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:
- Are Google Mobile Searches Now 65% Of All Searches
Greg Sterling was at the Engage conference last week and tweeted that a Google representative said that 65% of all searches are mobile. He didn't say which Googler said this, it doesn't seem to have been confirmed to have been said and I have not seen a Googler say this before. - Tell Google What You Want On The Google Search Developer Portal
Martin Splitt from Google asked the SEO community what they want to see on the Google Search Developer docs that is not currently there. Martin wrote "if you could ask me to explain something about Google Search that isn't on developers.google.com/search yet, what would that be." - Google Search Team Stricter With Google's Internal SEO Team
John Mueller from Google said that the Google search team is very strict with Google's internal SEO team. He said on Reddit "I imagine the SEO team at Google has a pretty hard time comparatively, given how strictly we separate the rest of search from their side." - Google Still Working On Evergreen GoogleBot Support For Tools
Back in May, three months ago, Google released the evergreen GoogleBot. Basically GoogleBot is on the same version as your version of Chrome, which gives Google more capabilities to crawl and access your web pages. But the tools, tools within Google Search Console and other tools are still not yet using the evergreen GoogleBot. - Google Local Pack Tests Image Carousel For Each Local Listing
Google is crazed about carousels and here is another format of the Google local pack. This local pack shows not one image, but an image carousel per local listing in the local pack. - Rare Photo: Gary Illyes From Google Smiling
Gary Illyes from Google is not of the smilers - in fact, it is rare to get him on camera smiling. Well, his co-worker, Takeaki Kanaya, captured him smiling and posted the photo on Twitter.
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Gallery ads (beta) available in 11 languages globally, Google Ads Help
- Google suspended all my 125 locations :( What to do?, Local Search Forum
- I totally sympathize with that; at scale, it's hard... but still, it feels a bit lazy. I imagine content & artwork guidelines are a bit more granular; why not references? Is it a matter of a missing up-side?, John Mueller on Twitter
- No, we crawl the urls as we discover them., John Mueller on Twitter
- @sundarpichai of Google was in the Oval Office working very hard to explain how much he liked me, what a great job the Administration is doing, that Google was not involved with China’s military, that they didn’t help, Donald J. Trump on Twitter
Search Engine Land Stories:
- Review counts matter more to local business revenue than star ratings, according to study
- Microsoft acquires e-commerce advertising vendor PromoteIQ
- Video: Catalyst’s Paul Shapiro on going beyond technical SEO
Other Great Search Stories:
Analytics
- 7 Tricks to get the most out of Google Analytics Reports, RankWatch Blog
- Digital Debrief – Streamview in Google Analytics, Krista Seiden
- What are the benefits of Google Tag Manager?, UPLARN
Industry & Business
- Google Employee Alleges Discrimination Against Pregnant Women in Viral Memo, VICE
- Our hardware sustainability commitments, Google Blog
- Senators Urge Google to Give Temporary Workers Full-Time Status, New York Times
- How much does Google know about you? – podcast, The Guardian
- Microsoft acquires NYC-based marketing tech provider PromoteIQ, OnMSFT
- The State of SEO According to Barry Schwartz: In Search SEO Podcast, RankRanger
- Trump, without evidence, accuses Google of illegally swinging election, CNBC
Local & Maps
- Google is shutting down its Trips app, TechCrunch
- Apple CarPlay (iOS 13) review 2019: New design, dark mode, better maps and more, CarAdvice
Mobile & Voice
- Amazon Echo Auto review: So... how dumb is your car?, The Verge
- Building a smart home: How Google Assistant powers my life, Android Central
SEO
- Google Knowledge Graph Reconciliation, SEO By The Sea
- Yoast SEO 11.8: Improving Yoast SEO with the help of the community, Yoast
PPC
- DCM/DFA Reporting and Trafficking API v3.2 sunset reminder, Google Ads Developer Blog
- Google shows shopping results for 100-bullet magazines, despite its gun ad ban, The Verge
- Lessons Learned as a PPC Analyst, PPC Hero
- Survey: 76% of Marketers Now Taking a Strategic Approach to Managing Content, KoMarketing
