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:
- July 2016 Google Webmaster Report
This past month was actually fairly slow with Google Webmaster big news. The biggest topics we had were two possible Google updates to their ranking algorithm that went unconfirmed... - Google Tests Dropping Results Estimate?
When you do a search on Google, at the top, under the search box, it normally shows how many results Google was able to find. For example, a site command for [site:www.google.com] returns "About 71,000... - Google Basics: One URL = One Piece Of Content
I often speak to a lot of SEO newbies when I do talks or travel or even via emails and other communications. I find myself telling people in this space the same thing over and over again. Each page, each URL... - Google: Breaking Head Section Can Make Hreflang Unrecognizable To Google
Google's John Mueller said in a Google Hangout on Google+ last Friday that sometimes when href lang doesn't get picked up, it might be that the header section of your HTML is broken... - Google: Search Engines Tend To Not Support Pages Dependent On Hashtags
John Mueller at Google said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that if your page load is dependent on the hashtag being triggered then you need to consider that many search engines do not support it. This isn't a new SEO tip... - Weird Google Display With Facebook Thumbs Down At GooglePlex
Sebastian Porst from Google posted a photo on Google+ of someone at Google who put up this handmade display with the Google logo next to a Facebook thumbs down icon. They are made of wood and put int
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Another Huge Article Exposing Spam Tactics on Google Maps - Connected to Scientology, localsearchforum.com
- New Official Google Help Forum, localsearchforum.com
- And the answers.... Hats, badges, and clothing styles are important signifiers!…, Google+ - Dan Russell
- #AMP Related Picks show multiple carousels in a single SERP #SEO @rustybrick https://t.co/zRvNLdQ8DA, Jelani Burton on Twitter
- @JohnMu Why does Google keep changing my page titles (de-ch) and what can I do to prevent it? https://t.co/D5RO7D8aaQ, Phil the Grill on Twitter
- July 2016 AdSense Earnings and Observations, WebmasterWorld
- New Sites in 2016 Get Automatically Buried?, BlackHatWorld
- We’d love to invite you to participate in one of our upcoming user experience…, Google+ - AdSense
