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:
May 2017 Google Webmaster Report
It is that time of the month again, the monthly Google webmaster report where I summarize the more important Google webmaster/SEO related topics of the past 30 days or so. In short, the biggest items that you should be aware of include the Owl update…
Google: Stop Optimizing For RankBrain; It’s Irrelevant
So we know Google has told us before that you cannot optimize for RankBrain, that there is no RankBrain score. RankBrain is more of a query thing where Google tries to better understand the searcher’s intent with the query and brings back documents based on that…
Google Search Console Working On New AMP Features
Yesterday, Google’s John Mueller sent out an email to a number of Search Console beta testers asking if they are interested in trying out some new AMP…
Google Home Services Ads Now With 3 Card Design
Google seems to have pushed out a new design for the home services ads. Instead of the linear format, now Google is showing three cards horizontally across the top of the Google home page…
Google Mobile Search Gets Fresh & Viral AMP Carousel
Google seems to be testing or rolling out a new form of the AMP carousel in the mobile search results. This is similar to top news or recipes and the like, but this one is labeled “fresh and viral.” I was personally able to replicate it in one of my tests…
Googley Light Fixture
Here is a photo of several Googley colored polls coming out of the ceiling with lights at the end of them. It looks like a Google light fixture of sorts, a Googley light fixture. It was posted on Ins
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
21,000 image hits per day and almost no traffic, WebmasterWorld
Apple Q2 2017 Revenue $52.9 Billion, WebmasterWorld
Finally, an answer to this past week’s slightly difficult SearchResearch Chal…, Google+ – Dan Russell
Google Docs Phishing scheme rapidly spreading today, WebmasterWorld
Adsense Violations on Pages With No Adsense, WebmasterWorld
Top 5 reasons to use AdWords Express, The Google Advertiser Community
Why is there no Google Doodle For May the 4TH?!, Google Web Search Help
