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 Tests URL At Top Of Search Results Snippets
Google has been busy testing new mobile snippet layouts recently. We've recently seen them testing breadcrumbs at the top of the search results snippet and now Google is testing the URLs, instead of the breadcrumbs... - Google: If You Care About Your Page, You Should Link To It
So we've covered Google saying you can rank without links which is why Google's Gary Illyes was asked about it again on Twitter. Gary's response was refreshing, saying that "if you care about that page at all, you should probably link it from the site... - See How Google's John Mueller & Gary Illyes Answer The Same Question Differently
An SEO named Brock Ellison asked Google's John Mueller and Gary Illyes (he also asked others) the same question and he got different answers from John and Gary... - Google: Why We Won't Label Disavowed Links In The Search Console Report
One of the more common requests I see from webmasters and SEOs in regards to the Google Search Console link report is for Google to label which links are disavowed or nofollowed and which are passing all types of link juice... - Google: We Need More Content For Many Non-English Head Queries
Gary Illyes from Google posted on Twitter one of those DYK saying that there is opportunity for webmasters and SEOs to create content in non-English languages because for many non-English languages, there isn't "enough content even for head queries... - YouTube Guru Program Sign
Here is a photo I spotted on Instagram of an event named the YouTube Guru Program. I guess these are YouTube creators that went to Google for education on how to get the most out of YouTube's feature
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- DYK Google Image Search has a "src" search operator? E.g. [src:https://t.co/9EGtL34ivf] Sunday project: what does it do exactly? https://t.co/oqsSoJS025, Gary Illyes on Twitter
- StatCounter: Android is The World's Most Popular OS, WebmasterWorld
- Yahoo Oath Name Change Falsely Reported, WebmasterWorld
- @therealburgo With how we crawl & index (not all URLs at once), most sites will see a strong change followed by a much flatter curve settling down(months), John Mueller on Twitter
