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 Algorithm Update, AMP Images, Schema Reviews & SEO
This week, besides for me feeling pretty lousy, was busy. We had a potential Google update yesterday. Google pushed AMP results into the image search results. Google... - December 15th Google Search Algorithm Update Signals
Looks like on Thursday, December 15th there was a Google search algorithm shift. We have some chatter on social media and in the WebmasterWorld forums... - Google Reviews Markup Guidelines Now Disallows Profanity & Vulgar Language
Google's review markup guidelines now prohibit including profanity and/or vulgar language in your reviews... - Google: Moving Header Tags Around Won't Change Search Rankings
John Mueller of Google said this morning in a hangout on YouTube at the 5:40 mark into the video that moving your header tags, i.e. - Google My Business Insights For Google Maps Photos
Google My Business is now showing a new metric in the insights section of your Google My Business listings for your photos. Google will show you how many views your photos are getting compared to other businesses like yours... - Google Maps Promoted Places Gives Branded Pins & More To Brands
Google announced Promoted Places in Google Maps... - Bing Holiday Sweater & Scarf
I am seeing many folks in the SEM industry posting pictures of themselves and their team wearing new sweaters and scarfs from Microsoft Bing. I guess this is the gift they sent their Bing Ads partners
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Good Old Fashion Checklist SEO for 2017, WebmasterWorld
- Yahoo New Hack: 1 Billion Accounts Including Names, Emails, Telephone and Birth Dates, WebmasterWorld
- A wonderful look inside Google's Brain team., Google+ - Glen Shires
