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Google Search Console's Links report has not received fresh data since August 8, 2026 — a full month without updates. Google's status dashboard shows no incidents, leaving SEOs without critical backlink monitoring data.
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Google is testing a new anti-scraping measure in Search that shows a grayed-out Continue button before verifying the user is human, without requiring sign-in.
Ranking drops after a migration usually come from status codes and redirect chains, not content. Take a baseline before the migration, re-check 24–72 hours after — one batch check covers up to 20 URLs, hop by hop, from both Googlebot and browser views.
Before paying for or exchanging a backlink, verify the domain is still being indexed by Google. A 10-second freshness check (site: + time filter) screens out links that still open but carry no signal.
A ready-to-run Codex skill that composes every installed codex-seo-* skill into one audited site: probes the site, inventories the skills, runs each single-URL scanner, builds the weighted 7-category board, writes the report artifacts - and withholds the health score when any category has no measured source.
Google's favicon documentation now explicitly lists supported file formats for Search results. SVG is not included in the supported list.
A Codex skill that reads robots.txt sitemap declarations, probes common paths, and validates XML, limits, lastmod, deprecated tags and target URL statuses in one pass.
Audit image SEO on any page in about a minute: alt text, file size, format, responsive markup, lazy loading, and CLS — with a full Codex SKILL.md included.
Install a Codex skill that runs a nine-category technical SEO audit, scoring crawlability, indexability, security, Core Web Vitals, and more, and returns a prioritized action plan you can verify next week.
Install a 20-skill SEO operating system into Codex in under ten minutes. This first article explains how Codex skills work, gives you the readiness check, and maps the full series.
Google's goto passthrough links hide the destination URL in search results. Detect them, resolve tokens safely, and verify your rank-tracking pipeline in about 30 minutes.
Google is replacing direct result URLs with google.com/goto server-side redirects across its search results, a change confirmed by a Google spokesperson and observed at near-complete rollout by SEO tooling providers.
SEO professionals report a sharp drop in PDF file visibility in Google Search results, affecting government forms, whitepapers, and other document types. Google has not commented.