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 May Message Webmasters With Mobile First Indexing Issues
So we know Google is testing that mobile first index and that the rollout will be done in batches and now John Mueller has explained how they think they might... - Google: No Limit On Hreflang Attributes; Consider Using Sitemaps
Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that technically there is no limit to the number of hreflang attributes you can use on the same URL. He said, if you are asking... - Bing Not Demoting Importance Of Links For Search Rankings
The other day, Laura Hampton posted on Twitter a link to an interview citing Bing saying that over time Bing will value links less in their search ranking... - New Google My Business Go-To Guides
Google's Marissa Nordahl from the Google My Business team announced in the Google My Business Help forums that they launched a new section called... - Clouds Hanging Inside The Google Office
Google likes to hang all sorts of clouds inside of their Google office and here is another version of clouds hanging in the office. These are pink colored clouds...
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- @pierrefar @davidiwanow Or perhaps use the noimageindex robots meta tag. That said, I don't see any downside to just leaving it. Worst case? Free traffic?, John Mueller on Twitter
- New: Community Updates in Google News, Google News Help
- @aminerank No, there's no need to make all links nofollow., John Mueller on Twitter
- From terminal ypu can using three commands, cat, egrep and sort you can have a idea of how Google crawl your site https://t.co/ovqrQSjrN3, Lino Uruñuela on Twitter
- Google Ends First Click Free Policy for Publishers, WebmasterWorld