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 Updated Quality Raters Guidelines Last Week
Google has updated the quality raters guidelines PDF on March 28, 2016. The full version of the quality raters guidelines was first introduced in November 2015 and now keeps it live and updated for all to see... - Google Search Analytics Report Missing A Day Of Data In Search Console
Google Search Console seems to have a gap in data, literally a gap. If you go to the Google Search Analytics report, you will see that the 29th of March is missing data... - Google Movie Listings Direct You To Fandango
Google seems to have launched movie listing results that link directly to Fandango's web site or mobile app. If you search for local movie listings in Google, Google will output them and link you over to Fandango to do the final purchase... - Google AdWords Testing Green Call/Phone Icon Button
Google seems to be testing a new ad format, with a green app like looking phone icon. This is in addition to the blue subtle call phone icon. Truth is... - Google's Paul Haahr On Patents For Learning SEO
Google's Paul Haahr, a lead ranking engineer at Google for 14+ years, had a nice conversation with the SEO community yesterday on Twitter. - Google Changes Local Reviews - Removes Google+ Page & Simplifies Adding Reviews
There was a lot I wanted to cover on Friday but was afraid some of that news would get looked over because it was April Fools Day. If you missed... - Google Cardboard Business Card
Hector Yee, who seems to work at both Google and Airbnb according to his LinkedIn profile, shared a photo of his new business card. It is a Google Cardboard version and it says Orthonormal Eigenhector
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- All Clients Are Liars, localsearchforum.com
- Content that receives no traffic, WebmasterWorld
- Landing page or products list?, WebmasterWorld
- Possible Bug: April 1 Impacting Reviews & Listings on Google Maps, localsearchforum.com
