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 To Penalize Widget Links Tactics
Google announced early this morning that they are reminding webmasters to not try to use widget links as a link building strategy... - Google Testing Bolder AMP Logo In Search Results
Google is testing displaying a darker and bolder AMP logo in the mobile search results. Typically the logo is grayed out a bit, but here at least as captured by Mats Tolander on Twitter... - Search Engine Strategies, Industries First Conference Shuts Down
Sad news for the industry broke yesterday, although there is no official word from the owners of Search Engine Strategies. The conference program founded by Danny Sullivan back in November 18, 1999 in San Francisco under the Search Engine Watch brand... - Google Analytics Working On Real Time Reporting Fix; Here Is A Workaround
Yesterday we reported that Google Analytics real time reporting feature was not working for many webmasters and marketers. No worries, Google is now aware of the issue and promises a fix will be out within 24 hours or so... - Google Search Console Search Analytics Report Fix
Monday we reported that the Google Search Console's Search Analytics report bugged out at the worst time, right in time for folks to not be able to see how they were hit by the Google weekend update. Well, it was a bug and Google is now in the process of fixing it now... - Google Featured Snippets With Query Modifier
Pete Meyers spotted and posted on Twitter another flavor of the featured snippets... - Google Already Preparing For Their 18th Birthday
Google's official birthday is on September 27th, although they've celebrated it on different dates in the past, the 27th is what they've used for the past several years. So when I saw pictures at Goo
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Google Q&A Crawling&Rendering, webpromo.expert
- Massive jumps in GSC legacy crawl errors - who sees this?, WebmasterWorld
- I love how @dmrussell digs into potentially pseudo-scientific claims: https://t.co/ekLSHwhqs8 - be critical & practice finding the sources!, John Mueller on Twitter
- New in #BingAds: Compare your performance between two time periods: https://t.co/JGraxSxR3W https://t.co/DqPByG8Pub, Bing Ads on Twitter
- Report: Twitter May Consider Selling the Business, WebmasterWorld
- September 7th Apple Announcements, WebmasterWorld
