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:
- Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: July 17, 2015
This week in search, we covered how you may be too late to make changes to your site to be ready for the next Google Panda refresh. Google has not yet - Google Sitemaps Shows Declines In Index Count, It's A Bug
There are tons and tons of complaints and concerns posted in the Google Webmaster Forums and posted on Twitter and Google+ about the Google Search Console showing huge drops in the index counts in the Sitemaps report... - Google Mobile Friendly Update June 14th? Nope.
Normally I try to pick up on the Google algorithm changes early on. So when I saw Eric Enge post on Google+ about a mobile friendly update that he thinks touched down on June 14th, I scratched my head. Normally I'd pick up on that on June 15th... - Google Feedback Requested: How Would You Improve The Search Console Messaging
Mariya Moeva from Google posted this week on Google+ that Google is looking for feedback on how to improve the overall messaging and notification system within the Google Search Console... - SPA (Single-Page Application) Web Pages & Pre-Render Services Is Okay With Google
There are many ways to build web sites, some are better for Google and some are not. Going with SPA (single-page application) approach provides some of those challenges. But one developer - Googler's Platforms Team Batting At AT&T Park
Richard Hay and the Platforms team at Google had their summer picnic at AT&T Park in San Francisco this week. He posted a few pictures, but here is one of a Googler in the batting cage. Not a bad sw
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Spamming parasite pages still work?, blackhatworld.com
- #tbt to our 'Search-Friendly Mobile Sites' presentation originally presented to…, Google+ - Google Webmasters
- @ParmarDivyesh86 @rustybrick @seroundtable @sejournal errrr, no. They didnt. Here: http://t.co/vRGssl3T0m, Martin Macdonald on Twitter
- Great video about search console and app indexing +Mariya Moeva nice one! , Google+ - Fili Wiese
- Just another announcement (in case you haven't seen this already). , Google+ - Dan Russell
- Remarketing lists for search ads (RLSA) policy Remarketing lists for search…, Google+ - Google Ads
- @marieldoesseo In those cases you can point just not use x-default at all. No need to send the users to an irrelevant page., Gary Illyes on Twitter