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:
- Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Event Penalty, Speed & SEO, Audiobooks & New Google Finance
This week in search, I covered a Google warning about using incorrect event markup on your pages... - Matt Cutts Dislikes How Google Links To Search Results
Matt Cutts, former Google executive and star amongst the SEO community, posted on Google+ how he is not happy with how Google is linking to the "10 blue links," the core Google search results. Matt showed how Google is not directly linking from the core search results to the site... - Matt Cutts Wanted Google To Treat URL Underscores As Separators
Last night, former Google executive said on Twitter that he tried to get the Google engineers to treat underscores in the URLs as separators, just like how they used hyphens as separators in the URLs. He said it never happened... - Google Assistant Helps You Find Local Service Providers: Electrician, Plumber, Cleaner, etc.
Google Assistant can now give you local results for service providers like electricians, plumbers, house cleaners and other local services you might need in your home or business. Google said this is rolling out to the Google Assistant, Google Home... - Google Shows Personal Search Filter Tab To Some Users
Eoghan O'Sullivan posted on Twitter that he is seeing the "personal" tab back in the Google search results, at least in his mobile Google search app... - Jim Hedger - The Search Community Honors You
This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series - feel free to nominate someone over here. Jim Hedger, 49 years old, has worked as a SEO for about 20 years now. Jim to me symbolizes kindness, he is simply a kind and generous man... - Google Paris Earthy Lobby
Huseyin Savas from Google posted a picture of an area at the Google Paris office. Check out how earthy that office looks. You can the Google logo mounted in the setting of a garden with the Os using
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- @AndyChubb85 While Google's CEO is a vegetarian, Googlebot doesn't mind the occasional hamburger menu & can crawl through it just fine., John Mueller on Twitter
- Alphabet Considers Rolling Nest Back into Google, WebmasterWorld
- Microsoft Makes Edge Available for iOS and Android, WebmasterWorld
- Sometimes bad content escapes detection because it's only visible from certai..., Google+ - Google Webmasters
- Emoji Domain Names, WebmasterWorld
- For years, @mattcutts was patient & wise as the most visible public ombudsman for Google. But what happened to the web (and to culture) when… https://t.co/29SDXHHFMj, Anil Dash on Twitter
- Twitter Lite Rolls Out to Over 20-Countries, WebmasterWorld