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:
- Moving To HTTPS, Transfer Parameter Handling In Google Search Console
Just a heads up, if you are migrating your site from HTTP to HTTPS and you have parameter handling set up in Google Search Console, make sure that when you do migrate to HTTPS... - Google New Design & Features For Google Flight Search
Google announced on Twitter they are previewing a new design and feature set for the Google Flights search. You can access Google Flight Search at google.com/flights and from there... - New Google Content Labels In The Search Results Snippets
Earlier this month, we showed how Google was testing a new look for the PDF label in the search results. Well, it seems to be rolling out for more content or file types. Will O'Hara posted on Twitter a screen shot of Google showing content labels for both PDFs and PPT... - Google Updates Blocked Search Results Snippet: No Information Is Available For This Page
Google has updated the text they use to communicate to a searcher when the search result snippet has no information. It use to say "A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt รข" learn more." Now it reads "No information is available for this page... - Google AdWords Editor Version 12.2 Adds More Features
Google AdWords quietly released an update to the AdWords Editor, they are now at version 12.2 which brings Gmail asset-based ads, full support for promotion and video extensions... - A Custom Google Kimono Judo Shirt
I am surprised we have not seen one yet, a custom Google branded Judo Kimono shirt. I actually am not sure the proper name for this but this is what you wear during various martial arts and I guess G
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- @Khushal It seems normal to me that news queries & pages shown change pretty quickly - that's kinda the nature of news..., John Mueller on Twitter
- Disavow file uploaded, traffic down 20% immediately, WebmasterWorld
- SEMRush posing as Googlebot?, WebmasterWorld
- When position 0 becomes position 6. This is what happened when the new immersive mobile SERPs hit the scene last week. On dtop, Amazon has t… https://t.co/dUYUsZuNxo, Glenn Gabe on Twitter
- @dawnieando Added next week's batch :). Looking forward to your questions!, John Mueller on Twitter
- @DgreatSolutions @googlewmc @methode We don't crawl all pages, even when we otherwise could. There's a lot out there on the web :), John Mueller on Twitter
- @schachin @methode @Google The cached page should just be the HTML page, if the iframe is on there, the browser can show it. x-frame-options is a way to prevent that o… https://t.co/Z3QTzd1QDa, John Mueller on Twitter
- How Do You Promote New Brands, Product Names, And New Words, Cre8asite Forums
