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:
- AMP Powers Google Featured Snippets On Mobile
Google seems to have made a switch a few days ago where on mobile search they are now likely to serve featured snippets from pages that are powered by AMP. @thefke and @glenngabe were one of the first to notice this and I am able to replicate it... - Google Mobile Search App Links Offers Open Web Page Button
It has been some time since we talked about Google App Indexing but John Lincoln spotted an interesting change for mobile search that brings up app indexing results on Android in Google... - Publishers Implement AMP Teaser To Lead To "Full Experience" Page
Will Jacobsen shared on Twitter a GIF of the walkthrough of how NBC News does have AMP pages, they do rank in the top stories carousel in the Google mobile results... - Google: Build Desktop To Mobile Friendly Comparison Tool
With the Google mobile friendly index still in progress on Google's end... - Labor Day Google Doodle, Bing Theme & More
Today is Labor Day, an official US holiday, that happens on the first Monday in September. "It honors the American labor movement and the contributions that workers have made to the strength, prosperity, laws and well-being of the country," says Wikipedia... - Google Theatre
Here is a photo of one of the large presentation rooms at the Google European HQ. You can see the theatre like stadium chairs, some of the chairs are not the standard color but get Googled out. Ther
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- "the article’s sole intention was to improve search engine optimisation and was never actually intended to be read" https://t.co/cPF6ZOXYGV, John Mueller on Twitter
- @christian_wilde @MattTutt1 Sitelinks are algorithmic, essentially normal search results -- they don't always show the same way for all queries / settings, John Mueller on Twitter
- @tisamit Best practice is to make your site for your users., John Mueller on Twitter
- Instead of trying to build tools to write artificially in 'natural language' for SEO, why not just write naturally like humans ;P ;P ;P ;P, Dawn Anderson on Twitter
