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:
- 2017 Halloween Logos From The Search Industry
Yesterday we shared a preview of the Google Halloween logo which is both an animated Doodle and a video Doodle at the same time. But now that it is Halloween, I wanted to share the logos from the search industry, not just Google, but also Bing, Dogpile, Baidu, Sogou... - Google Employee Clicks On AdWords Ads Do Not Cost
Did you know that if a Google employee, Googler, clicks on your AdWords or any Google ads, while in the Google network, Google doesn't count those clicks... - Google: Your Multilingual Pages Shouldn't Be Word For Word Translation
Some folks might think that Google requires that when you use hreflang and make a multilingual web site, that each page that is translated from one language to another must be done word-for-word. That is absolutely not the case... - Majestic Stops Scraping Google, Google Is Happy
Not all SEO tools are black hat scrapers anymore... - Google: Use Fetch & Submit To Increase Indexing Speed
Over two years ago, I reported how you can use fetch and render with the submit to index feature to expedite indexing of that specific page... - Google Branded Force Water Bottles
I suspect Force is a popular and trendy brand for water bottles, which is why I see a picture of them with the Google logo on them. I guess Google ordered branded Google water bottles from a company n
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- @WolfOfSEO @BLevreau @dr_pete @methode @rustybrick @BritneyMuller @dannysullivan @randfish @JohnMu Aha! More details are on https://t.co/wM5N9RzzFT Making pages hard/slow to render is generally a bad idea, but this doesn't, Google Webmasters on Twitter
- "Ok Google, Play SEO Trivia" now live! thank you @JohnMu (you are featured in the questions) so is @randfish ...lots of G algo ?'s ü§ñ https://t.co/5iiUkN4myT, Patrick Coombe on Twitter
- Google is not showing related queries for 'coffee near me' or 'coffee shops' in the Google KW Planner. @rustybrick https://t.co/oPEGKIuAC2, Gail Menasco on Twitter
- News to me but Page-Level Ads are now under Auto Ads section, WebmasterWorld
