Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
- Google Intrusive Interstitials Mobile Penalty Does Hurt
The Google mobile interstitial penalty began rolling out this week. It seems to still be rolling out as we speak but some sites got hit pretty hard. Glenn Gabe posted some examples of pages loosing ten or more spots in their mobile rankings because of their interstitial placements... - Google Mobile-First Index Not Launching Too Soon
In November 2016, Google began experimenting with the mobile-first index and since then, many SEOs and webmasters began thinking it is live - it is not. In fact... - Google Home Traffic Marked As Direct Traffic By Google Analytics
As many of you know, when you ask your Google Home a query and it responds, it puts the answer box into your Google Home app under the "related to your activity" cards section... - Google Jump To Links In Mobile Search Snippets
Google has had links within their search snippets for years, I think it dates back almost ten years. I just can't find the blog posts where I covered it back then right... - Picking Fruits Inside The Google Office
Here is a photo of Olya L picking fruit inside of the Google Tel Aviv office. She posted the picture on Instagram and wrote "and what do you do normally in the office?" It looks like oranges. I did
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Announcing Super Chat, YouTube Help
- January 2017 AdSense Earnings & Observations, WebmasterWorld
- A new guide to using audiences on Google Search in AdWords By using Customer..., Google+ - Google Ads
- Google My Business Analytics Have Arrived at Yext, localsearchforum.com
- Huge congrats to @Cloudflare for launching their AMP Cache! This is a big milestone for the AMP ecosystem. https://t.co/p31xeisfSt, Malte Ubl on Twitter
- The first-ever AMP Conf is in NYC, March 7/8 ⚡ Join us in person or on livestream to learn about the future of AMP. https://t.co/LbJxgLabVn, AMP Project on Twitter
- The Google Brain team — Looking Back on 2016 I wrote up a blog post about th..., Google+ - Jeff Dean
