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 Penalty, Google Shabbos Rules, SEO, Emojis, DMOZ & More
This week in search news we posted our monthly Google webmaster report. Natural News is back in the index after a rare public penalty by Google. Google offers tips on what to do when you close your site. Google Panda does take into account site architecture... - March 2017 Google Webmaster Report
This past month, we had a fairly significant Google algorithm ranking update on February 7th which Google did not confirm so we suspect it was a Phantom update. Then shortly after... - Google AMP Likely Will Inflate Your Traffic Metrics, Google Is Working On Fix
Christian Oliveira has documented an issue with using Google AMP and how it will likely inflate your Google Analytics and other analytics metrics. In fact, it can report four-times more traffic than is real... - Google AMP Report Shows Increase In Indexed Pages & Errors
Yesterday, for some reason, the Google Search Console AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) report under the Search Appearance section, shows a huge spike in both indexed pages and errors. The next day... - Google AdWords Tests Additional Description Field
Valerio Celletti posted on Twitter (hat tip @Gianps) a screen shot of a new Google AdWords test where they are testing showing an additional description field in AdWords ads to make the ad even longer... - Google Killed Off Their WordPress AdSense Plugin
Google has officially deprecated their AdSense plugin for WordPress this month. It is no longer available for new publishers to sign up for. So if you want to use it on a new blog or you are new to AdSense, you need to find a different plugin... - Google Moscow YouTube Safe Room
Evgeny Litvinchuk was at the Google Moscow office the other day and he snapped a picture of a large door with a red wheel on it, that makes it look like a safe room or bomb shelter or something. It h
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Competitors GMB Shows Up For Non Branded Searches, localsearchforum.com
- Dissapearing From Google Without Any Messsage In GWT, BlackHatWorld
- Google's List of SEO Bloggers in the Search Results https://t.co/80aIC23XHu, Bill Hartzer on Twitter
- Snap Inc. Trading 41pct Up, Valuing the Company at $33.6 Billion, WebmasterWorld
- Ways to Reduce AdWords Payment-Related Suspensions..., The Google Advertiser Community
