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:
- March 2015 Google Webmaster Report
I try to keep the amount of content in these recaps as short as possible but this past month was pretty busy in so many different ways around Google webmaster SEO topics. Let's start with Google announcing new mobile friendly ranking factors coming on April 21st... - Google Norwegian Hreflang Language Codes NO, NB or NN
The hreflang questions are some of the most interesting ones I see in the forums because it addresses things across domains, duplication, language handling... - Google Testing Search Results Without Descriptions
I've seen lots of Google tests, including Google hiding the URLs in the search results... - Google Fact Rank: Google Ranking Web Pages On Facts, Not Links
The SEO community is buzzing heavily around a paper (PDF) published by Google named Knowledge-Based Trust: Estimating the Trustworthiness of Web Sources. The paper describes how Google can rank the most factually accurate web pages higher in the search results... - Google's Massive Mechanical Countdown Clock
Richard Hay from Google shared a picture of a massive countdown clock at one of the Google offices. This countdown clock was used at Google I/O 2014 and was counting down until the kick off of that e
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Best Practices for Driving Calls in AdWords For many advertisers, calls are…, Google+ - Google Ads
- Mobile SEO tool now has summary section http://www.feedthebot.com/mobile/ The…, Google+ - Patrick Sexton
- Take the Advanced Shopping exam today on Google Pa..., AdWords Community