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: Crawling SPA (Single-Page Application) Isn't Easy But Can Work
Google's John Mueller was asked about how GoogleBot handles crawling, indexing and ranking SPAs, single page applications on the web... - Google IP Lookup Works In English & With IPv6 Addresses
Google has had the ability to look up your IP address for years now... - Google Search Tests Hotel Prices By Day Chart
Masaki Okazawa from Merkle posted on Twitter a test Google is trying in search to show hotel prices for a specific hotel over a specific date range directly in the search results... - Stone Temple Consulting Acquired By Perficient: Huge Congrats To Eric & Team
As many of you saw, Stone Temple Consulting was acquired by the publicly traded company Perficient - here is the press release. Eric Enge and his wife own the company, but most of you just know Eric... - Google Is Hiring Webmaster Outreach Folks In Mountain View & Hyderabad
Once again, if you are interested in joining Google to deal with webmaster outreach and support related issues and deal with all the abuse they take... - Danny Sullivan Given A Google Dance Tokyo Shirt In Japan
While Danny Sullivan who is now at Google didn't make it to the Google Dance Tokyo event, he was still able to get his hands on one of those limited Google Dance Tokyo t-shirts. He visited the Google
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- You shouldn't need to do that, as the feature is deprecated. I'll pass the feedback along.…, Danny Sullivan on Twitter
- A question I got today: "But why did this publisher use #AMP for their list page? Isn't AMP just for landing pages?" PSA time: AMP is for any and all pages! It's faster than most things even without AMP cache and here's why:, Andrey Lipattsev on Twitter
- Block Adblockers, scripts and tips to increase Adsense revenue, WebmasterWorld
- Microsoft Calls for Federal Regulation of Facial Recognition, WebmasterWorld
- Way To Check Compliance Before Account Shut Off, The Google Advertiser Community
Search Engine Land Stories:
- 15 checks you should make when choosing a link partner
- Google Image search updates referrer URL to help publishers track image search traffic
- Google releases AMP Stories v1.0 with new features, including an ads beta for DFP users
- Google expands job search to the UK
Other Great Search Stories:
Analytics
- An update to referral source URLs for Google Images, Official Google Webmaster Central Blog
Industry & Business
Links & Promotion Building
Local & Maps
- 67% of Smartphone Users Prefer Google Maps, Will They Find Your Business There?, Small Business Trends
- Google Maps could affect house prices as traffic in big cities increases, Domain
Mobile & Voice
- On-page SEO for Natural Language Processing (NLP), Briggsby
- The state of mobile voice search in 2018, Econsultancy
- Voice-Search Stats, Facts, and Tips, Marketing Infographic
SEO
- Optimize Your Load Speeds or Lose Visitors (and Revenue), Red Canoe Media
- 37 SEO WordPress Plugins Which Can Help Improve Your Rankings, Jeff Bullas
- Does Syndicated Content Work? Will It Help or Will It Hurt Your SEO?, Cognitive SEO
- The Google Featured Snippet Optimization Tool by Ninjas, Internet Marketing Ninjas
- The Local SEO’s Guide to the Buy Local Phenomenon: A Competitive Advantage for Clients, Moz
- Trapped In Google's New Video Carousels - A Dangerous SERP Feature For Some Ecommerce Retailers [Case Study], GSQI
PPC
- New in AMP stories: Monetization, Revamped bookends and Metadata, Accelerated Mobile Pages Project
- How to use Attribution Models to Evaluation Your Channels and Set Your Bids, Brad Geddes
- Introducing 'In-Market' for Search and 'Life Events' Targeting, Hallam
Search Features
- Helping more people in the U.K. find their next job, Google Blog
- Stay on top of your day with proactive help from your Assistant, Google Blog
Other Search
