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:
- New: Google Rich Results For Podcasts
Google has quietly added new rich results markup for podcasts in the developer center. Aaron Bradley seemed to have first spotted this and posted it on Google+ saying that "a new data type has appeared in the Google reference library of structured data types: podcasts... - Google May Add Voice Search Filters To Search Console Analytics
With Google Home, Google Assistant and more people using voice search on Google, webmasters want to know what voice search queries Google is using to show their site, potentially as a featured snippet or more... - Google: No Links To A URL? Then We Won't Find It.
Google's John Mueller posted a reply on Twitter saying that if there are no links to a specific URL, then Google won't find the URL. Of course, the exception here is the fetch and submit feature and Sitemap feature... - This Webmaster Wants His Google PageRank Score
I spotted a thread at the Google Webmaster Help forums that made me laugh, and since you guys are mostly SEOs... - Google: Separate Out Data In Search Console For www/non-www/http/https?
So last year, Google gave us a way to combine data into sets within Google Search Console. So if you have verified a www, non-www, https, non-https, apps, etc - you can combine them all into a single set and get aggregate data for all of them in one Google Search Console profile... - Google 10 Year Working Anniversary Certificate & Award
Here is a photo from Jack Fermon, a fun Googler to follow, who just celebrated his tenth year working anniversary at Google. He shared a photo of the certificate Google gave him for the special milest
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- DYK you can put hreflang either in the HTML, HTTP header, or the sitemap? It doesn't matter where it is as long as it's correct https://t.co/OXbAHXU247, Gary Illyes on Twitter
- Get to know the Google My Business Community!, The Google Advertiser Community
- Google publishes hundreds of research papers each year. Publishing is importa..., Google+ - Research at Google
