Daily Search Forum Recap: July 10, 2018

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: We Read Contents Within Figure Tag But No Special Treatment
The figure HTML tag or element is often used to represent self-contained content. It is frequently with a caption (figcaption)...
Google: Many 5xx Errors Can Slow Crawling
Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that serving too many 5xx errors, the internal server types of errors, can cause Google to slow the crawling of your web site...
Google: Provide Consistent & Clear URL Rewriting
Google's John Mueller said it is fine using either root relative links (/google.html) vs relative links (google.html) as long as you are consistent on how you do your URL rewrites...
Available For All: Google Search Console URL Inspection Tool
A few weeks ago, Google launched the URL inspection tool within the new Google Search Console. Not everyone was seeing it, it was rolling out slowly but now, according to Google...
World Cup Google Soccer Cupcakes
Looks like the Googlers in the European headquarters are super into the World Cup. One of the restaurants has put together soccer style cupcakes for the employees, Googlers, there. We know some Googl