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 Says AdsBot Not Used For Web Search URL Discovery
Google has many flavors of crawlers from web search to AdWords to AdSense and app crawlers and more. But which are used for URL discovery to be used in web search... - Google Mobile First Index Seen In The Wild?
Last November, Google said they are experimenting with the mobile-first index but recently told us it isn't launching any time soon. But now some are seeing the mobile-first index in the Google desktop search results... - Google Maps App Adds One Tap For Real Time Traffic & Destinations
Google updated the Android version of the Google Maps app to add one tap to your favorite destinations within the app. The cool part... - Google Search Console Alerts For Recommended Wordpress & Joomla Updates Available
Yesterday, Google Search Console sent batches of alerts and notifications to webmasters operating popular CMS (content management systems) such as Wordpress and Joomla to update their version of their CMS if they were out of date... - Google AMP Makes It Easier To Discover & Share The Canonical URL
The big Google news yesterday was around the AMP team announcing that you can now easily discover, copy, and share the canonical URL of an AMP page... - Google In Wall Offices
What do you do when you run out of desk space in your office plan? Well, you embed new office space in the walls. Here is a picture from FDC construction of a Google office showing these offices emb
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- France: Facebook, Google and Others Tackle Fake News, WebmasterWorld
- Google Ordered to Hand Over Emails Stored Overseas, WebmasterWorld
- Phone Number Top of Site = Bad for SEO?, WebmasterWorld
- Superbowl Google Ad Turns on Google Home Devices, WebmasterWorld
- Switching protocols can be quite... a headache https://t.co/ZrMDsyOxsA, Gary Illyes on Twitter
- @rustybrick Has Google finally changed its font in USA SERPs? It's Roboto in the screenshot. https://t.co/lfIKgNJRE0, Sergio Redondo on Twitter
- Adopted all of our tips on video ad viewability and ready for the next step? ..., Google+ - AdSense
- Beginngers Guide to AdWords | AdWords FAQs, The Google Advertiser Community
- Digital Artist Teeps shares how #TiltBrush is a unique medium of art and what..., Google+ - Life at Google
- Is there a full list of product categories for Goo..., The Google Advertiser Community
- Smart sites go faster: Learn how to increase your PageSpeed for a better mobi..., Google+ - AdSense
- We were unable to authorize a payment on your cred..., The Google Advertiser Community
- What's the difference between the GDN, DFA, and DB..., The Google Advertiser Community
- Where can I find a list of Google Search Partners?, The Google Advertiser Community
