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: Pinterest Google Spam, Search Console Data, Quality Raters & More
This past week we posted our monthly Google Webmaster Report. Are spammers using Pinterest to abuse Google... - August 2017 Google Webmaster Report
This past month, the big items probably was the reveal of the beta Google Search Console amongst a lot of the bugs in the past month with that. Google's algorithm potentially... - Google Shopping Ads Tests Stores In Carousel Format
Josh Leibner notified me on Twitter of Google testing a out a new format for the Google Shopping Ads. In this format... - Google My Business In Search Edit Adds More Features
In June we reported Google began testing in search mini Google My Business dashboards that let business owners see their business profile and edit a lot of their local information right in the search results... - Google Quality Raters Guidelines Updated With Conspiracy Theories & Non-English Results
Google has updated their quality raters guidelines on July 27, 2017. Previously it was updated on May 11, 2017 with some smaller changes and then the bigger changes on March 14, 2017 with the offensive, upsetting... - More Google Interface Design Testing...
Sergey Alakov has spotted even more Google tests with their mobile search user interface and design. He has captured screen shots of Google testing green hyperlinks, yellow stars, bolder fonts, rounder corners, green AMP logos, rounded green call to action buttons... - Google Champagne Glass
Would you drink champagne out of a glass with a Google logo on it? Well Monica Dinculescu, a Google engineer, did the other day. Here is a photo from her with her champagne in a Google branded champa - Google Zurich Office Held Up By Two Trees
I spotted a photo on Instagram from the Google Zurich office showing part of the building being held up by two large tree trunks. Andres Herzog who posted the photo said they are currently undergoing
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- @BradDLongman @methode We use a number of factors to pick a canonical URL, not just the link element., John Mueller on Twitter
- GMB Messaging Feature - Thoughts?, Local Search Forum
- Being a Webmaster, WebmasterWorld
- Facebook Will Rank Faster Loading Pages In The Newsfeed, WebmasterWorld
- You really need to get all over Varvy's resources and tools. Amongst the best go to's. e.g. -> https://t.co/JiAGXU7LZJ, Dawn Anderson on Twitter
