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 Console Performance Report Now Consolidated To Canonical
In February, Google announced that they would be consolidating the data in the performance report to the canonical. Meaning the AMP, mobile, etc will all be counted towards the main URL’s data in the performance report. This was live in two different views but now the old view is gone.
Google Discover Is The -1 Screen Or Position -1
We have positions one through ten in Google, the main search results. We have position zero, the featured snippets. Heck, we even have zero results where Google just shows the answer. Now we have position minus one or screen -1 as Google’s Malte Ubl called it on Twitter yesterday.
New Google Search Console Discover Report
One thing SEOs were asking Google for for some time now is a report in Google Search Console that tells you about your traffic from Google Discover. Now we have such a report and it is pretty cool to see this new data.
Google: We Fully Fixed The Google De-Indexing Bug
As you know, we were the first to report the large de-indexing bug where Google was dropping pages out of their index starting as early as a week ago today. Well, last night, after about 6 days of the issue, Google said it has now been fully resolved.
Google SEO Tips On Vue.js
Martin Splitt from Google posted yet another wonderful technical SEO video on making Vue.js, web apps built in Vue, search engine friendly. It goes through making the titles, descriptions and URLs more discoverable by Googlebot when built in Vue.
Joke Google Documentary On How Google Fights Spam
Gary Illyes from Google is having way too much fun. He posted a short video on Twitter, which is rare these days, of a “short documentary” about how Google fights spam. It then shows a Googler punchi
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
A great way to know if you’ve been impacted by the Google deindexing bug is by checking rank tracking (if you have that set up). You might see a clear drop in rankings and visibility right when the bug rolled out, and possibly unti, Glenn Gabe on Twitter
Google + For Enterprise Users Becomes Google Currents, WebmasterWorld
Google No Longer Indexes all The Web, WebmasterWorld
Hiding the URL won’t change the canonicals, so what will happen is that the content won’t be visible at all.…, John Mueller on Twitter
Search Engine Land Stories:
4% of the Google index hit by de-indexing bug, Moz data shows
Google says de-indexing issue is fixed
Google Search Console adds Discover report
A case study for delivering performance in a mature Google Ads account
Other Great Search Stories:
Analytics
Create your first report in Google Data Studio, Yoast
From data ingestion to insight prediction: Google Cloud smart analytics accelerates your business transformation, Google
How to get international insights from Google Analytics, Search Engine Watch
Three Tools to Monitor and Analyze User Engagement, Internet Marketing Ninjas
Industry & Business
Google’s New Cloud Chief on Putting Enterprise Sales First, Fortune
Links & Promotion Building
Trust Flow and Citation Flow – the lowdown on how you can use them, Majestic Blog
Content Strategy: How to Find Your Target Audience, Builtvisible
Local & Maps
Google Maps Ads Could Bring More Profits to Alphabet, Bloomberg
Mobile & Voice
Google Assistant now works with your G Suite work calendar, GeekWire
Is Anyone Listening to You on Alexa? A Global Team Reviews Audio, Bloomberg
Future Android ‘system updates’ could be initiated from the Google Play Store [APK Insight], 9to5Google
Google DLP Makes It Easier to Safeguard Sensitive Data Troves, Wired
SEO
How is Google evaluating web content for rankings?, Search Metrics
How Bad Was Google’s Deindexing Bug?, Moz
PPC
The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Right YouTube Ad Format, Metric Theory
PPC Promotions: A How To Guide, Periscopix
Setting Up Search Engine Marketing Campaigns on a Large Scale, SEM Rush
Search Features
Top Cat and Dog Searches, According to Google Trends, Google Blog
Other Search
What’s left of Google+ is now called Currents, TechCrunch
