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 Maps Testing Video Verification For Businesses
As you know, you need to verify your business on Google My Business to be listed as a verified business in Google Maps results and the local pack nicely. You can do that via snail mail verification, phone verification, Google Search Console verification and more... - Google: Product Pricing Is Not A Ranking Factor
Google does not look at how expensive or cheap your products are for organic search rankings. They don't rank better deals higher in the search results. They don't downgrade the rankings of rip offs either... - Google Tests Larger Font Sizes In Search Results & Expands Card Style Test
Google doesn't stop testing different interfaces, in fact... - 25,000 Google Engineers Commit 16,000 Code Changes Per Day
Google's John Mueller shared on Twitter a story at ACM named Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository. It says that of the Google employees, 25,000 Google software developers have access to some or all of the Google code repository... - Official: Google India English & Hindi Flip View Now Live
After testing a feature in Google India to tab between English and Hindi results for 6 months now, Google has announced it is now officially live for mobile users in India. In short... - Gary Illyes Gifts Googler Zineb With Platypus To Join Panda & Bots
Zineb from Google publicly thanked Gary Illyes from Google for gifting her with a Platypus, a toy Platypus of course. It goes along with her collection of Google Bots and Pandas. Where is the Pengui
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Rude call from Google employee (?) and moved office gets marked as closed, localsearchforum.com
- @rustybrick “How many child sites can I have?” Usually a good answer is: How many children you want to take care of? :P, Pedro Dias on Twitter
- International tld urls appearing in Google.com results, WebmasterWorld
- Lots of people quitting SEO after failing for many months?, blackhatworld.com
- With Q2 drawing to a close, we’ve updated the #AMP Roadmap. Check it out: https://t.co/dCoVxwkaAK and learn more: https://t.co/MZIQdqLKEh, AMP Project on Twitter
- John Mueller and Mariya Moeva Talk About the Benefits of AMP and Mobile Apps …, Google+ - HillwebcreationsMinneapolisMarketing
- New domain owners using robots.txt to erase history makes me so, so angry. It's not right. https://t.co/aM6LB1QOtD, Jeff Atwood on Twitter
- Traffic sudden down, Page Views Down, But Domain Authority Up, WebmasterWorld
- WebPromoExpert on Twitter: "Missed @Bing Q&A? With brilliant @purnavirji And knowledgeable @Ammon_Johns @bill_slawski @stonetemple @jenstar https://t.co/fD9p4Fzoz2", twitter.com
