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 Mobile First Indexing Release, Algorithm Updates, Bing Search & More
This week was pretty hectic in the search world. Google announced they are beginning to roll out the mobile first indexing process, although I donât think it rolled out yet... - Google Request Indexing & Submit URL Feature Accepting URLs Again
For the past couple of months or so, we have been reporting on changes to the request indexing and submit URL Google tool because of abuse and spam. Those limits were set aggressively for quiet some time but as of this morning... - Google SEO Snippets Video: URL Endings Or Extensions Don't Matter
In yet another SEO Snippets video John Mueller of Google addresses another basic SEO question, around how you end your URLs, what extension you use. The question was "will removing that HTML from our URLs help my site... - Bing Ads Editor Adds Account Level Ad Extensions
Bing announced a new feature within the Bing Ads Editor. It now supports managing your account level ad extension associations from Bing Ads Editor. Bing is starting with managing specifically the Callout Extensions... - Google Image Search Exact Size Filter To Be Fixed
If you go to Google Image search and search for any image, let's say flowers, and then go to the search tools and select the size option. Then you pick "exactly" and enter in a size and hit "Go." Nothing, absolutely... - Alexis Sanders - 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... - Custom Google Donut Box
Last week we shared photos of the Google Home Mini donut truck. Google posted more pictures of it on Google+ and we can now zoom into the custom branded Google donut boxes they use to give out the don
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- That’s a video still from a short documentary about black women & beauty on YouTube. We agree it’s not the best representation of the actual content. Video creators can select thumbnails they want to appear. We’ll also l, Danny Sullivan on Twitter
- Important Drupal Release on March 28, WebmasterWorld
- It has been a very busy day, who knew running a non-profit would be so busy, so I missed this. European Commission announces it can/will cancel many, many domain names because of brexit. TLDs were a bad idea. https://t.co/Ab, Sarah Jamie Lewis on Twitter
- This Guardian article has been shared 95,000 times, exposing 'all the data Facebook & Google have on you'. But it doesn't mention at all that the article itself uses: - Four sets of Facebook tracking. - Nine sets of Google tracking, dan barker on Twitter
- U.K. Holders of .eu Domains Will Lose Rights After U.K. Withdrawal From E.U., WebmasterWorld