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 Community Is Heart Broken Over Matt Cutts Wife Passing Away
Matt Cutts posted on his personal blog some terrible personal news that explained his wife passed away this week. Matt never mentioned his wife by name... - Google: Content Publishing Frequency Not A Ranking Signal
John Mueller from Google said Google's algorithms doesn't give a benefit to a site that produces more content, more frequently than other sites. He said on Twitter, "a site isn't a machine that pumps out content at a fixed rate. Well, it shouldn't be :-)... - Google My Business Has Updated Local Photos Help Article
Google posted on Twitter the other day that they have updated the help document for the Google My Business photos page. The content did change and I have a before and after for you below... - Three Index Count Metrics Explained In Google SEO Snippets Video
Google has published yet another novice/beginning SEO video around what metrics Google has available to measure your index count in Google, i.e. the number of pages Google indexed from your web site... - Kevin Indig - 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. Kevin Indig is 30 years old and lives in Silicon Valley, but he was born and raised in Germany... - International Women's Day 2018 Google, Bing & Others Logos
Today is International Women's Day 2018 and the search engines are out there promoting the day. We have logos and themes from Google, Bing, Baidu, Sogou and others. Here are some screen captures of the Doodles, logos... - Google NYC Gets Snow
There was a massive snow storm here in the New York region, I personally got hit with 26 inches of snow and even the city here, NYC, got a few inches (normally they get a dusting). So some Googlers s
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- New YouTube Analytics Metrics: Impressions, Impressions CTR, and Unique Viewers, YouTube Help
- Facebook Ads reporting: is better demographic analysis possible?, WebmasterWorld
- New Rising Stars!, The Google Advertiser Community
- Search works fine without manual submissions, for awesome content. If you're just publishing content for the sake of having it published (and not to swoon users), maybe it doesn't need to be indexed?… https://t.c, John Mueller on Twitter
- Sounds like you'd be creating something that might be not worth indexing anyway. Remember that indexing is NOT guaranteed. You create great stuff, you have a good chance of getting indexed. You create not so great stuff,, Gary Illyes on Twitter
- When your site is awesome, you'll start seeing traffic from search when we start showing it there. Indexing isn't the end, it's just a small first step.… https://t.co/3YPKG3IG2V, John Mueller on Twitter
