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:
- Google's Gary Illyes On RankBrain Replacing Links & Other Ranking Factors
So the folks at Distilled wrote a piece "Google to Announce that Links are no Longer a Major Ranking Factor... - Google Opens Trial Run Ads To Search Ads With App Streaming
Google announced new ad formats and targeting options yesterday. The biggest item was expanding trial run ads to search ads. That means you can use app streaming feature for ads in search... - New: Google Analytics 360 Suite
If you go to the Google Analytics home page you will see a new section for the enterprise clients that says Google Analytics 360 Suite. It seems Google has replace there Analytics Premium platform and is replacing it with Google Analytics 360 Suite... - Google Search Analytics Let's You Save Dynamic Date Range URLs For Reports
Google's Zineb Ait Bahajji shared on Google+ a change in how Google generates the URLs for the Search Analytics date range based reports in the Google Search Console. Now if you ask for the last 7 days or last X days... - Matt Cutts With Gary Illyes At The Google Dance
The Google Dance was very special but to see Matt Cutts standing and smiling next to the next generation, Gary Illyes, is a nice thing. Here is a picture, taken by the head of Google Search Console,
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Google Posts are going to kill (at) local SEO, Andrew Shotland
- @DpanshuGahlaut Automated queries are against our terms of service & against our webmaster guidelines., John Mueller on Twitter
- List of Reasons Why AMP is Not Ready, WebmasterWorld
