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:
- May 2016 Google Webmaster Report
This month was pretty packed with a ton of SEO tips but the big items included many penalties, mostly manual actions. We had product review penalties, rich snippet penalties... - Google Warns Again: We Will Penalize You For Sneaky Mobile Redirects
Back in October of last year, Google warned webmasters about sneaky mobile redirects and that if you use them, they have the right to take action on your site. For some reason... - Google Testing Larger Margins & Spaces Between Search Snippets
Yesterday, @oozn noticed Google testing wider, larger, bigger margins and spaces between the search result snippets. Giving more white space... - Google Search Console Improves AMP Error Report
Google's John Mueller announced on Google+ that they've updated the AMP error report in the Google Search Console. John explained that they've "updated the categorization used there to better group similar issues... - Google Extended Featured Snippets
Bill Elward posted on Twitter that for a search on [personal loan] in Google, Google is displaying an unusual featured snippet. It looks like an extended version of a featured snippet... - Make SEO Great Again Hat Turns Eyes
Ryan Jones from the wtfseo.com site has designed must have hats. These are bright red hats that say on them "Make SEO Great Again." I have no clue how he came up with such an amazing slogan but ever
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- AOL: Over 70 Percent Of Our Traffic Comes From Mobile - GeoMarketing, localsearchforum.com
- Google Blogspot Now HTTPS by Default to all Blogs, WebmasterWorld
- Google Now Requires GTINs In Shopping Product Data Feeds, WebmasterWorld
- Autoplay on Mobile, YouTube Help
- How to check my site for Panda, Penquin, etc., WebmasterWorld
- [AdWords Product Update] Use Bumper Ads to Drive R..., The Google Advertiser Community
