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 Can See Disavow Links Between Canonical URLs
Google’s John Mueller said it is best to disavow all the possible places the link may be pointing to, even if you redirect one URL to another and someone is linking to the original URL. But he said Google can follow and see “links between canonical URLs, so when there’s a redirect involved, you’d need to check which one is canonical.”
Searchers Upset That Easter Got Google Treatment While Passover, Ramadan & Others Did Not
Google on Sunday had a pretty unique and new home page feature for Easter. It was the first time they did something like this in general but not the first time they had an Easter Google Doodle. There was no Doodle, but if you clicked on the I’m Feeling Lucky button, Easter eggs would drop and fill up the page.
Google Images, Featured Snippets & Videos More Often In Web Search Results
It looks like Google is showing more vertical search features in the core web search results – more often. Yesterday I covered at Search Engine Land that the image search box is showing up way more often in Google’s web results than previously. But also it looks like featured snippets and maybe even video boxes are showing up more often this past month.
Google Maps Business Reviews Vanishing After Suspension Removal
There are numerous reports of Google Maps listings, Google My Business listings that have had their suspension removed then seeing all of the reviews they had on their listings vanish. Joy Hawkins at the Local Search Forums wrote “listings that are suspended and then reinstated are missing all their reviews. This isn’t intended and Google is aware of the issue.”
Google Take Your Child To Work Day Fun
The other day at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California – the GooglePlex, Google hosted a Take Your Child To Work Day event. Here are some photos from that even that I found on Instagra
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
Do people put links in Tiktok videos? #seo #numberoneranking #follow #growthhacking…, John Mueller on Twitter
Chrome 74 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS, WebmasterWorld
Google Core Update March 2019 – How to recover from it?, WebmasterWorld
Should I devote time to Voice Search?, WebmasterWorld
You focus too much on links :)…, John Mueller on Twitter
Search Engine Land Stories:
Final call to enter the 2019 Search Engine Land Awards
New European Google local SERPs prompt users to ‘find results on’ other sites
Google confirms AJAX (i.e. XHR) calls consume crawl budget
Other Great Search Stories:
Analytics
12 Questions You Should Ask Google Analytics Every Month, PR 2020
My Billion Dollar Mistake, Product Habits
Industry & Business
Google Walkout Organizers Say They’re Facing Retaliation, Wired
More ways to find authoritative information in Europe, Google Blog
Links & Promotion Building
How to Audit Your Internal Links, Search Engine Journal
Why 404 Pages Are a Clever Content Opportunity, SuccessWorks
Local & Maps
Google Maps Adds More Hotel Search Filters, Skift
Mobile & Voice
How to use Google Voice, The Verge
Six ways your Google Assistant can help you spruce up for spring, Google Blog
How to Stop Google Assistant from Popping up Randomly, Guiding Tech
SEO
Google Webmaster Hangout Notes: April 16th 2019, DeepCrawl
Winter Is Coming: SEO During Economic Downturns, Search Engine Journal
Enriching Search Results Through Structured Data, Official Google Webmaster Central Blog
The inside story with Google’s external ranking factors, Search Metrics
PPC
Merkle Q1 2019 Digital Marketing Report Released, Merkle
The Top 3 Updates From Bing in 2019, PPC Hero
Search Features
How Powerful is Google’s Jobs Search Engine?, RankRanger
Other Search
Chrome 74 arrives with less motion sickness and new JavaScript features, VentureBeat
DuckDuckGo Organic Search Grew 54% – Only Google Competitor to Gain Search Share, Brandingin Asia
