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: How To Reverse A Site Move & Go Back To Original URLs
Site moves in the SEO world are always scary, moving from one domain to another or one URL structure to another can be nerve racking. But imagine you go through with…

When Google Assistant First Party Responses Fail, It May Failover To Third-Party App

As I reported yesterday at Search Engine Land, Google Assistant may use a third-party Google Assistant app when their primary first party responses do not return a result…

Google: Mobile-First Indexing Switch Is Based On Technical Set Up, Not Search Query Volume

As you may know, Google began rolling out the mobile first indexing process a few weeks ago, although…

Google My Business Insights Mysteriously Disappears On Friday The 13th

If you login to your Google My Business account, click on one of your business listings and then go to the insights section…

Todd Mintz – The Search Community Honors You

This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series – feel free to nominate someone over here.

Todd Mintz lives with him family consisting of his spouse and two children in Beaverton, Oregon…

Google Maps Art That Changes Colors When Spun
A Googler from the Mountain View office in California posted that there is art hanging on his floor that dynamically changes color when you turn any of the circles. Mia Marino posted this on Instagra

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

Big reduction: indexed pages, structured data items, pages crawled, WebmasterWorld
Farewell to inbound.org and hello to Growth Hub (growth.org), inbound.org
Facebook Goes for World-Wide ToS Changes, WebmasterWorld
Facebook To Ask For Facial Recognition Consent for E.U. and Canada, WebmasterWorld
Learn more about amp-consent, a new tool for building user controls in AMP: https://t.co/6zqC30lykK, AMP Project on Twitter
Smart & helpful. Google has started telling drivers to turn at landmarks -> Google Maps to drivers: Turn right at the Burger King. "Highlighting landmarks seems to be one method of Google’s experimentation with improving navigat, Glenn Gabe on Twitter
That’s normal, there’s no meta tag to rank automatically in all countries, not all sites are as relevant in all countries. Keep working on making it even better!… https://t.co/eaV58KXQu2, John Mueller on Twitter