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:
- Mid-November Google Algorithm Search Ranking Update
Yesterday I saw signs of a spike in webmaster and SEO chatter about ranking changes in Google. That chatter has built up over the past 24 hours and the monitoring tools, most of them... - Google Job Search Adds Salary Ranges, Location Filters, Saving Jobs & More
Google this morning announced some improvements for job search including the ability to see estimated salary ranges, a better location filter... - Google On Disavow File: Good For Existing Or Preempting Manual Actions & If You Don't Trust Algorithms
Yesterday, Google's John Mueller answered a question around Google's Gary Illyes saying you don't need to disavow for algorithms. John basically confirmed what Gary said... - Google News Adds New Referral Source: news.url.google.com
Elena from Google posted in the Google News Help forums that they have made an adjustment to their system and thus to properly track all your Google News referral sources you must add news.url.google.com to the list. So referrals from Google News will come from... - Google Search Console AMP Report For Content Mismatch Errors Bug Fixed
Google posted on the Search Console data anomalies page that they fixed a bug with the content mismatch errors report within the AMP, accelerated mobile pages, section... - The Old Urchin Light Up Neon Sign At Google
Those of you from the older days of the industry remember Urchin, the web analytics package that Google ultimately acquired and made Google Analytics. Well, here is an old Urchin light up neon sign a
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- The holidays are fast approaching! Make sure customers know about your special hours by setting them in your Google My Business dashboard:… https://t.co/mv3oQ9DaLg, Google My Business on Twitter
- EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and Analytics cookies, WebmasterWorld
- That sounds like you're already doing too much there :-). We use a variety of factors for crawling, indexing, ranking; just looking at the #… https://t.co/4l2c3Kk8ZQ, John Mueller on Twitter
