexed for any reason (including being blocked or being a non-canonical page) then it won't appear in this report.

This video indexing report shows the below points

1) How many indexed pages on your site contain one or more videos

2) How many of those pages a video could be indexed

3) And Indexed videos can appear in Google search results.

1)  Using this Report we can Find the Issues like

No video indexed, videos aren't being indexed on your site.

video indexing issues

Large websites with many videos typically see a trend of increasing videos over time

2)  And We can Fix the issues like

"Invalid video URL" to show a list of pages with that issue.

Read the issue details and troubleshooting guide to learn how to fix the issue.

URL Inspection report. If a video was found on the page you will see a Video indexing section in the URL inspection results. If no videos were detected on the page, there will not be a Video indexing section.

3)  The following reasons prevent a video from being indexed:

i) Video too large or too small

ii) Invalid video URL

iii) Unsupported video format

iv) Unknown video format

v) No thumbnail URL provided

vi) Unsupported thumbnail format

vii) Invalid thumbnail size

viii) Video not processed

Note:

1) Fetching is not required for Video indexing.

2) Only one video per page can be indexed

3) A video can be indexed from multiple pages

4) Video Sitemaps and indexing, is not necessary, whether or not the video is listed on a sitemap.

5) Google was able to index the page as well as a video on that page