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 Ranking Update Brewing? Early Signs Of Algorithm Shifts.
I am seeing super early signs of a Google search algorithm update brewing right now. There is some early limited chatter as of early this morning in the forums and on social media. Some of the automated tracking tools also are picking up changes, while some are not. So it is super early but something might be brewing - we should know more within 24 hours or so. - Google: You Can Place Your Company Reviews From 3rd Parties On Your Web Site
Google's John Mueller said he doesn't see an SEO problem with taking reviews left about your company on Google Maps, Yelp and other third party web sites and copying some of them or all of them to your own web site to showcase them. He said the one thing you should not do is markup them with review markup since they were not originated from your site. - Google Datasets Search - Searching Large Dataset Databases
Yesterday, as everyone is reporting, Google launched Google Dataset Search. A way to search datasets from environmental and social sciences, government, and ProPublica-style news organizations. The cool thing is this is all powered from the datasets schema that has been available for some time now. - Google: Don't Publish Articles On How To Break Our TOS & Guidelines
Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that he finds it awkward when he reads articles and how-to guides on techniques on breaking Google's terms of service (TOS) and their webmaster guidelines. He replied to an article written on Search Engine Journal about scraping Google's search results. - Google's John Mueller: I'm Not A Fan Of The Anonymous Queries Reporting Change
We covered the change to the Google Search Console performance and search analytics reports several times here, where Google dropped the anonymous queries figure from the sum of the overall queries filtered output. This resulted in a ton of confusion and John Mueller from Google said on Reddit, he wasn't exactly a fan of making this change. - Google Pedicab
Last year we showed a picture of a Google branded cycle rickshaw or pedicab in the Google Bangkok office. Google has a similar larger one in the Google Singapore that seats more Googlers. This was sh
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- AFAIK we don't have any information on ranking within Google For Jobs., John Mueller on Twitter
- Portuguese community - We have a new policy video 'Entenda a política de Inventário valioso'. We will be adding 6 more videos too so check them out! For our English speaking followers we also have an English version about th, Google AdSense on Twitter
- This is also how search works. We organise every page on the index by color. Helps with speedy retrieval…, Gary Illyes on Twitter
- What is the awesome way to get backlinks from Wikipedia? : SEO, Reddit
Search Engine Land Stories:
- Using Voice Search to Transform Your Local Search Strategy
- 6 ways the August core algorithm update impacted local business
- Google gives thumbs-up on placing your local reviews from Yelp, Google Maps and others on your own website
Other Great Search Stories:
Analytics
- The New Wave of Digital Innovation: Augmented Analytics, Analytics Pros
Industry & Business
- Google is still at odds over industry GDPR standards, Digiday
- The monopoly-busting case against Google, Amazon, Uber, and Facebook, The Verge
Links & Promotion Building
Local & Maps
- Location data platform Factual raises $42M, TechCrunch
- Google Lowers Seller Ratings Threshold To 100 Reviews, Reviews
Mobile & Voice
- Google Assistant Misplaces Its Accent and Its "Hey, Google" Command, Digital Trends
- Google AMP Can Go To Hell, Polemic Digital
- Report: Mobile Organic Search Visits on the Rise, KoMarketing
SEO
- How Google May Use Reviews to Learn About Entity Attributes, Go Fish Digital
- Top 5 Game-Changing SEO Trends Dominating 2018, Search Engine Guide
- Are you a Google Dork? Protecting against Google Hacking, Verve Developments
- Did You Feel the Web Rumble? Overcoming Major Algorithm Updates, KobeDigital
- JavaScript SEO 101: How to Crawl JavaScript, Conductor
PPC
- How to Test Google Ads Smart Bidding Strategies, Metric Theory
Search Features
- The search for JOMO: New research on digital wellbeing, Google Blog
- Introducing the Inclusive Images Competition, Google AI Blog
Other Search
- 10 Years of Chrome DevTools, Chromium Blog
