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 Search Ranking Update Continue : December 10th Update
Remember the unconfirmed Google update from November 19th? Well, there is speculation that there are still fluctuations around that update that are continuing to roll out. - Google: No Technical Advantage To Splitting Up Sitemaps But Useful For Debugging
John Mueller of Google answered a question on why you may want to split up your XML Sitemap files in a - VoiceXML (VXML) Markup Not Coming To Google Soon
Joe Youngblood asked Google on Twitter if Google would "honor VoiceXML in the near future to help match voice searches with website content." Google's John Mueller responded on Twitter basically saying no... - Google Rich Snippets For Articles Now Requires Author Name? Is It New?
Cyrus Shepard posted on Twitter that Google recently changed the developer docs for rich snippet markup to add that it is required to put in the author name in your markup. Truth is, every cached version I look at shows required as of December 12th... - Googlers Get Nexus 5X For Holiday Gift
A thread at reddit reports that Googlers, Google employees, are getting Nexus 5X devices for their year end holiday gifts this year... - Google Maps Inception
Adam Nathaniel Furman posted a picture of a screen shot of Google Maps Earth view which had a building that looked like it was lopsided. He said it looks like a "Google Earth algorithmic glitch." Ma
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- GMB Locations: Helpful Workflow Update, localsearchforum.com
- Wordpress 4.4 Update a Steaming Pile of Bugs, WebmasterWorld
- @iqseo sure it can @JohnMu, Gary Illyes on Twitter
- Congratulations to Our New Top Contributor and Ris..., The Google Advertiser Community
- Detached Listings and Schema Markup, localsearchforum.com
- Getting Rid of Slanderous Google Review, localsearchforum.com
- Last Week in the AdWords Community (Dec. 7-14), The Google Advertiser Community
