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 Search Console: Preview AMP Presence Message
As we reported last week, Google began sending notifications via Google Search Console to non-news sites about getting their pages ready for AMP. Now, for sites that are ready for AMP but are not news... - SEO Tip: Don't Ask Google For Advice When You're Breaking The Webmaster Guidelines
I cover one of these every several months, where a webmaster is knowingly breaking the Google Webmaster guidelines and then seeks help from a Googler... - Google Keyword Planner Showing Data Ranges For Advertisers Without Campaigns, A Bug?
The Google AdWords community is scratching their heads this morning after trying to use the Google AdWords Keyword Planner and to find that it is only giving back data ranges when there is no campaign set up... - Google Testing New Review Stars Format
Google seems to be testing a new reviews stars format and user interface on mobile devices. The new format places the reviews summary below the snippet, as opposed to in the middle of the snippet... - Google Erroneously Warns Techmeme Of Hacked Spam Issues
Gabe Rivera, the founder of the awesome Techmeme site... - Google My Business Insights Statistics Broken?
It looks like the Google My Business insights section, where you can see statistics on your Google Maps / Local listings... - SEEOO Glasses - SEO Glasses For Better Rankings
@glynmusica shared on Twitter a picture of new glasses from SEEOO. They are SEO glasses and they make all your rankings better as soon as you put them on your face. Glyn said "first pair of self-opt
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- The unlikely solution is... to use a bit of code to analyze the image. Here, I…, Google+ - Dan Russell
- Walmart Acquires Jet.com for $3 billion, WebmasterWorld
- World Wide Web is 25 Years Old, WebmasterWorld
- AdSense outage, WebmasterWorld
- Do you (honestly) believe you MUST know HTML to create a successful online presence?, Gary Illyes on Twitter
- Serving & Ranking of Products on Google Shopping, The Google Advertiser Community
- Top 10 Advertiser Tips for Search Campaigns, The Google Advertiser Community