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 Console To Potentially Annotate Reports To Show Indexing Bugs
Gary Illyes from Google said the Google Search Console team is "working hard on estimating the impact and potentially annotating the reports affected." That means Google may add annotations and short footnotes to document the indexing bugs specifically around those canonicalization issues and mobile-indexing issues. - Google Discover Traffic Bouncing Back For Some Publishers?
A few weeks ago, I reported about many publishers complaining their Google Discover traffic dropped off a cliff right around August 10th, right around the same time of the August 10th Google Search glitch. While I have seen some folks report recoveries shortly after I reported this, others noticed recoveries when Google began fixing the canonical and mobile-indexing bugs. - Google Indexing Bug Progress Report - It's Getting There
Just to keep you up-to-date on the status of Google's efforts to fix the indexing bugs. Google said last night that it has restored 25% of the URLs impacted by the canonical issue and about 50% of those impacted by the mobile-indexing issue. - Google My Business Preview Call History To See Recent Calls From Customers
It looks like Google is testing yet another, what would seem, powerful feature in Google My Business named Preview Call History. This feature seems to show you your recent calls made to you from Google Maps and Google Search via your Google local listing. - Bing Now Microsoft Bing With Curved Logo
After a couple of months of testing, Microsoft made it official and rebranded Bing to Microsoft Bing. Bing also has this new curved logo it is sporting, which it began testing in April of this year. - Google Keynote Goes Bananas With Smile From Gary
Working up these titles is not a trivial thing, I mean, really, give me some credit. So at Brighton SEO, John Mueller and Gary Illyes had a joint keynote talk with Izzi Smith doing the moderation. S
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- GMB Adding Irrelevant Services in Bulk, Local Search Forum
- According to our SERP Feature tracker, it seems Google has completely removed Explore Panels from the SERP. We verified our database and couldn't find a single Explore Panel appearing. https://t.co/jIxbinAHZq, Shay Harel on Twitter
- If they're both in English (ca the same content), that would be expected (rel=canonical or not). We'll index one, but still apply the hreflang when it comes to showing / linking from search. Super-confusing,, John Mueller on Twitter
- Cloudflare Launches Privacy-First Analytics Tool, WebmasterWorld
- We do lots of work in all types of languages. But I'll pass this on., Danny Sullivan on Twitter
Search Engine Land Stories:
- Bing rebrands as Microsoft Bing, expands Give with Bing
- Google My Business and reviews gain in 2020 Local Ranking Factors survey
Other Great Search Stories:
Analytics
- How to Create a Custom Report in Google Analytics, WordPress
- How to Create a Google Data Studio Dashboard, Towards Data Science
- How to use DATE_DIFF in Google Data Studio to work out Sessions per Day, Michael Howeely
Industry & Business
- Announcing Google Workspace, everything you need to get it done, in one location, Google Cloud Blog
- G Suite is now Google Workspace and ready for work's future, 9to5Google
- What Google's New 400,000 Sq Ft Toronto Office Will Look Like, Toronto Storeys
Links & Content Marketing
Local & Maps
- Ask a Techspert: How do satellite images work?, Google Blog
- Make your everyday smarter with Jacquard, Google Blog
Mobile & Voice
- Google Assistant adds Snapshot settings to control your feed, 9to5Google
- Google Assistant on Android plays all YouTube Music playlist, 9to5Google
SEO
- Online platforms progressively blend paid with organic results, Kevin Indig
- What Is Content Syndication and How Does It Work?, SEM Rush
- 'Domain Age Impacts Rankings' (and 8 Other SEO Myths), Practical Ecommerce
- 7 Actionable Ways to Gain Crawl Budget, Botify
- Testing Javascript Impact on your Page Speed, Inlinks
PPC
- 5 tips to fundraise for Giving Tuesday using Ad Grants, Google Blog
- How will this year's pandemic holiday look for the technology industry?, Microsoft Advertising
- Product Update: Improved Bid Adjustment Alerts, Auto-pause Settings, and Draft Ads Management, Adalysis
Other Search
- Microsoft Bing: the search engine that gives back, Bing Search Blog
