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 Local Edits May Ask If You Are An Employee Or Customer
Sergey Alakov spotted something, I honestly thought I've seen before but I can't find that I covered it, that when you make an edit as a normal user to a local panel on Google, Google is asking if you are a customer or employee of that business that you are editing... - Google Search Console Meta Descriptions HTML Improvements May Go Away
With all the debate around the changes to how Google displays snippets in the search results in May... - Google News Confirms Killing Off Several Publisher Features
Lisa Wang from the Google News team posted in the Google News Help forums last night that they are deprecating a bunch of publisher specific features within Google News. Some we already reported... - Google My Business Agency Dashboard Now Live
As I reported at Search Engine Land, the expected new Google My Business Agency Dashboard is now live for those marketing agencies that need to manage their client's local listings. No longer are you limited to a 100 listings to manage... - Google Search Decorations For Gay Pride Month
If you go to Google and search for keywords such as [gay], [pride month], [homosexual], [lgbt] and other variations of those keywords, you will get the Gay Pride Month decorations in the Google search results... - Google Pride Logo Up At GooglePlex Campus
Every June for the last several years, Google has swapped out the logo on the front of their building with a Pride variation of their logo. They did so this year too. Here is a photo from Jenny Mendo
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Dunno, I see people report that it's fairly recent for them. Sometimes these charts lag a bit more than usual, that doesn't mean we've given up on your site :). I'll double-check some power switches & cables, but it, John Mueller on Twitter
- You're right; no, it doesn't work that way -- not all pages get the same "weight" (how often they're recrawled), and often known 404 pages are checked extremely rarely, so they're definitely not expensive in that re, John Mueller on Twitter
- I've seen many, many attempts at "Beginner's Guide to X." Most suck. This does not: https://t.co/zaWBauFJJA It's totally free, no email captures, great layout, great content, and really well-written. If you need a resource for t, Rand Fishkin on Twitter
- Safari will block tracking cookies by default, WebmasterWorld
