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 Update Brewing? Some Early Chatter & Signals.
Over the past few days, I’ve been seeing webmasters complain and cautiously rejoice about shifts in their traffic from Google and some of the search results fluctuations…
Google Again Says Penguin Will Be Rolling Out But Won’t Say When
Yesterday morning, in a Google Hangout on Google+, John Mueller again addressed a question about if/when will Google roll out Penguin 4.0. As you know…
Google: Any 3xx Redirect Does Not Lose PageRank At All
Google’s Gary Illyes said on Twitter yesterday that any type of 3xx redirect, a 301, 302, or any type, of 3xx redirect…
Google AdWords Expanded Text Ads & Device Bid Adjustments Rolling Out
Google announced on the AdWords blog that they are now rolling out expanded text ads, something they began testing in April. They are also rolling out device bid adjustments…
Google Drops Donald Trump Out Of Presidential Candidates Search Box
If you search in Google for [presidential candidates] you will not find Donald Trump listed. Instead you will find Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders…
Google: We Won’t Penalize For Emojis Or Symbols In Your Snippets
Yesterday, we reported how we saw emojis back in the Google results and as a coincidence, someone asked John Mueller in the Google Hangout on Google+ yesterday if Google will penalize sites that do that. John Mueller said no, they will not…
NBA Players Visit The GooglePlex
Google shared a photo on Google+ of four NBA players visiting the Google headquarters, the GooglePlex, last week. This visit was about ideas around “career development” and I guess diversity at the wo
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
"Explore" feature in new Google maps makes some interesting recommendations, localsearchforum.com
Did you know that spending on native ads is expected to grow to $21 billion in…, Google+ – AdSense
The Local Search Forum Turns 4 – Please join me in thanking our team, localsearchforum.com
Try out a new component (in beta for now) for live-updating #AMP pages https://t.co/gJ4Wht0shb, AMP Project on Twitter
