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:
- The Google Intrusive Interstitials Mobile Penalty Coming January 10, 2017
As I reported yesterday on Search Engine Land, Google announced they are launching a new search algorithm penalty, to demote mobile pages that have "intrusive" interstitials that get in the users way... - Google To Drop Mobile Friendly Label But Not The Ranking Factor
Google announced yesterday that they are dropping the mobile friendly label from the mobile search results. Let me be crystal clear, like I was yesterday... - Bing Ads Opens Expanded Text Ads To All Customers
As you know, Bing Ads announced back in June they are going to go with expanded text ads. Well now Bing has opened up expanded text ads to all customers, they said in a blog post yesterday. Like Google AdWords... - Google: 410 Response Codes Don't Generally Cause Indexing Issues
Google has said time and time again that 404s are normal, they don't cause penalties or indexing issues. But a similar question came up about 410s... - Google Home Services Ad Testing Carousel Layout On Mobile
In September, Google added home services ads to the AdWords offerings. Since then, the design has changed for the ad format over the past several months. Now... - Google Pool Table Sticks & Cue
@perkynm shared on Twitter some photos from her tour of the Google office. Here is a picture of a wall at Google, you can see some posters, a grungy Google logo and pool sticks and cue on the wall.
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Google keeps ex-Googlers close by investing in their startups, WebmasterWorld
- How many islands? And how near? This week, I show you how to compute this on…, Google+ - Dan Russell
- Just how powerful is Google Search Console's 'Submit to Index' feature? I recorded this short video to demonstrate: https://t.co/AHjR7pPTac, Barry Adams on Twitter
