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:
- SEO & Google Fight Over How Google Treats Subdomains vs Subdirectories
We are now off the 302 redirects fighting and now onto fighting about how Google handles subdirectories vs subdomains... - Google: You Don't Need To Submit URLs To Us Monthly
You really never have to submit URLs to Google to index, you can, but you don't need to. The best bet is to make sure to have links to those URLs from pages Google already crawls and indexes... - Google AdSense In-Feed Ads Now Can Use Machine Learning
Google announced improvements to their native ads solution for In-feed ads. Now through machine learning, you can let Google figure out the fonts, colors... - Stone Temple's New Actions On Google For SEO Questions
Stone Temple and Eric Enge has put together a set of Actions on Google for Google Assistant and Google Home voice responses to your SEO queries. You can try it yourself by asking Google Assistant or your Google Home "Ask Stone Temple" followed by your SEO question... - Searchmetrics Beats Brightedge In Court Over Patent Dispute
Back last May, we reported that Searchmetrics US had to flle bankruptcy over receptive lawsuits by Brightedge over patent infringement allegations. It really angered the SEO community at large because Searchmetrics and the CEO... - Mike Blumenthal - The Search Community Honors You
This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series - feel free to nominate someone over here. Mike Blumenthal, 66 years old, which honestly surprises me, I thought he was in his young 50s. He lives in Allegany, which is located in rural Western... - The Google Bison
It has been some time since we saw a shot of the Google bison, espesially since we know some SEOs got their hands on it. But it looks alive and well. Gary Illyes from Google snapped a shot of it he
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- A new audiobook and a full bath. Soak it all up. "Hey Google, read my book." Find your next book on Google Play → https://t.co/b7wltfikzj… https://t.co/OcM0AvyW7j, Made by Google on Twitter
- Report: U.S. Spending 23.6 Hours Per Week Online, WebmasterWorld
- The Adwords System Will Automatically Create New Ads for your Campaign, WebmasterWorld
- Plans are coming along for ##io18..., Google+ - Google Developers
- Promise, we're working to restore order to the universe on this. Or at least the solar system.…, Danny Sullivan on Twitter
- Ready to meet our inspiring Doodle 4 Google judges? We are too! Until the big..., Google+ - Google