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 Has Search Quality Raters In Tons Of Countries
The Google quality raters are contractors who work to test and judge experiments in the Google search results. They do not influence the rankings but rather give Google's engineers more data points to judge how well the algorithms are working... - Google Structured Data Testing Tool Validates Multi-Typed Entities MTE
Brad Brewer posted on Twitter that the Google Structured Data Testing Tool now supports MTE, multi-typed entities. This can be used for the hotel schema markup said Brad. Here is a screen shot of the tool showing the support for the MTE... - Google On Negative SEO: Keeps Competitors Busy While You Get To Move Forward
We've covered the topic of negative SEO to exhaustion but hey, Google's John Mueller had a nice line about it this morning. Someone asked him what they should do now that their competitor started a negative SEO attack against them... - Martin Luther King Jr. Day - Google Doodle
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day - a very important day in the U.S. It commemorates the birthday of Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. which was on January 15, 1929. But the day is observed on the following Monday... - Google Has An Indoor Tractor
Olya L. shared a picture on Instagram of her at the Google Tel Aviv office sitting somewhere upwards of the 20th floor of one of the more famous buildings in the city. But she is sitting on a tractor
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Google Adsense Back Up Ads, WebmasterWorld
- Google Search Console Data Script Ideas, WebmasterWorld
- RIP Google link: operator, WebmasterWorld
