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:
- Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Featured Spam, Google Local Messaging, Bing Popular Content & Rand Fishkin Leaving Moz
This week in search we saw a possible Google update over the weekend which died down a lot since. We saw our first case of image based featured snippet spam. Google Images now shows videos and recipe data in the results. Google published an FAQ around job postings for webmasters... - Rand Fishkin To Leave Moz, The SEO Company He Founded
By now, most of you heard the news that Rand Fishkin is transitioning out of Moz, the company he founded 16 years ago. I've known Rand since 2005 or so, when he and I were moderators back at some old SEO forums... - Google's John Mueller More Sarcastic With His SEO Advice?
As many of you know, at least the ones who read here daily, you know I am a very sarcastic person, even in my writing. You might also know that Gary Illyes from Google can also be fairly sarcastic. John Mueller... - Google Maps Suggest An Edit Works Fast
As many of you know, when you search for a local place, the local panel will come up with information on that place. This is also the case with searching in Google Maps... - Google Tests Rounded Buttons For People Also Search For
Google is testing yet another user interface variation for the people also search for function in the search results. This new test is showing rounded corners for the button... - You Rock Google Cake
Here is a photo of a cake I found on Instagram, posted by Grace Sutton. It looked Googlely to me, so I dug deeper and supposedly it is a cake for the Google Digital garage. This is for an event in th
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Are you creating custom URLs for your ad campaigns? Learn more about what's d..., Google+ - Google Business
- Google Has Built a London Data Center For Cloud Computing, WebmasterWorld
- #AdWords friends... here's a nice New AdWords Reporting 101 video..., Google+ - Jon Diorio
- High Quality Link Acquistion in 2017, WebmasterWorld