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 Algorithm & Ranking Update Kicking Off?
There may be a Google search and ranking algorithm update starting off this morning. I received a couple of notifications via email and some on social media and the chatter in the ongoing WebmasterWorld forums is starting to heat up a bit... - Google: New TLDs Google Treats Generic, Even .london Is Not Geotargeted
Google treats all those new TLDs that launched a few years ago as generic TLDs, and by default, those are not geotargeted. That includes the new TLDs for popular cities such as .london, .madrid... - Google: We Don't Always See Links With OnClick JavaScript Events
We all know how good Google is at understanding and crawling JavaScript, AJAX and complex web pages in many forms, but Google's John Mueller said, when it comes to discovering links within onclick events in JavaScript... - Report: Google Featured Snippets Decline & Direct Answers Increase
The folks at RankRanger posted on Twitter that they are seeing less Featured Snippets show up on Google mobile search... - Michael Kirchhoff - 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. Michael Kirchhoff currently lives in Tulsa... - YouTube Space Replica In A Box
Here is a picture of a replica of the YouTube Space. You can see in this box, it shows stair cases, rooms, artwork, and even this huge skate park ramp with the YouTube logo on it. This GoNYC office
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Are you seeing a traffic increase since Mobile-first Index switch?, WebmasterWorld
- This tabbed local finder interface for hotels has just been rolled out in Canada. Google announced the rollout last month - https://t.co/bglyLvISsb . @mblumenthal did you see the tabs in the U.S. before? cc:@rustybrick… https, Sergey Alakov on Twitter
- Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla kick W3C nerds to the curb, WebmasterWorld
- Baidu Blockchain Photo Platform to Protect Intellectual Property, WebmasterWorld
- Former FindWhat dot com, WebmasterWorld
- hreflang should be between the final URLs, not redirecting ones.…, John Mueller on Twitter
- That wouldn't be from normal crawling -- probably just someone linking there. We only pick up the robots.txt for crawling directives from the root.… https://t.co/qtnQVRaYGE, John Mueller on Twitter
- What is good content today, WebmasterWorld
