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:
- Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, Sitelinks Searchbox Bug, Apple Drops Bing & Happy Birthday Google
This week in search I cover the pretty big ongoing Google algorithm and ranking shifts, you want to check this out. Google said they do look for spam patterns between Search Console accounts. Google bug dropped the Sitelinks search box... - Google On Algorithm & Ranking Updates This Week: We're Always Improving Our Search Results
Starting around Tuesday of this week, we noticed Google algorithm and ranking shifts throughout the SEO industry and search results. There were significant chatter and the algorithm watching tools all, all of them, were responding heavily to the changes... - Google Does Not Support TravelAction Schema, Yet
The TravelAction schema is designed markup for to markup your HTML to show the "act of traveling from an fromLocation to a destination by a specified mode of transport, optionally with participants." But this is not yet supported in search... - Google Call Only Ads Now Support Ad Extensions
While I was offline last week, Google AdWords announced that call-only ads now support new ad extensions... - Google: Competition Different Across Different Country Domains
Google's John Mueller in a webmaster hangout earlier this month said at the 8:30 mark into the video that just because you rank well in one Google regions, it does not mean you will rank well in another... - Why Does Google USA Returns Snippet For Warsaw Children's Dance School?
If you go to Google and search for [google usa] the first result that comes up has a title of "szkoÅ'a taÅ"ca dla dzieci Warszawa - Google." That translates to "Warsaw Children's Dance School - Google." The URL does go to Google.com but a variation of it... - Google Balloon Art Hanging Structures
Here is a photo I found on Instagram from one of the Google offices, where you can see in the lobby they have these artistic human grayscale statues floating in the air, holding on to colorful balloon
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- @MattTutt1 I'd try to avoid meta refresh "redirects" and try to use a server-side redirect, if possible., John Mueller on Twitter
- @kirwanseo @methode @googlewmc no, unless it's zero., John Muller on Twitter
- Amazon Reports Google Pulls YouTube from Echo Show, WebmasterWorld
- Google AdSense Now Supports Bengali (Bangla), WebmasterWorld
- Microsoft Becomes a Premium Sponsor of Open Source Initiative, WebmasterWorld
