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 Structured Data, A/B Testing, Bing Ads, Ben Gomes & April Fools
This week, I posted the monthly Google webmaster report, it was a busy month, so make sure to review it. Google said structured data is not directly a ranking factor but it helps ... - Google goo.gl URL Shortener Shutting Down On March 30, 2019
Google announced that they are shutting down, closing, their URL shortener service on March 30, 2019. Google first launched it in December 2009, and less than ten years... - Google Is Able To Index CSS Grid Layouts
Google said even though Chrome 41, how GoogleBot sees the web, doesn't support CSS Grid Layouts, Google is still able to index the content on those pages. John Mueller... - Meet Gary Illyes Of Google In Australia Next Week
Gary Illyes, one of our favorite Googlers, will be in be in both Sydney and Melbourne, Australia next week and you can meet up with him. Here is where you can meet him... - Marc Poirer - The Search Community Honors You
Marc Poirer is 48 years old, lives in the Montreal, Canada with his wife and twins who will be almost 4 years old soon. Marc hasn't done much SEO in the past several years... - Watch Google Assistant Pour Whisky
This is super wild, this guy programmed a system to tell Google Assistant to pour him a shot of whisky! He posted the full video on Reddit, so go there to watch it in action ... - Programming Note: Offline Tomorrow, April 6th For Passover 5778
This is a programming note that I will be 100% offline tomorrow, Friday April 5th, for the Passover holiday...
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Googlebot primarily crawls from the US, so if you show US users (incl Googlebot) the content, that would be indexed & ranked normally. You might find EU users wouldn't link to your site as much though.… https://t, John Mueller on Twitter
- The cache plugin makes this weird, but you can request a ?randomnumber URL and see it. It also makes it easier to spot where people are scraping from, if you care about that.… https://t.co/mKK7fVJTc0, John Mueller on Twitter
- How quickly can Google index JavaScript content compared with content rendered in the source? The first test from our hourly rank tracking, Reddit
- Can an influx of spammy porn links always be ignored?, Google Webmaster Help
- EvolvingSEO interviewed Kim Krause Berg on UX (and it was fun!), Cre8asite Forums
- Facebook Adds Bulk Removal Tool, WebmasterWorld
- Google Now Bans Crypto Mining Extensions From Chrome Store, WebmasterWorld
- I have to pay 47% in tax for my SEO income, BlackHatWorld
Note: I am currently offline for Passover, this post was prewritten and scheduled to go live today.
