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 Adds Badges To Images Results For Recipes, Videos, Products & GIFs
Google just announced that they are now adding badges to the image search results on Google app for Android and mobile web. These badges describe an image if it is a recipe, video, product of animated GIF. This way before you click on it... - Google's Top Result For Cure For Cancer Says Carrot Juice Is The Cure
If you go to Google and search for [cure for cancer] the top organic result basically says doctors are lying and the cure to cancer is drinking carrot juice... - Google: Country-Region Code Letter Case Not Important
Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that going capital or lower case does not matter much when it comes to setting the country-region code in your XML sitemap files. He said either "en-US" OR "en-us" are perfectly fine to use... - Google: Structure Your XML Sitemap As You Like
Google loves XML Sitemaps, it gives their bots an easy way to discover all your content. Even better, it gives webmasters a way to see how many of their URLs in their sitemap file were indexed and which URLs were not... - Google AdWords Ads Looking More Like Organic Results
There were a few tweets that caught my eye the other day from @ppchubbub and @dannayroberts that show off Google AdWords ads that really start to look more and more like the organic listings. The only real difference is the ad label... - Google Lighthouse Wall Sign
Here is a photo I found on Instagram from Tina who took a picture of one of the signs at the Google Hong Kong office. You can see they have a logo with a lighthouse replacing the L and life preservers
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- See how your feedback has reshaped Bing Ads in the first half of 2017. Have suggestions? Share your thoughts with us https://t.co/cmDQ8PlEQo https://t.co/HrSKAMeoAQ, Bing Ads on Twitter
- @srohitgautam Fixing issues on a website is generally a good thing, but probably won't affect a webspam manual action., John Mueller on Twitter
- As long as your ads don't exceed your content, Google AdSense - Google+
- August 2017 AdSense Earnings & Observations, WebmasterWorld
- Bad SEO Tip #37: Increase visitor dwell time by slowing down page load speed, Cyrus on Twitter
- From live gigs to summer festivals, now you can easily find and explore events happening in the UK, right on Search, Google UK - Google+
- German Court Rules Companies Can't Use Keyloggers as Evidence for Employee Dismissal, WebmasterWorld
- Google Search Console shows links from unknown and unavailable source, WebmasterWorld
- Google's Shopper Tracking Attracts Complaint to FTC, WebmasterWorld
