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 Algorithm Update On September 16th
I was incredibly tempted to do a special alert news story Saturday night on a Google algorithm update that seems to have touched down Saturday morning or late Friday but I decided to see how the Sunday chatter around it would be... - Google: Search Algorithm Monitoring Tools Get It Right
At the Brighton SEO conference, Gary Illyes from Google said that the third party SEO or search ranking algorithm monitoring tools tend... - New Google AdSense Auto Ads Beta
It looks like Google AdSense has launched a new ad code type for publishers named Auto ads. I don't have much information on this beta outside of this help document and this WebmasterWorld thread. Now... - Google: There Is No Top Three Search Ranking Signals
A year and a half ago, Google's Andrey Lipattsev who has not been in the public eye since, listed off Google's top three ranking factors as content, links and RankBrain. It was a fun time for us search reporters, as you can imagine... - Samuel Johnson Gets A Dictionary Google Logo
Today's Google logo, Doodle, on the home page of Google.com is for Samuel Johnson, aka Dr. Johnson... - Google Ball Chairs On Poles
Here is a photo I found on Instagram of a room in the Google Asia Pacific headquarters showing these unusual ball like chairs, attached to poles that go from the floor to the ceiling. This was posted
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Report: Alphabet Considers $1billion Investment in Lyft, WebmasterWorld
- Report: Facebook Tests Snooze Feature to Temporarily Mute Contacts, WebmasterWorld
- Woah! This needs a cleanup people! https://t.co/Tmmt0mEAd1, Pedro Dias on Twitter
- Google Search Mislabeling Some Pages as Not Mobile Friendly, WebmasterWorld
- New Ad Prefs In Safari Upsetting Industry, Cre8asite Forums
- Switching from http to https.what affects on Bing Serps?, WebmasterWorld
