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 Algorithm & Ranking Update, Job Listings Penalty & Mobile-First Indexing
This week we saw a long going Google algorithm update that has been ongoing for a few days or so now. Google said job listings that are no longer open that have schema can be penalized. Google said do not make your site unmobile-friendly just to stay away from the mobile-first indexing... - Google Update & Ranking Algorithm Fluctuations Continue
Earlier this week, we reported that we saw signs of a Google algorithm update kicking off - the interesting part is that while there is a lot of chatter and signals showing there was an update, the level of that chatter isn't what I would say is close to a Panda... - Google To Replace Assistant Featured Snippet Answers With How To Ads?
CNBC reports that Google is looking to get advertisers to create how to content and videos to be used as voice responses for Google Assistant and Google Home queries. CNC wrote "Google has been pitching companies to create videos for a new "How To" feature for its smart assistant... - Study: Google Local Pack Intentionally Showing Two Near Results & One Result Further Away?
The folks over at RankRanger published data around a local pack study that they are calling the 2:1 pattern... - Pete Watson-Wailes - 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. Pete Watson-Wailes is is 32 years old, married and is expecting their first child in June... - Path To Google
Here is a photo from the Google campus in Mountain View, of one of the many paths around the buildings there. I believe these are from one of the outskirt buildings but as you can see, it looks relaxi
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Happy 1st birthday to the new @googleearth! 🎉 Celebrate with a look back at how we explored around the globe in the past year → https://t.co/Jk8THlMTbk… https://t.co/bv0KxD1PX1, Google on Twitter
- Check out cache control headers, or better, use permanent redirects when the redirect is permanent :-)…, John Mueller on Twitter
- I can't really advise on your anti-virus software. All I know is that if it's changing the search results, it might be doing other things such as blocking the tools option. This is how they should look.… https://t.co/HL3dqhd, Danny Sullivan on Twitter
- If you know of any progressive web app news feeds, let me know. I've been collecting some on https://t.co/kECHT1y1kL - list of new PWA's, medium posts, Thurrot etc., Paul Kinlan on Twitter
- Monetization Self-Certification Pilot, YouTube Help
- Yesterday in a tweet I mentioned this new type of undetectable negative SEO attack being done. Here's my post about it: https://t.co/M89cX8GOsG… https://t.co/qrr0OlM3nA, Bill Hartzer on Twitter
