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 Drops The Knowledge Graph Snippet Overlay
It looks like the feature where you can see a miniature knowledge graph overall for individual snippets is gone from Google... - November 2016 Google Webmaster Report
Here is the monthly Google webmaster report, if you missed last month, you will want to catch up there. In short, this month was more about Penguin 4.0... - Yandex Palekh Algorithm Catches The Long Tail With Machine Learning
Yesterday, Yandex announced that they launched something similar to the Google RankBrain - well, they didn't say that, I am. They launched what they call Palekh which is name of a Russian city, the flag of that city is of a firebird, which you can see in the image above... - Webmasters React To Google's 200 Rankings Factors Claim While Googlers Look On
For the past several days, I've been watching this thread at WebmasterWorld with a great title named "Still Believe in 200 Rank Factors & Santa Claus... - Google: Crawl Requests Doesn't Hurt Rankings; Faster Crawl Doesn't Improve Rankings
Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that requesting Google to crawl your pages doesn't negatively impact your rankings and if Google crawls your pages more often... - Google Fixes Search Console Bug With Robots.txt Tester Tool
Yesterday, I received numerous reports that the robots.txt tester tool in the Google Search Console was broken. Google indeed confirmed it and said they are working on a fix. Well, Google indeed fixed it... - Google Space Rocket Capsule?
I am not sure exactly what this is, it seems fake and photoshopped but it was posted on Instagram by weareforeal, which does this type of art. It looks like a space rocket in the form of a capsule wi
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Is the Google Traffic Trend Down for Most Websites?, WebmasterWorld
- @rustybrick @jenstar Either of you see this format or is it just me? https://t.co/wwKWxpErcB, Joy Hawkins on Twitter
- New CTA test in expanded KPs. cc:@mblumenthal @rustybrick https://t.co/u8WhaHJKb7, Sergey Alakov on Twitter
