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 Core Algorithm Update, Google’s Zero Search Results & Image Search Captions
It was a pretty busy week with a confirmed Google core search algorithm update that happened last weekend. I spend significant time discussing the update in this video. I also discuss that Google is showing no search results on the search results page for some queries... - Google Promises To Review Feedback On Zero Results
As you know, Google is now sometimes showing no search results on the search results page - instead, Google is just showing answers for queries related to time, conversions and calculations... - Google Will Update How Search Works Portal
Under a year ago Google updated the how search works portal which is over here. Before that, it was launched in 2013 and was not updated that much since. Danny Sullivan said Google is currently working on updating the portal again... - Google Tests People Also Search For Feature On Cursor Hover?
Google may be testing a feature in the search results where the people also search for box not only shows up when you click back from the web site, into the search results again but also when you hover your mouse cursor over the snippet... - Google My Business Insights Heatmaps For Directions Now More Useful
Google My Business has updated the directions heatmaps, which they originally launched in 2014 to make them more useful... - Beau Graves - 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. Beau Graves lives in Payson, Utah with his family including his wife of 11 years (who he met when he was 18) and his two children. He is the SEO Cowboy and clearly a family man... - George Peabody, The Philanthropist, Gets A Google Logo
On the Google home page today is a very kind looking Google Doodle with George Peabody and children. The Doodle is not there because of George Peabody's birthday, that would be on February 18, 1795, 223+ years ago... - Google Office Has A Latte Machine That Prints Your Face
Here is another Google luxury at one of the Google offices. A latte machine that will print your face as the design at the top of your latte. This image was posted on Instagram and the video of it i
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Google seems to be rolling out review snippets to local 3-packs: https://t.co/hx6K96UXz3 cc:@rustybrick @mblumenthal…, Sergey Alakov on Twitter
- @rustybrick Found this little beauty in a SERP tonight. And not gonna lie, kindof excited to see emojis working their way back into URLs & SERPs:)… https://t.co/EeCkMfVLXb, ALGRITHMYX on Twitter
- I wrote a script to detect the HTML/CSS/JS features used by a site and x-reference them w/ the features supported by Google Search bot. IOW, avoid potential rendering gotchas before you �. Kudos to Puppeteer + @caniuse data, Eric Bidelman on Twitter
- Since so many people asked the last few days: a) yes, you can debug rendering problems. b) no, it's not crazy easy. We know that, khaleesi. c) yes, we have a guide: https://t.co/AoeecKs5xU d) no, cache: queries WON'T help, Gary Illyes on Twitter
- Are low quality links ignored? i.e. neg SEO attack. "In the vast majority of cases you can ignore that. We're really really good at taking care of the link side of things. There's always the disavow tool if you feel you need to, Marie Haynes on Twitter
- Are poor quality links being ignored? In the vast majority of cases you can just ignore, we are really good about taking care of these kinds of things. There always is the disavow tool. @NathanJohns #smx, Jennifer Slegg on Twitter
- E.U. Drafting New Regulations over Search Ranking Transparency, WebmasterWorld
- This sounds like an awesome opportunity to learn about making Google Assistant actions! Woot!…, John Mueller on Twitter
- I’m stoked to be having @JohnMu join us on /r/TechSEO for an AMA.…, Paul Shapiro on Twitter
- My Google Maps reviews have disappeared, Google Maps Help
- Not all problems can be simplified to that extent (a website with one link on it is somewhat artificial regardless of it's hosting). Our systems do understand that sites have different ways of being set up, we have, John Mueller on Twitter
- Voice Search - who cares?, WebmasterWorld
