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 Implies Uploading Your Products To Amazon's Marketplace Can Hurt Your Rankings
Google hints at how having a web site and also being in the Amazon marketplace with the same products for sale can impact your site's performance in Google search. Google wants to show diverse search results. - SEO Tip: Don't Do As Google Does, Do As They Say
Just because Google sets up a subfolder over a subdomain or uses a 302 redirect over a 301 redirect - it doesn't mean Google made that decision for SEO reasons. So don't just blindly follow what Google does. - Google: We Don't Understand Regions; We Do Understand Countries & Metros
Google has confirmed that when it comes to hreflang annotations, they support it for countries and not regions. Gary Illyes explains why Google doesn't think it is a good thing to support this at the regional level. - Bing Webmaster Tools API Fixed After Almost A Month
After almost a month of the Bing Webmaster Tools API not returning results due to a technical glitch, Microsoft has just confirmed they fixed the issue. They apologized for the frustration and promised to do better. - Google Local "You Recently Viewed" Search Panel
Google is now showing you a personalized search carousel for recently viewed vacation destinations in Google search. Clearly Google thinks you really should book that vacation. - Google Home Mini Golf Area
We have seen Google offices with miniature golf before but here is one space at Google selling Google Home devices with mini golf. Maybe a play off the name Google Home Mini or maybe not, here is a p
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Ad Grants launches a Certified Professionals Community, The Google Advertiser Community
- 500% increase between June and July - Google AdSense, WebmasterWorld
- “This week, HSBC, a financial institution with around 3,900 offices in 67 cou..., Google+ - Google
- “Today, the European Commission issued a competition decision against Android..., Google+ - Google
- Introducing https://t.co/tSG0wjCLp0 Check out and bookmark this link to stay updated with latest news and announcements from Google Ads ;)!… https://t.co/dAn5VOb1pW, Google Ads on Twitter
- We'll get this fixed.…, Danny Sullivan on Twitter
Search Engine Land Stories:
- Google search adds dataset schema support to search results
- Google adds deep breathing exercises to search results
- You need 23 keywords in a blog post to rank well. Not.
- The ultimate guide to HTTP status codes and headers for SEO
- Bing Maps adds build and share your itinerary
Other Great Search Stories:
Analytics
- Google Analytics: Dissecting Bounce Rates for Ecommerce, Practical Ecommerce
- The 8 Most Important Google Analytics Filters, Loves Data
Industry & Business
- Google Kent Walker SVP of Global Affairs , CNBC
- Meet the rising stars at Google, Business Insider
Links & Promotion Building
- How to Qualify Sites for Link Outreach, Siege Media
- Link Reclamation: How to Easily Find (and Reclaim) Lost Backlinks, ahrefs.com
- What is Link Building?, Vertical Measures
Local & Maps
- Is Google My Business Sending People to your FAX Machine?, mockingbird.marketing
- 5 Areas of Local SEO For B2B Marketing, KoMarketing
Mobile & Voice
SEO
- Content maintenance for SEO: research, merge & redirect, Yoast
- Quality Scores for Queries: Structured Data, Synthetic Queries and Augmentation Queries, SEO By The Sea
- 9 Things You Didn't Know to Achieve a High Ranking on Google, Search Engine Guide
- Better Than Basics: Custom-Tailoring Your SEO Approach, Moz
- How to Make Dynamic Content Personalization Work for Your Company, SEM Rush
- Want Better SEO? Stop Writing Content., Go Fish Digital
PPC
- A Manual Bidding Process for an Automated World, Search Engine Journal
- How to Improve Your Landing Page Quality Score (video), Brad Geddes
Other Search
- The “Why” of Search – Understanding Search Intent, redcanoemedia.com
- YouTube web player now adapts to different aspect ratios, Android Police
