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 Brain Canada: Google Search Uses Click Data For Rankings?
Mike Kilinski attended the annual Think Auto Google event in Toronto, Canada last week at that event, the head of Google Brain in Canada said that Google now uses click data for rankings... - Google: Technically 404s Do Use Up Google Crawl Budget
Google's John Mueller said on Twitter the other day that crawl budget is technically used when Google tries to access 404/410 page not found URLs... - Google: Spammy Structured Data Markup Still An Issue
Since Google released rich snippets, spammers have been trying to spam the rich snippets. Over the years, as far back as 2012, Google has been asking you to report these attempts to them. And yes, Google does take action on rich snippet spam... - Google Mocks Line: SEOs Don't Need To Set Up 301 Redirects
The folks at Screaming Frog posted on Twitter a statement made by a developer telling their SEO team that they don't need to set up 301 redirects because Google is able to figure it out automatically... - New Google Search Console Beta Data To Come To API In Future
Everyone I know is excited for the new Google Search Console Beta to be released to them, there is some added reporting functionality that more and more want to see. But not everyone has access to it yet... - Google Baby Clothing
Here is a photo I found on Instagram, probably from the Google store on their campus, showcasing some of the baby clothing Google sells in that store. I believe you can buy most of this on the online
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- @dsottimano @jakebohall Nope. If you let your domain expire, you won't see the requests in your server logs anymore, but that might be overkill in some cases., John Mueller on Twitter
- @rjonesx @Google I think people will bring out the pitchforks if we try to play that card again, Gary Illyes on Twitter
- A quick PSA: AGoogleADay.com is back up and serving up the tastiest research..., Google+ - Dan Russell
- @i_praveensharma @methode If you're forward-looking, then I'm sure you've already moved your sites to https, so I wouldn't worry about it :-), John Mueller on Twitter
- Drop in rank after implementing Https, WebmasterWorld
- Effect of Staging Environment Indexing + Search Console Stats, WebmasterWorld
- What Is Current Thinking About .co Does Google treat it as geo or global?, WebmasterWorld
