This week's update is about keeping live pages current without extra work. Refreshes now go live on their own after the quality check, and the weekly email only reports moves that are real.
New
- Automatic refreshes: on sites where we have turned on automatic refresh, a refreshed page goes live after it passes the quality check. A page that fails stays as it was.
- Nightly internal links: pages Google has not found yet get links woven in from related pages every night.
- IndexNow: Bing and other search engines are told about new and updated pages when they publish.
Improvements
- Weekly email: ranking moves are verified before the email goes out, and junk queries no longer appear in it.
- Title rule: live pages now follow the title rule of sentence case and 60 characters or fewer.
- Refresh quality: a refresh is edited in place, repaired before it is held, and the live text is restored if it is held.
- Sources: cited sources are checked again before a queued piece goes live.
Fixes
- Fixed refreshes being held for old failures instead of new ones.
- Fixed action lines in the weekly email losing their action.
- Fixed a page being reported as unranked after a single blank reading.