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 Drops Zero Results, Voice Search Buying, Flight Search Spam & Subscribe With Google
This week in search was quiet busy, we had Google revert the zero search results feature. Googleâs core algorithm update still seems to be chugging along... - Is Google Flight Search Spamming Google's Search Results?
Martin MacDonald notified me on Twitter of Google Flights spamming Google with links in their footers and potentially even hiding links to users but not GoogleBot... - Google AdWords Adds Version History On Ads, Including Their Performance
Google announced on Twitter and Google+ yesterday that they added version history to their ad platform so you can compare the performance of an ad before and after you make changes to them... - Google My Business Won't Notify You For Non-Sensitive Secondary Business Changes
Allyson Wright, Community Manager, Google My Business, wrote in the Google My Business Help forums that in order to send less notifications to business owners and Google My Business profile changes... - Google Tests More Results Button Again
Back in July 2017 and December 2017 Google testing showing fewer results on the search results page with variations of a button that says "more results" and so on. Well, Google is back up to those tests... - Google Site Command With Hour Filter Not Working
If you go to Google on desktop or mobile and put in a site command and filter the results to only show search results within the past hour, Google will return no results... - Eric Wu - 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. Eric Wu lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and two daughters who he loves spending time with... - The Google Home Mini Donut Truck
Did you know Google has a truck driving around the United Kingdom giving out donuts to promote the Google Home Mini? It is the Google Home Mini donut truck and it is very pink and delicious looking.
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Nothing has changed with regards to image sitemaps - if you care about image search, give us information about your images so that we can take it into account.… https://t.co/5nw6fLloaC, John Mueller on Twitter
- Starting today, you can send or request 💰 from your contacts—for free—with help from your Google Assistant → https://t.co/DFH1oB4SLU… https://t.co/5nRsaSucWE, Google on Twitter
- U.S. Digital Ad Spend: Facebook and Google Dominate, But Are Declining, WebmasterWorld
- Via @johnmu: Only use fetch & submit to index in GSC for situations that are critical (like a brand new site that Google has never seen before). If you're just modifying pages, then let that run through the normal organic process, Glenn Gabe on Twitter
- I'm not aware of anything comprehensive there - it sounds like a great opportunity for someone to take on! Fascinating to see so many different languages in one country.… https://t.co/FQfqOKxlMX, John Mueller on Twitter
