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 Getting Your Canonical URLs Wrong?
A webmaster posted in the Google webmaster help forums after noticing that one of his sites saw hundreds of pages wiped out of the Google index a week or so ago. He noticed that Google is associated one URL to a completely irrelevant canonical URL and suspects that is the issue. - Google Image Search Needs Image & Associated Landing Page Both Indexed
For your images to show up in Google Image Search, you don't just need to make sure your images are on the web somewhere, you need to make sure that the image itself is on a web page that can also be indexed. If either the image itself or the associated page the image is viewable on is not able to be crawled or indexed, then Google won't show it in image search. - Happy Holidays & Christmas Day Logos From Google, Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Sogou & More
The search engine industry is all decked out to celebrate the holidays and Christmas with their happy holiday and Christmas logo and themes. This year we have special logos and designs from Google, Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Sogou and our own site. - Google's John Mueller Helping Webmasters On Christmas Eve Again
John Mueller to me seems like a real genuine person and someone who is in a tough position every day trying to balance the line of defending the Google search results while helping some people who try to manipulate those same results. Each Christmas eve for over 12 years, John Mueller has been helping webmasters with their problems. - Google Tea Pot
Google may have given Google branded tea pots to some of their partners for the holidays. Here is a photo from Angora Media on Instagram of the gift they got from Google. It is a tea pot, I think.
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- I'd match the date in the sitemap file to the content that can be crawled & indexed, since it helps us to discover new & updated pages.… https://t.co/o77HjHxCp1, John Mueller on Twitter
- One is based on any/random URLs we happened to crawl, the other is based on URLs we actually wanted to show (index) in the search results.… https://t.co/hwx8VBs4wN, John Mueller on Twitter
- warning from robot file, Google Webmaster Help
- 11,000 Pages With Failed: Crawl anomaly - Test Live Site Fine - No Server Log Errors, Google Webmaster Help
- Ranking first boost and Then suddenly drop, WebmasterWorld
- Sounds like it might have moved over recently :)…, John Mueller on Twitter
- That doesn't sound very trustworthy.…, John Mueller on Twitter
Search Engine Land Stories:
- Year in Review: Top 10 SEO expert columns of 2018
- PPC 2018: These changes will have the biggest impact on advertisers in 2019
- Ask an SMXpert: Link prospecting and helpful tools to manage outreach
Other Great Search Stories:
Analytics
- Fine-tune Google Analytics for a More Profitable 2019, Practical Ecommerce
Industry & Business
- How Google took on China—and lost, MIT Technology Review
- 2018, celebrating our global Webmaster community, Official Google Webmaster Central Blog
- Google slammed in federal complaint for ‘disturbing’ children’s games, MarketWatch
- The Verge 2018 tech report card: Google, The Verge
Links & Promotion Building
- Pushed Even Further: US Newsrooms View Mobile Alerts as a Standalone Platform, Columbia Journalism Review
Local & Maps
Mobile & Voice
SEO
- Top 25 Local Search Ranking Signals You Need to Know, Search Engine Journal
PPC
Other Search
