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:
- Bing Webmaster Tools API Down For Over 5 Days
Mike Sullivan noticed that the Bing Webmaster API has been down for over five days now. I had him share a screen shot with me of it failing and he did so. In short... - Real-Time Google Trends Excludes Many Countries In Filters
If you go to Google Trends you can filter those trends by country and the list of countries available is massive but when you go to the real time trends section, that list is a small fraction of countries you are able to filter by... - Google Says Pick One Testing Tool For Measuring Page Speed
As you all know very well, the Google Speed Update has begun rolling out and while it is a bit too early to see the impact SEOs and webmasters are super eager to make sure their web pages do not get dinged by this update... - Google Representatives Are People With Feelings
During my morning research for what is going on in the SEO community... - Google Japan Has Interesting Furniture
Danny Sullivan was at the Google Japan office and snapped some pictures of interesting objects at that office and posted them on Twitter. Truth is, I am not even sure what these are, looks like some
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- I think these "save in your lists" buttons in restaurants' local finder look new. They are only there if you are signed in. cc:@rustybrick… https://t.co/0ForOXdPu5, Sergey Alakov on Twitter
- I wouldn't rely on a tool like GTM to add structured data -- it can work, but it shouldn't be your primary way of integrating structured data.… https://t.co/ZCLCUf8iuL, John Mueller on Twitter
- Ok , Check it out! #GoogleDataStudio now allows "data blending" . Here's an example - only takes a couple clicks. I joined @googleanalytics and @googlewmc search console data to show impressions, clicks and pageviews combined. Roll, Lee Hurst on Twitter
- We tend not to share product timelines ahead of time, sorry.…, John Mueller on Twitter
- Hi there, thanks for reaching out! Smart Campaigns will be available in the US and Australia in late July as Google Ads launches. We will continue to roll out globally over the next months. Feel free to reach out to us if you, Google AdWords on Twitter
- It's ALIVE! Sparkscore: our new, 100% free tool that calculates the true reach+influence of a Twitter account: https://t.co/x8aKFQIGEz… https://t.co/oDowQONkht, Rand Fishkin on Twitter
Search Engine Land Stories:
- Google Posts adds ‘call now’ button
- Google brings Hotel Ads into the Google Ads platform, updates feed management hub
- Google shows ‘People also search for’ suggestions in ad results, too
- Do Google reviews impact local ranking?
- Ex-Googler John Giannandrea takes charge of Siri
- Bing is testing an ‘open in new window’ icon in the search results
Other Great Search Stories:
Industry & Business
Links & Promotion Building
- Anchor Text Best Practices For Internal Links: How To Implement Keywords Without Risk, Social Patterns
Local & Maps
- Satellite view added to Google Maps on Android Auto head units, Android Police
- This GPS Spoofing Hack Can Really Mess Up Your Google Maps Trips, Forbes
SEO
- 7 Ways In Which SMEs Can Use Majestic For Content Marketing, Majestic Blog
- Google Ranking Factors with Cyrus Shepard, Siege Media
- Why Investing In Professional SEO Is Critical, Know Agency
PPC
- AdWords click measurement improvements and migration, Google Ads Developer Blog
- Automated Bidding Strategies By The Numbers, PPC Hero
- Grow Your PPC Ecommerce Revenue With Quote Request Tracking, Metric Theory
- Using Redirects Can Impact Google AdWords Quality Score, The SEM Post
Search Features
- SearchResearch Challenge (6/11/18): How do you plot out data by region? The case of regional boundaries., SearchReSearch
- Bing Testing Feature to Open Search Results in New Tab, The SEM Post
Other Search
- Google Enables "Site Isolation" Feature for 99% of Chrome Desktop Users, Bleeping Computer
- Serverless AMP solution on AWS, Accelerated Mobile Pages Project
