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 Suggests Not To Make Country Specific Pages With Hreflang Just For Currency Changes
Let's say you have an e-commerce site that sells to multiple countries and all the pages are written in English but you sell the product in different currencies based on the country the user is buying from... - Google Launches Book A Room For Hotel Search Results
Google seems to have rolled out a feature they have been testing for booking a hotel room directly from the Google hotel search results... - Soft 404s For Google Hack Labels Don't Remove Warning
As many of you know, for years, Google would label hacked content in their search results with the this site may be hacked label. The solution is to patch up the hack and remove the hacked pages if they should not exist... - Google Measures Server Response Time In Milliseconds, Is 200 Milliseconds The Benchmark?
We've talked about page speed here a lot, but page speed and server response time are really two different things. According to Google's documentation for their PageSpeed insights tool... - New Google AdWords Showcase Shopping Ads & More
Yesterday Google announced some new features at the SMX show, the big one is shopping showcase ads... - Scary & Creepy Google Cake
Halloween is just around the corner and I spotted this random Google cake on Instagram which looks like it was designed for the scary day. It is a creepy looking Google cake with the Googlely colors.
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- @DelaneyPaul That works - or just 404 them in the meantime, showing a custom error page for users., John Mueller on Twitter
- @Suzzicks @Kevin_Indig @goutaste Yes, the composition of the search results page can be pretty dynamic (images. local, etc), perhaps that's what the "trackers" see?, John Mueller on Twitter
- An interstitial update on SRS: Why this cycle is longer than usual... (TL;DR..., Google+ - Dan Russell
- Facebook moving non-promoted posts out of news feed in trial, WebmasterWorld
- Google Says 64pct of Chrome Traffic on Android is Now Protected, WebmasterWorld
- @dawnieando @JudithLewis @willohara @ramesh_s_bisht Yes! Also, don't blindly take the other extreme. We sometimes see mobile pages with ~no textual content; makes ranking really, really hard., John Mueller on Twitter
- Good bye, with hugs and kisses, Google Webmaster Help
- How to Educate Clients on What Matters Most In Local Marketing, Local Search Forum
- Join me at this Hackathon on Air - "Getting Started with AMP" - with the amazing Dennis Raspotnig and @domheyberg! https://t.co/80oHGaXimQ, Ben Morss on Twitter
- NEW - Find Top Ranking KeyWords for Any Site from Moz, Local Search Forum
- Voice input in Local Search, WebmasterWorld
