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's Latest Search Quality Raters Handbook - October 2015 Edition
Jennifer Slegg got her hands on the latest version of the Search Quality Raters handbook and published an incredibly detailed summary of what is new in the guidelines. Of course, for legal reasons... - Google: Structured Data Not Currently Used For Featured Snippets
Earlier this month, we reported Google's John Mueller saying that schema helps with featured snippets. That using schema or structured markup can help Google understand your content and ultimately help you get in the featured snippets box... - Google's Gary Illyes Wants Google Now To Power E-Commerce Purchases
Gary Illyes of Google is at another conference this year, and last night he was on stage at the State of Search conference in Texas. So there is a lot of stuff he said... - Google Search Smarter At Superlatives, Times & Complicated Queries
Google announced on the Google Search blog yesterday that they are now even better at handling more complex queries in natural language within the Google Search App and search in general... - Google Search Console Search Analytics Data Stuck Again
This should come as no surprise, but the Google Search Console Search Analytics feature is now stuck again and the data stopped updating. We are now stuck at November 11th. Just last week... - Google's Matt Cutts Upset By Some Of Moz's Rand Fishkin SEO Advice
Rand Fishkin, founder of Moz, is much loved by many in the SEM space, and with that, disliked by some as well (trust me, I know)... - Google's Dinosaur, Stan With New Shades
We've covered Google's Dinosaur, named Stan, here many of times in the pictures section. But now Stan has new glasses, shades, just in time for the winter. Jeremy Milo from Google posted on Google+
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Capture more holiday traffic with click share for Google Shopping Shopping…, Google+ - Google Ads
- Jeweler Attacked by Hundreds of Fake 1 Star Reviews - Facebook Refuses to Act, localsearchforum.com
- Google on Course For Project Loon Launch, WebmasterWorld
- Possible reasons you have zombie traffic, WebmasterWorld
