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 Search Ads That Blend into Organic & Can Be Closed Out
Antony Jackson posted a screen shot on Google+ of a new user interface where the search ads and organic search listings kind of blend together. There is this little "Ads X" at the top right of the search results... - Google Generally Prefers One Stronger Page Versus Many Smaller Pages
Just to be clear, Google said this before - Google: Few Strong Pages > Many Weak Ones but here John Mueller explained it a bit more. He said that when you take one big... - Google: Closed Job Listings Can Result In Manual Action Penalty
Google's new guidelines around Job Postings and listings requires that you remove any job postings on your web site that have been filled. If you do not remove the listing... - Is Google Dropping Live Wait Times In Local Panel?
Last November, Google started showing live wait times at some venues and locations. But that may have slowly gone away. Nicholas McDonough posted - Gianluca Fiorelli - 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. Gianluca Fiorelli is currently 48 years old and lives in Valencia, Spain for the past 14 years. He was born in Milan... - Google Baby Shower Cake
I found this interesting cake for a baby shower done at Google. In short, this Googler named Salit thought she was going into a one on one meeting with her manager but instead received a surprise baby
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Interesting the difference from the screenshot @sergey_alakov shared. More stark, name and reviews more obvious…, Mike Blumenthal on Twitter
- AFAIK the limit for News sitemaps is 1000 URLs per sitemap file, but you can make multiple of these, or just put the older URLs into your normal sitemaps.… https://t.co/6aQy6QxV6H, John Mueller on Twitter
- Google Loses a "Right to be Forgotten" Case in U.K., WebmasterWorld
- I've been testing this and seems like we might have a bug that won't show any image for any keywords before April 15, 2008. I'm passing it along to check.… https://t.co/8SjANfqvjl, Danny Sullivan on Twitter
- Interesting to see Google are more aggressively promoting their products in the travel sector - see here with navigation listing for Flights and promotion of destination guides as a featured snippet listing.… https://t.co/9Z4, Kevin Gibbons on Twitter
- No, we don't mix the versions. If we index the mobile version, it's only content from what the mobile smartphone Googlebot sees.… https://t.co/kiXGtrnMtE, John Mueller on Twitter
