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:
- Search Buzz Video Recap: Bing Answers, Google Snippets, AdWords, Chrome, AMP & Search Console
This week I posted the monthly Google webmaster report, catch up quickly there. Google is now requiring AMP articles to have higher resolution images to be in the top carousel. Bing now has multi-perspective answers... - Did Google Search Console Remove The Request Indexing Quota?
Over the past few days, the webmaster and SEO community has been asking why did Google remove the quota number from the Google Search Console Fetch as Google "request indexing" feature... - Google My Business Wants To Know When Did Your Business First Open
Tim Colling posted on Google+ and it was also added to the Local Search Forums that Google My Business is now asking business owners to set the date they first opened up their business... - Google Chrome To Mark All HTTP Sites Not Secure - No Joke
Google announced any web page served over HTTP and not HTTPS will be marked as not secure by Chrome starting in July 2018. This is no joke... - Google AdWords Using Maximize Conversion Bidding May See Unusual Higher Cost Per Clicks
Google's community manager, Michelle, in the AdWords forum said there may be "some edge cases" where switching your bidding strategy from any of the available options to maximize conversions bidding may result in high swings and spikes in your CPC, cost per click... - Pratik Dholakiya: 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. Pratik Dholakiya is only 27 years old, lives in Ahmedabad, Gujarat... - Winter Olympics Logos & Themes From Google & Bing
The Winter Olympics are here and we got themes and logos from both Google and Bing. Both search engines will be changing their graphics on their home page at least daily... - Google's Toilet Paper Key Locks Are Cool
Even the keys Google uses to lock the toilet paper securely into the bathroom stalls are cool. They look like they are batman styled keys. Truth is, this may be no big deal but Eli on Instagram thou
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Twitter's First Profit of $91.1 Million in Q4, WebmasterWorld
- Facebook Tests Downvote Button, WebmasterWorld
- How might Google be handling link sabotage?, WebmasterWorld
- Tip: don’t forget to include brand URLs as keywords. Some people search for U..., Google+ - Google Ads
- What's going on in these photos? It sometimes takes a bit of searching to un..., Google+ - Dan Russell