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 Search Console Upgrades, Google Penalties, Real Time Index API & I/O
It was a massive week in search news, mostly Google, as you'd expect and I have so much more to cover next week, so stay tuned. First... - Google: There Is No Way To Redirect A Penalized Site Safely
In a webmaster hangout on Google+ this morning, Google's John Mueller basically said there is no good way to redirect a web site that has a penalty to a new... - Google To Go To Court Over Pure Spam Manual Actions
Google issues a ton of manual actions, in fact, last year they issued ~500 per hour alone. But one publisher based in Florida is suing Google over being delisted over a set of pure spam manual actions... - Google Shares AMP Growth Rate & Expands To Recipes & iOS & Android Apps
Richard Gingras from Google in his Google I/O session named Search and the mobile content ecosystem shared two nice tidbits on AMP. The first is that they indexed 125 million AMP documents across 640... - Google: We're Testing A Real Time Indexing API
In the the Google I/O session named Search and the mobile content ecosystem, Google's Richard Gingras announced Google is currently piloting a real time indexing API designed to allow Google to index content from publishers in, well... - Proof: Featured Snippets & Rich Results Filters Coming To Google Search Analytics
Just this week, Google brought a new filter to the Google Search Console's Search Analytics report for showing AMP results in the report. Well, it seems like two additional filters are coming to the Google Search Analytics report including featured snippets and rich result... - A Wall Of Google I/O Android Figures
Louis Gray and Rosa Golijan from Google shared photos of the Google I/O Android figurine. We know Louis is an Android figurine nut but check out this wall of them, it is somewhat scary. Rosa's photo
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- 61% of users leave mobile sites if they don’t see what they're looking for…, Google+ - AdSense
- “Near me” searches have grown 146% year over year. Learn about new ways to…, Google+ - Google Ads
- Google Appeals to French Court Over "right to be forgotten" Global Deletions, WebmasterWorld
- Seeing AMP errors in Search Console? Follow these 3 steps to fix your errors, Google Webmaster Help
