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 Deadline For Mobile-First Indexing Now March 2021, Not September 2020
Google, as expected, has decided to push off the deadline for going 100% into mobile-first indexing. The previous deadline was September 2020, but after COVID hit, Google said they may push this deadline back to give site owners more time to prepare during this time. Google decided this morning to push the deadline to March 2021. - Google Ads Editor v1.4 Adds Recommendations, Local Campaigns & More
Google released version 1.4 of the Google Ads Editor. This comes a few months after version 1.3 was released. In version 1.4, Google added recommendations, local campaigns and much more. - Google Site Command & Navigational Query Operators Failed Yesterday
Yesterday for a period of a few hours, you may have been unable to find the site or content you were looking for on Google Search. Google said it had an issue with some navigational queries and site commands. - Google Shopping Sponsored Web Results With Material Label
You know when you go shopping, either online or offline, and you get the shirt in your hand, you look at the label and it tells you the materials it was made of? Well, Google is testing showing you that information before you buy, before you even click to buy, directly from the Google Shopping ads at the top of the web results. - Bing URL Submissions Plugin To Get Your WordPress Content Indexed Fast
Bing announced a new WordPress plugin that integrates your WordPress site with the Bing Webmaster Tools URL submission API. In short, the plugin looks for new and updated content and automatically submits it to Bing for fast indexing. - Microsoft Advertising Now Offers Free ShutterStock Photos For Image Ads
Microsoft announced yesterday it is offering free high quality images from ShutterStock for use in Microsoft Advertising's image ads. "To help you find the right images for your campaigns, we're partnering with Shutterstock to provide you free access to over 320 million high-quality, advertising-ready images for use in Microsoft Advertising," Microsoft said. - Google Water Tank
Here is a photo of the outside of the Google Waterloo, Canada office building. I bet it is no surprise that Google painted the water (might not be for water) tank white with the Google logo printed o
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- I've never seen Image SERP results segmented by "Latest" in this way before, has anyone else? cc: @rustybrick #SEO https://t.co/g1b0rVx1eK", Mordy Oberstein on Twitter
- v9 is out! https://t.co/ug9q41AjEu In this episode https://t.co/ooIuC1elTy learns more about LearningResources e.g. Quizzes; & to organize products into ProductGroups, to understand that some products, Dan Brickley on Twitter
Search Engine Land Stories:
- Guide to Core Web Vitals for SEOs and Developers
- Google site command bug being fixed
- Bing published WordPress plugin to submit content immediately to Bing’s search index
- Microsoft Advertising offers free stock images for Audience ads
- Replay: The ins and outs of Shopify SEO
- Join us online Oct 6-8 for MarTech
- News filter added to Google Search Console performance report
Other Great Search Stories:
Analytics
- Enhance Data Visualization With Google Data Studio Reports, Rubicom Digital
- How to Prepare Your Analytics for a Domain Migration, Seer Interactive
- Marketers Guide to Multi-Channel Attribution, Ruler Analytics
Industry & Business
- Women at Google miss out on thousands of dollars as a result of pay discrimination, lawsuit, The Guardian
- Zoom should be worried as Google rolls out new Meet feature, T3
Links & Content Marketing
Local & Maps
- How attributes are transforming Google My Business, DAC
- Proximity Third: A Deeper Dive into a Local Ranking Factors Surprise, Moz
Mobile & Voice
- Netflix arrives on Nest Hub and Hub Max, Google Blog
SEO
- How to Prioritize SEO Content Topics, Seer Interactive
- What Are Keywords? How to Use Them for SEO, Ahrefs
- What You Need to Know About XML Sitemaps, Know Agency
- JavaScript Rendering Q&A With Google’s Martin Splitt, Botify
- Update: Coronavirus and Google Search – These Domains Have Grown during the Crisis, Search Metrics
PPC
- COVID-19 insights & trends - July 21 edition, Microsoft Advertising
- Discovery Ads for New Customer Acquisition, PPC Hero
- Activating vertical trends: search and native, Microsoft Advertising
