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 Makes Changes, Massive Algorithm Updates, Google Local Bus, AdSense Apps & Much More
This week I covered that Google updated their numbers on how much Google has changed in search over the years, that is over 3,200 changes in just a year. Google made about three algorithmic updates this week in search, something is going on but Google won't comment... - Fixed Now: Google My Business Removes Reinstatement Request Form
I get it Google, you can't handle all the Google Maps issues. You are seriously delayed with getting back to businesses. You are suspending businesses that should not be suspended. You are claiming those suspensions were fixed but they weren't. Now you drop the Google My Business local business reinstatement request? - Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Again, Bigger Now?
What is going on? Again, three times in about a week, we are seeing increase chatter and the tools are lighting up around a Google search ranking algorithm update. Yesterday morning the chatter once again spiked up and also many of the tools are showing huge fluctuations in the Google rankings. - Is Google News Violating Google's Webmaster Guidelines By Not Blocking Stories?
It looks like Google is not just indexing but also ranking Google News search results pages and landing pages in Google search. This comes shortly after Google reportedly dropped Bing Discover search results pages from its index allegedly because it violated the webmaster guidelines of not noindexing search result pages. - Google Live Streamed The Google Webmaster Conference In Kolkata
Google live streamed the almost 5 hours of their new Webmaster Conferences. Below is a recording of the Google Webmaster Conferences in Kolkata, India. - Easy Google Knowledge Panel Identity Theft?
Ari Roth from Five Blocks showed us how he was able to claim the knowledge graph profile of the American theatrical producer Ari Roth. In short, this is an issue with whomever at Google is manually reviewing this verification request of not doing their research and making a mistake. - Google Moon Landing Logo For 50th Anniversary
Today on Google's home page is a special Doodle, Google logo, for the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. When you click on the Doodle it plays a video of NASA's Apollo 11 mission with Michael Collins, one of the astronauts on Apollo 11 giving the narration of what happened. - Captain Encouragement Inspiring Google
Look who it is at Google's main headquarters, the GooglePlex - it is Captain Encouragement. I never hear of him but he travels the country inspiring people everywhere.
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Google Protest Leader Leaves, Hacker News
- References to medical/scientific on the "How Google featured snippets work" page: "Featured snippets about public interest content including civic, medical, scientific & historical issues should not lack well-established or expert, Glenn Gabe on Twitter
- Introducing new audiences for Search, Google Ads Help
- It's been 3 months since Adsense ads started disappearing sporadically. Ads come back and go back on their own. It takes over a month for them to come back and they vanish after 2 days. Google hasn't responded on th, Usama Mujtaba on Twitter
- Training your very own custom version of BERT is just a few clicks away on @Azure Machine Learning! Shout-out to my friends at @huggingface 🤗 whose work made this open source release possible!… https://t.co/FkBVLOc1tr, Frédéric Dubut on Twitter
- #WMConf2019 is in Mumbai today for a women-only event and the audience is absolutely brilliant! Probably the most intelligent and thoughtful audience i encountered lately!… https://t.co/gn01T6cMv2, Gary Illyes on Twitter
Search Engine Land Stories:
- When bad user-generated content happens to good businesses
- Heard from Google, the biggest trends impacting PPC are privacy and automation
- 3 things every CMO should know about the creative production process
- Emoji SEO presents opportunities for video
Other Great Search Stories:
Analytics
- Google, Firefox Browser Extensions Expose Data of 4 Million People, Consumer Reports
- Privacy Badger Starts Blocking Google Analytics, Decipher
Industry & Business
- Bigger Rewards for Security Bugs, Google Online Security Blog
- FY19 Q4 - Press Releases - Investor Relations, Microsoft
- Google and Facebook might be tracking your porn history, researchers warn, CNET
- Google's election ads report may not reveal Russian activity, 9to5Google
Local & Maps
- Q&A Auto-Suggest Featuring GMB Reviews, Q&A, Google Posts & Products, Claire Carlile Marketing
- Bing Maps gains improved real-time transit updates and alternate routes handling, VentureBeat
- Travel back in time with the 'Google Maps' of Ancient Rome, Euronews
Mobile & Voice
- First image leaks of purported Nokia Android feature phone, 9to5Google
- Gboard v8.5 prepares Google Assistant integration and enhanced auto-complete [APK Teardown], Android Police
- Google Assistant gets 'Journey to the Moon' game, 9to5Google
- Hands-on: GAssist brings Google Assistant to Samsung watches, XDA Developers
SEO
- 6 Tips For Less Turbulent Airfare & Hotel Website SEO, Conductor
- Canonical Tags: A Simple Guide for Beginners, Ahrefs
- How to Manage Out of Stock Products to Preserve Your SEO, Portent
- How To: Implement Robots Noindex Tag With Google Tag Manager, Organic Digital
- Technical Audits - 10 Points to Cover, State of Digital
- Aren't 301s, 302s, and Canonicals All Basically the Same? - Best of Whiteboard Friday, Moz
- Introduction to Power Query and Power Pivot for SEO, Builtvisible
PPC
- Actionable PPC Tips for Personal Injury Law, PPC Hero
- What Hotel Marketers Need to Know About the Migration to Google Ads, Hospitality Net
Search Features
- McClatchy and Google expand local news in Youngstown, Google Blog
Other Search
