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: Phantom Updates Are Core Algorithm Update
Google has been very quiet about what SEOs have been calling the "Phantom update." The Phantom update has been floating around for the past couple years now, and we've covered it multiple times here. In fact... - Google: Your Forums Are Likely Not The Reason Your Site Dropped In Search
Are you worried that your discussion forums on your domain is bringing down your overall domain's rankings in Google... - Google Mobile Search Adds Tappable Shortcuts
Google added a new feature on mobile search, including their iOS and Android search apps... - Google My Business Automated Ownership Conflict
Marissa Nordahl, Community & Social Media Manager, Google My Business... - Google Munich Basketball Court
Huseyin Savas shared a photo from the Google Munich office, showing a basketball and sports court in the center of the buildings. He said it was his "first visit to our new Munich office." Looks awes
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- "I think collectively we've probably saved users billions of minutes not waiting for their content to load" -- @rannazhou on AMP #SMX #11A, Danny Sullivan on Twitter
- @MDavidMartin Yes - blocking all crawling saves the most crawl budget :P. Luckily, most servers are pretty robust!, John Mueller on Twitter
- DYK exact match domains are not inherently bad? They're bad if their content is low quality or spammy. https://t.co/bD4779atMy, Gary Illyes on Twitter
- How to restart SEO after 10 years?, WebmasterWorld
- Meet the new Display Advertising Online Course Want to get prepared for the ..., Google+ - Google Ads
- What is Scandinavia? Exactly? Does it include all of the flags you see below?..., Google+ - Dan Russell
- @dannysullivan @gaberivera cc @googlewmc, Matt Cutts on Twitter
