As you can see, the stars are not showing up but Google is now aware and the issue should be resolved soon.<\/p>\n
Why we care. <\/strong>All of these bugs can directly impact your traffic from Google Search. When Google resolves the bugs, it may lead to more traffic to your site from Google Search. In the first case, of the soft 404 bug, Google was not listing some pages in its search results that it will soon re-list after the bug is resolved. The second case, of the review stars, Google was\/is not showing review stars in the search results that can lead to a lower click through rate from the search results.<\/p>\nHopefully both will be fully resolved soon and you will see a positive impact in your traffic.<\/p>\n
Postscript: <\/strong>On Monday, at about 5pm ET, the review stars have started to return.<\/p>\nGoogle has confirmed it is fixing two search related bugs that impact what is shown and displayed in the Google search results. The issues are with review stars showing in the search results and how Google processes soft 404 documents. The two issues seem to be unrelated but are both being addressed and fixed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[32],"class_list":{"0":"post-4335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-platforms","8":"tag-platforms"},"yoast_head":"\n
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