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:
- SEO For Google Now Harder? What Has Changes Over The Past Few Years?
There is an interesting thread starting up at WebmasterWorld talking about what has changed specifically with SEO around Google over the past few years. Specifically, why techniques they used back in 2016 no longer work in 2018... - Google: Duplication In Title Tags With Image Alt Tag Is Not An Issue
John Mueller of Google said on Twitter having your title tag read exactly the same as your image alt tag on the same page... - Google Removed "Don't Be Evil" From Code Of Conduct
A few days ago, it was reported that Google removed the "don't be evil" from their code of conduct... - Google: Number Of Slashes In URLs Doesn't Matter For Search
Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that Google doesn't look at the number of slashes, i.e. /, you have in a URL for search purposes. John said "We don't count slashes in a URL... - Adam Riemer - 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. Adam Riemer lives in Washington DC but promises... - Bing Search Bar At SMX
Bing is giving SMX attendees at the SMX London event drinks and refreshments. Here is what they call the Bing Search Bar. They shared many photos and even some videos of it on Twitter. I shared one
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- 60 Minutes Asks, "How Did Google Get So Big?", WebmasterWorld
- Google adds a Recently Opened notice in Hotel Knowledge Panel. We're now testing if it's tied to GMB 'add opening date' feature. @sergey_alakov @rustybrick @LQ @LQ_Returns… https://t.co/N08Hfsih7N, Brad Brewer on Twitter
- Indexation ... it's what's left after robots.taxes, essentially., John Mueller on Twitter
- Adobe to Acquire Magento Commerce for $1.68 Billion, WebmasterWorld
- New CPU Vulnerability, Speculative Store Bypass (Variant 4), WebmasterWorld
- PSA: the "I got my company banned by Google" story was fake, potentially black PR : google, Reddit
- To demonstrate how slow the @guardian page loads during our technical #SEO session @SMX #SMXlondon, @bart_goralewicz is having @TomAnthonySEO do push ups until the page fully loads. Slow load times, truly painful!… https://t, MichelleRobbins on Twitter
- US Congress mulls extending copyright yet again – to 144 years, WebmasterWorld
- Using GTM means it requires rendering to be processed, and has the logic outside of the pages / server -- it's both potentially flaky & a nightmare to maintain. I can see that making sense in exceptional cases, but, John Mueller on Twitter
