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 Search and JavaScript Sites I/O Session
I covered most of the important news from the Google Search: State of the Union session but Google had an amazing session named Google Search and JavaScript Sites which is probably worth watching for those who do SEO for JavaScript sites or just build out sites and apps using JavaScript. - Google: Crawl Budgets & Delays Not About Page Size
This past Friday, while at the GooglePlex, John Mueller, Martin Splitt and Lizzi Harvey from the Google team hosted an office hours and Martin MacDonald was there to represent the SEOs. He asked a question about crawl budget and stuff and if a page the size of 10mb can reduce crawl budget compared to a page only 400kb. All the Googlers shook their heads no. - Old Google Cache Date Is Nothing To Worry About
Like expired milk, and old Google cache date won't hurt you. Well, at least expired milk according to Adam Conover won't hurt you. And at least according to Google's John Mueller, Danny Sullivan, Martin Splitt and others - an old cache date won't hurt your Google rankings. - Google PageSpeed Insights Implements Design Update
Google's PageSpeed Insights, last week, as I noted very briefly my weekly video this past Friday, has done a smallish design update to the tool. You can visually see they moved the score to the top and centered it, rounded some of the bars corners and brightened some things up. - Georgios Papanikolaou Pap Smear Google Doodle
Today on Google's home page is a special Doodle, Google logo, for Georgios Papanikolaou. Georgios Papanikolaou was born a 136 years ago today and he was a Greek pioneer in cytopathology and early cancer detection. He inventor of the Pap smear, Papanicolaou test, a method of cervical screening used to detect potentially precancerous and cancerous processes in the cervix. - Google NYC Allows Model Photoshoots?
This photo is trending on Instagram for the past few days for Google's NYC office. I don't fully understand what is going on but it seems a very popular Instagram model or maybe general model was ab
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- As a Structured Data fangirl I'm pretty excited to see the impact of testing the new FAQ Rich Results! I rolled out FAQPage Schema markup a while ago to test different impacts, but these new features are looking pretty 🔥🔥🔥, Izzi Smith on Twitter
- I, too, spent way too much time trying the leg count of different things :-). The web is pretty fascinating, these kinds of quirks (which you pretty much have to dig for) make me appreciate how well it works overall.… https:, John Mueller on Twitter
- Where can I find a rabbit with 200 legs? On Rich Snippets! cc: @rustybrick, @JohnMu…, Naman Nepal on Twitter
- It's all the same for search, as long as it's a valid certificate. Free certificates are just as good as paid ones.… https://t.co/SvJ4gXO2Wp, John Mueller on Twitter
- These things are all pretty new, so I'd definitely expect them to evolve over time. What would be your preference?… https://t.co/U8j3fyCApt, John Mueller on Twitter
Search Engine Land Stories:
- User-generated content for SEO: The cost-benefit analysis you need
- Leveraging data science to illuminate the modern consumer decision journey
- Google Ads store visits, store sales reporting data partially corrected
- SEL Brief May 13 2019
- Evergreen Googlebot with Chromium rendering engine: What technical SEOs need to know
- Is Google caching getting even more confusing?
Other Great Search Stories:
Analytics
- Google Data Studio - What it Does and Why You Need It, HeartBrain Marketing
- Does Google Data Studio Sample Google Analytics Data?, Seer Interactive
- How to Get Brilliant Blog Post Ideas From Google Analytics, Monster Insights
Industry & Business
- Google's ad chief pushes privacy to gain back frayed trust, CNET
- Helping businesses grow across all 50 U.S. states, Google Blog
- Yelp's stock erased its entire 2019 gain in one day, Axios
Links & Promotion Building
- Subject Matter Experts and Your Content, Stone Temple
Local & Maps
- Digital Marketing News: Effects of Pay-to-Play GMB, Location3 Media
- Google Maps adds support for transit directions in Bulgaria, Android Police
- How to avoid tolls on Google Maps and save yourself money, Business Insider
Mobile & Voice
- Foldable phone race heats up as Google enters the fold, The Next Web
- Google's voice strategy is ubiquitous and comprehensive, VentureBeat
- The next-gen Google Assistant is taking the privacy fight right to Siri—and it just might win, Macworld
SEO
- SEO & Progressive Web Apps: Looking to the Future, Moz
- The Best Free SEO Tools to Increase Your Rankings, Entrepreneur
PPC
- Effect Of RSA Inclusion On Campaign Click Volume, PPC Hero
- Google has given $150,000 in free ads to deceptive anti-abortion group, The Guardian
Search Features
- Google creates ‘dedicated placement’ in search results for AMP Stories, starting with travel category, VentureBeat
- Google "De-Indexes 832 Pirate Sites" From Australia Search Results, TorrentFreak
- How to add a custom search engine to Firefox mobile, TechRepublic
- Microsoft Photos gains internet powered “Similar Search” feature thanks to Bing OnMSFT.com, OnMSFT
