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:
- New Google Search Console URL Inspection Tool
Google just announced a new feature in the beta Google Search Console called the URL inspection tool. This tool basically gives you insight into a specific single URL on how Google indexed that version of that a specific page... - Get Google Knowledge Panel Verification
Late Friday, Google announced they've opened up verification of the knowledge panels to more and more people. In fact, I was able to even verify my own Google knowledge panel within a matter of a minute or so... - The Google Project Beacon - Did You Get Your Beacon?
A couple weeks ago, I received a package in the mail from Project Beacon with the Google's Mountain View, California address on it. When I opened it up, I found a beacon and some instructions on how to set it up. I did not yet set it up... - Google Tests Hotel Search Filters Using Highlight Icons
As you know, Google has been using these hotel highlight icons to display hotel amenities in a more graphical manner. Well now Google is testing using these icons in the hotel search filters... - Danny Sullivan Profiled In His New Role At Google By CNBC
Everyone who reads here knows I am a huge fan of Danny Sullivan, I've worked with him for over a decade and I've got to know him so well over the years that I just respect and value the man so much... - Interesting Google Panda Painting With John Mueller, Matt Cutts & Others
Giuseppe Pastore shared a picture of a painting by Calogero Dimino where it has a Google Panda theme but also has the heads off John Mueller and Matt Cutts, amongst others. I think Larry Page and Ser
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- In general, changes like that wouldn't be due to the indexing of those pages, so I'd look more to significantly improving the site overall.… https://t.co/rBIF5gz58s, John Mueller on Twitter
- Had a few dozen warning emails from @googlewmc, telling us that it's going to send us more emails, about new AMP errors it can now detect: #amp #google #seo… https://t.co/M36kI3u3CF, Joost de Valk on Twitter
- If the sitemap URLs continue to "work" (even with a redirect), we'll generally keep trying them too. If you've since submitted your sitemap files under the new URLs, removing them or keeping them shouldn't matter, John Mueller on Twitter
- It's possible that you'd still see some requests for those old, embedded URLs, though they'll generally become less visible over time.… https://t.co/f7wthSmHJ4, John Mueller on Twitter
- That sounds pretty normal. Lots of sites are very relevant to specific terms, but not necessarily as much for generic searches (and sometimes, the intent in those queries is different too).… https://t.co/Hzzx6flY, John Mueller on Twitter
