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 Mobile First Index, GDPR, TLS PCI, Speed & Honoring
This week was a tad slower in the search and SEO news front. We had a fourth batch of notices about the Google mobile first indexing. Those sites moved over have issues with the Google cache, but no worries there. Googleâs rich results testing tool now supports movies... - Google Search Supports TLS 1.1 & 1.2 With Upcoming PCI Compliance Requirements
On June 30, 2018, the PCI Council is suggesting that all web sites migrate from TLS 1.0 to TLS 1.1 or higher... - Upcoming Google Speed Update Will Look More Closely At Page Speed Variations
So John Mueller of Google spoke a bit about page speed in this mornings Google webmaster video hangout at the 1:58 mark. He said the current page speed factor, which is desktop only... - Google Tests Gray Review Stars In Search Results
Google is once again testing gray colored stars in the search results, where you would typically see orange stars for the rich results review snippets. Google did a lot of testing on the colors of the stars in 2014 including green, yellow, gray... - Google Will Tell You If They Are Up Or Down
Do a search for [is google down] and Google will return an answer telling you if the search engine is currently working or not. The ironic thing is that if Google was down, it wouldn't be able to tell you if they were up or down... - Google Search Console Crawl Stats Stopped Updating On May 23rd
If you try to check your Google Search Console report for crawl stats... - Google Director Chair
These are not new, hence the old Google logo printed on them, but Google has their own branded director chairs. They use it for some of their interviews and other places. I suspect they aren't too c
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- WSJ: Early Indications Show Google Being an Ad Money Winner Over GDPR, WebmasterWorld
- GDPR Consent Overlays and AdSense, WebmasterWorld
- TBH if you have access to the site, I'd try to get the SD into the pages directly. GTM adds a lot of complexity, which makes debugging harder, and adds potential points of failure. Sometimes adding SD is really, re, John Mueller on Twitter
