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: Google Algorithm Updates, Domain Properties Replaced Property Sets & Google Ads Drops Average Position
This week in search, I covered two different Google search algorithm updates that touched down in the past 7 days. Google has discontinued Property Sets in Google Search Console but it is being replaced by Domain Properties... - Google Domains Have Automatic Verification For Property Sets
Google launched property sets this week in Google Search Console and one of the complaints is that you must use the DNS verification methods to get it to work. It can be complex but if you ask your "web guy" they should be able to do it easily. But if you have your domain registered at Google Domains, it seems to be automated. - Google Ad Grants Terms & Conditions Broken
If you want to sign up and use the Google Ad Grants, you might run into a stumbling block. Accepting the terms and conditions has not worked for a couple of weeks. Google has been trying to fix the issue but they are having a problem finding the source of the problem. - Google Moving & Closing Support Forums
We saw it happen with a number of support forums already, including the Google News forums. But now it looks like all Google support forums are moving to the new platform. The interesting part is they are not migrating content from the old to the new platform, instead, they are making the old platform read only and opening up the new platform for new topics. - New Basic Google Video On How Google Search Indexes JavaScript Sites
As part of the JavaScript SEO series Google is publishing, the first video is super basic and describes how Google indexes JavaScript sites. In short, they first crawl and index the page as is and then later will render the page and index the rendered page. How long it takes to render the page is not clear, how long it takes for Google to index your JavaScript page is not clear. - Family Guy Shows Bing Street View Car
This is funny, on an episode on Family Guy from a year or so ago, they showed a Bing street view car. It is on an old junky car, with cameras mounted on a bunch of branches roped together. It is pre
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Amazon Project Zero Aims to Drive Counterfeits to Zero, WebmasterWorld
- As it sounds like you already know, that doesn't make any sense :). That said some sites have gotten so pestered by folks asking for links that I can understand that they might get overly picky.… https://t.co/eTpU6jyRtB, John Mueller on Twitter
- Does Google CTR play a huge role in ranking?, BlackHatWorld
- If tracking in Google Analytics is important to you (yep, it is for most), then this post is incredibly important -> Safari's ITP 2.1 & Web Analytics "The impact on web analytics is brutal, depending on Safari's share of your traff, Glenn Gabe on Twitter
Search Engine Land Stories:
- Botify founder: Half of enterprise pages not being indexed
- The Kondo Method for SEO
- AMP user experience updates include video, lists, more
- Google Merchant Center to deliver real-time search results
Other Great Search Stories:
Analytics
- Google Analytics for Firebase Just Got Three Major Updates, Cognetik
- How to create a Weekly Users Dashboard in Google Data Studio, Michael Howe-Ely
- The ultimate guide to UTM tagging, Yoast
Industry & Business
- How retention helps make Google more representative, Google Blog
- Amazon, Google Fighting To Win $80 Billion Voice Commerce Market, IB Times
Links & Promotion Building
Local & Maps
- New Local Pack & Hotel Pack Report with Deeper Insights, RankRanger
- TomTom Apple CarPlay Beta App Update 2 Adds New Features, CarPlay Life
Mobile & Voice
- Google begins replacing full 'Voice Match' phone unlock, 9to5Google
- Google Duo for Google Home audio calls are coming, 9to5Google
SEO
- Are SEOs At Risk of Becoming Unconsciously Incompetent?, State of Digital
- Webinar Recap: SEO on the Edge - Getting Around Technical Barriers, DeepCrawl
- Embed code, social card, Href Lang, JSON-LD schema & Meta code generators - a complete list, Builtvisible
- Structured data: What it is and why it's key to successful SEO, Vertical Leap
PPC
- An Overview Of Google’s Responsive Search Ads, Authority Labs
- The most expensive keywords and how to bring down your CPC, Hallam Internet
