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 Pronounce Feature
A Reddit thread shared a screen shot from I believe Google India where they have a search result that helps searchers pronounce words. It reminds me of the Word Coach feature also only available in India that helps searchers learn new words. - Google How To Schema In The Search Results For Slack
It looks like Slack was able to leverage the new how to schema to get some of their API help documentation pages to show richer results in the Google search results. - Google Mobile First Indexing Notices Are Delayed Within Search Console
Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that there is a delay currently with the notices that go out after a site has switched over the Google Mobile First Indexing. John said "We're a bit behind with messaging of the mobile-first indexing because we're switching to a model that reduces the number of messages owners of many sites get (currently in test, should be catching up in the next weeks, assuming all goes well :))." - Google My Business Products Beta Gets Update Design
Kara from Google said in the Google My Business Help thread that they have done a user interface refresh of the relatively new Product Editor interface. This can be found on some Google My Business consoles under the Product beta link. - Macaulay Culkin Getting Ready For Home Alone Google Assistant Commercial
Here is a photo from, what I think is the prep room, where Macaulay Culkin was preparing for his Google Home commercial where the Google Assistant helps him with Home Alone. The video of the commerci
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Verizon to Replace Oath Brand to Verizon Media Group, WebmasterWorld
- AMP only vs mobile, desktop and AMP? : bigseo, Reddit
- Created a Google Data Studio report that I'm sharing that allows you to export Google Search Console keyword data by day/trended: https://t.co/P3QYAltzTN As the new Search Console doesn't have this ability, this is super import, Jonathan Jones on Twitter
- I don't know about phone numbers & where they'd be used in your instance, but generally we expect to have structured data be reflected in the visible part of the page as a form of confirmation. So if you're using SD for one val, John Mueller on Twitter
- I'd just keep it. Changing image URLs can take a long time to be processed, and you're not going to win anything in exchange.…, John Mueller on Twitter
- Microsoft Releases Important Fix for IE Zero Day Bug, WebmasterWorld
Search Engine Land Stories:
Other Great Search Stories:
Analytics
- How to Get a Google Analytics Certification (& Is It Really Worth It?), Search Engine Journal
- Introducing the Data Studio Community Visualizations Developer Preview, Google Blog
- The Women in Analytics Podcast Spotlight, Present Beyond Measure
Industry & Business
Links & Promotion Building
Local & Maps
Mobile & Voice
- Tasty: A Recipe for Success on the Google Home Hub, Google Partners Blog
- 27 tips for your new Google Home speaker, CNET
- Alexa user gets access to 1,700 audio files from a stranger, TechCrunch
- Android Pie à la mode: Security & Privacy, Google Online Security Blog
SEO
- Google is Scanning for (and Crawling) URLs in Your Private YouTube Videos, sudofox's journal
- 10 Tips For Building A Business Case As an In-House SEO, Conductor
- Which SEO Techniques Are Important To Do Frequently?, Ezoic Blog
- How To Find More Of Your Featured Snippets Using Google Search Console (GSC), Analytics Edge, And SEMrush Position Tracking, GSQI
- How to get the most out of PageRank and boost rankings, Distilled
- Rank Ranger’s SEO Case Studies - A Year in Review (2018), RankRanger
PPC
Other Search
- Is It Really Five Stars? How to Spot Fake Amazon Reviews, Wall Street Journal
