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 Submitting Question Directly In Search Results
Manashjyoti Athparia posted in the Gulshan Kumar Forums (hat tip to mayank_jee) a screen shot of Google's search results with a big box letting the searcher submit a question to be answered later by humans... - Google AdSense Reports Spam Percentage Rate Metrics
Image credit to Shutterstock Over the past few days, Google AdSense has been displaying various spam percentage metrics in the Google AdSense reports for publishers. You can get page view spam percentage, ad requests spam percentage, ad spam percentage... - Google Featured Snippet More Button
Image credit to Shutterstock Mordy Oberstein spotted and posted on Twitter what looks to be a new feature for those Google featured snippets. This one shows a more button under the featured snippet (even when the featured snippet is at the top)... - Cre8asiteforums Shutting Down On May 25th
Kim Krause Berg, who we profiled, announced at her Cre8asite Forums that she is closing down the forums after 20 years of operations on May 25, 2018. The date is interesting because of it overlapping with the GDPR date... - Brian McDowell - 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. Brian McDowell is 43 years old and lives with his family in the Charlotte, North Carolina region... - US Teacher Appreciation Week Google Doodle
Today on Google's home page in the United States is a special Google Doodle for US Teacher Appreciation Week. Teacher Appreciation Week is a national holiday celebrated in United States of America which takes place in the first full week of May... - Google Employees On May 4th With Lightsabers
This past Friday was May 4th and Googlers love the day because of the geeky nature of it. Here is a photo, one of many, of a Googler holding a lightsaber. He looks to be really into it. He posted the
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Your frantic search for the mute button is off! Chrome now blocks more than half of unwanted autoplays. https://t.co/eLbKERKZVD, Google Chrome on Twitter
- HTTPS Update -- In the MozCast 10K, for page-1 desktop SERPs, we're up to 83% of URLs. Did a one-time check of top 50 results, assuming page-1 would be HTTPS-heavy, and the drop is surprisingly small. Top-50 URLs are at 76%., Dr. Pete Meyers on Twitter
- Haven't noticed this before. A relationship between the current entity and the link target is sometimes described in mouse-overs on Google Knowledge Graph links, here with a calculated value included. https://t.co/wdXmVdgQNi, Aaron Bradley on Twitter
- I don't see how you come to that con(cl|f)usion :)…, John Mueller on Twitter
- I imagine this is a CTR test of some form – many of the sites that I manage now have a truncated Meta Desc for the home page when doing a brand search (similar length to the old px limit). Seems to be consistent across variou, Brodie Clark on Twitter
- Sometimes things are a bit slow, I'm sure it'll be back soon :)…, John Mueller on Twitter
- In the last week I've heard from two different reputable organizations that a..., Google+ - Matt Cutts
- Marketing With Data: Hearts, Charts and Shopping Carts #measure #marketing #a..., Google+ - Louis Gray
- Phantom routes on Timeline, Google Maps Help
- Response From MOZ Q&A Forum Regarding My PBN, BlackHatWorld
