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:
- Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: December 18, 2015
This week in search we noticed a couple Google ranking updates, which are unconfirmed. One of those updates those updates was on December 10th and the other was on December 16th. Google said they will now index HTTPS URLs by default... - Google Indexing HTTPS By Default
Forget mobile first, now it's HTTPS first. Google announced last night that they will be indexing HTTPS by default from now on. That means GoogleBot will start crawling HTTPS equivalents of HTTP pages... - Video: Google Hangout On Google Mobile, AMP & App-Indexing
There was an excellent Google+ hangout with Google's John Mueller on the topics of mobile... - Google Working On Fix For OK Google With 'Personal Results' Or 'Trusted Voice' On
In September we reported issues with OK Google working with trusted voice setting on. Google has updated a thread this week at the Google Web Search Help forums around that topic... - Google Updates Rich Snippets For Articles Documentation For AMP
We know Google recently updated their documentation for the rich snippets for articles page by requiring author name but that wasn't it. Kyle Sutton posted on Google+... - Google Hosts The Santa Clara University Men's Basketball Team
For the second time, Google has hosted the Santa Clara University Men's Basketball team at their campus. Specifically Mark Louie, who works at Google, did a lot of the work. He does it to give back
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Punished by Google for updating links in old posts, WebmasterWorld
- Community Member of the Week - Archit (12/17), The Google Advertiser Community
- Google Takes Steps Over Digital Certificate Security, WebmasterWorld
