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:
- No, Google Isn't Ranking M-Dot Domains Higher Than Responsive Sites
This is a funny one, I spotted John Mueller of Google having to tell a webmaster/SEO that Google is not giving a special ranking boost to m-dot mobile sites... - Google Now Serving More AMP Content In Mobile Search Results
The folks over at RankRanger show in their tracker tool that AMP, accelerated mobile pages, has shown a spike in how often they show up now, compared to a few days ago... - Now Live: Google Local Finder Website Mentions
It was very revealing when Google started testing website mentions in the local finder... - Google Checks For Spam Patterns Between Search Console Accounts?
Google's John Mueller responded to a question on Twitter asking if Google will penalize the other sites in your Google Search Console account if one of those sites got a penalty. John Mueller did not say no, he said it depends... - New: Bulk Cancel Inactive Google AdWords Account
You can now cancel in bulk your inactive Google AdWords accounts from your manager account. All you need to do is login, select them and click edit and then cancel. Sign in to your AdWords manager account... - Google Singapore Top Contributor Summit
Top Contributors are those unpaid, volunteers that answer questions in the Google support forums on behalf of paid Google employees. To reward them, Google gives them freebies and also hosts Top Cont
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Google Index Hacked again (in some way), WebmasterWorld
- PSA: If you migrate to https, make sure to update AdWords! Allowing it to redirect can cause loss of referrer data. #ppc #ppcchat #Analytics, Jenny Halasz on Twitter
- @jeffjgold That's normal. If you explicitly search for something, we'll try to show it to you, even if we've since indexed it elsewhere., John Mueller on Twitter
- @matthewdiehl @methode @maxxeight Google has a lot of practice dealing with negative SEO, I wouldn't worry about that part (& happy to check if you're worried)., John Mueller on Twitter
- New categories and more detailed data in the YouTube Analytics Subscriber report, YouTube Help
