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:
2017 Halloween Logos From The Search Industry
Yesterday we shared a preview of the Google Halloween logo which is both an animated Doodle and a video Doodle at the same time. But now that it is Halloween, I wanted to share the logos from the search industry, not just Google, but also Bing, Dogpile, Baidu, Sogou…
Google Employee Clicks On AdWords Ads Do Not Cost
Did you know that if a Google employee, Googler, clicks on your AdWords or any Google ads, while in the Google network, Google doesn’t count those clicks…
Google: Your Multilingual Pages Shouldn’t Be Word For Word Translation
Some folks might think that Google requires that when you use hreflang and make a multilingual web site, that each page that is translated from one language to another must be done word-for-word. That is absolutely not the case…
Majestic Stops Scraping Google, Google Is Happy
Not all SEO tools are black hat scrapers anymore…
Google: Use Fetch & Submit To Increase Indexing Speed
Over two years ago, I reported how you can use fetch and render with the submit to index feature to expedite indexing of that specific page…
Google Branded Force Water Bottles
I suspect Force is a popular and trendy brand for water bottles, which is why I see a picture of them with the Google logo on them. I guess Google ordered branded Google water bottles from a company n
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
@WolfOfSEO @BLevreau @dr_pete @methode @rustybrick @BritneyMuller @dannysullivan @randfish @JohnMu Aha! More details are on https://t.co/wM5N9RzzFT Making pages hard/slow to render is generally a bad idea, but this doesn’t, Google Webmasters on Twitter
"Ok Google, Play SEO Trivia" now live! thank you @JohnMu (you are featured in the questions) so is @randfish …lots of G algo ?’s ü§ñ https://t.co/5iiUkN4myT, Patrick Coombe on Twitter
Google is not showing related queries for ‘coffee near me’ or ‘coffee shops’ in the Google KW Planner. @rustybrick https://t.co/oPEGKIuAC2, Gail Menasco on Twitter
News to me but Page-Level Ads are now under Auto Ads section, WebmasterWorld
