Pokémon Go & The iPhone 7 outranked Donald Trump,Prince
& Powerball in 2016!
The results are in, Google has released a variety of its top search trends for 2016 ranking everything from top searches overall to the most searched people and global news stories throughout the year.
The most popular search on Google in 2016 was Pokémon Go, followed by iPhone 7 and Donald Trump. The No. 1 search term hit its peak however in July at the height of the Pokémon Go phenomena.
Prince’s sudden death on April 21 pushed the pop artist into the top five most searched terms for the year. “Powerball” also made the top five after the biggest lottery drawing in US history happened back in January of 2016.
Google has released nine global search trends lists — ranking everything from the top searches overall to the most searched people and global news stories.
The top 10 most popular search terms across the globe involved a mix of tech trends, famous people, movies and 2016 news events.
1st place goes to: Pokémon Go
2nd place to: iPhone 7
3rd place goes to: Donald Trump
4th place goes to: Prince
5th place goes to: Powerball
6th place goes to: David Bowie
7th place goes to: Deadpool
8th place goes to: Olympics
9th place goes to: Slither.io
10th place went to: Suicide Squad
Google Search Console just got a lot better.
Google has announced that the Google Search Console now has more reporting options for your property sets.
Property sets is Google’s way of allowing you to combine different profiles in Google Search Console into one report. When it first launched several months ago, it basically let you view the Search Analytics report for all the properties you combine with the property set.
But you couldn’t see many of the other reports within the Google Search Console. Now you can. With this update you can see mobile usability report, review your AMP implementation, double-check rich cards or hreflang/internationalisation markup and more.
Plus, “you can now just add any verified properties to a set,” Google added.
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SEO NEWS:
Great News for all Sitemap fans as Bing & Google decide to increase the file size limit of Sitemap files moving forward.
Whilst the 50,000 URL limit has not changed at all, the good news is that your Sitemap file size can now be up to a whopping 50MB.
Google and Bing announced jointly that they have increased the file size limit of Sitemaps files from 10MB to 50MB. That means the uncompressed version must now be under 50MB, no longer under 10MB.
Fabrice Canel, principal program manager at Bing, said,
“While most sitemaps are under this 10 MB file limit, these days, our systems occasionally encounter sitemaps exceeding this limit.Most often this is caused when sitemap files list very long URLs or if they have attributes listing long extra URLs (as alternate language URLs, Image URLs, etc), which inflates the size of the sitemap file.”
The 50,000 URL limit per Sitemaps file has not changed; you can still only have up to 50,000 URLs in a single Sitemap file. But the file size has increased significantly.
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