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:
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Mobile-First Indexing Rollout, Recipe Update, AdWords Editor & Matt Cutts Stories
This month, we posted our monthly Google Webmaster Report, so catch up there. Google began the second batch of mobile-first indexing, and sent out notices to those sites as well. The thing is, Google is moving over many sites that are desktop only…
Google Featured Snippets Asks Searchers “Is This Helpful”
We’ve seen Google asking searchers to rate the search results before and even ask them if the longer search results are useful or not. Here is an another example of Google asking searchers to rate if the featured snippets are helpful or not…
Google Recipe Structured Data Updated For Google Assistant & Search
Google announced, as I covered at Search Engine Land, new recommendations for recipe structured data properties. Now, if you want to be included in Google Assistant or Google Home, you need to use the recipeIngredient and recipeInstructions properties…
Google Maps Highlight Icons Legend
Brad Brewer posted on Twitter a collection of all the Google Maps Highlight Icons he has spotted to date…
Google My Business Adds Clear Button For Attributes
Allyson Wright from Google announced in the Google My Business Help forums a small but useful feature for those heavily working in Google My Business. There is a new “clear” button in the attributes section to allow you to more efficiently manage the business attributes you are working…
Matt Siltala – 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…
The YouTube Google Emmy
So this is an old one but the photo we had from 2014 was a bit cropped. Here is a new one I found on Instagram of the Google/YouTube Emmy on display in the Dublin office. I believe it was for techno
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
May 2018 AdSense Earnings & Observations, WebmasterWorld
Twitter asks 330m users to change passwords after finds security bug, WebmasterWorld
GDPR and Log Data Storage, WebmasterWorld
Google is testing highlights icons in hotels’ local listings – https://t.co/xZxOoXHs28 cc:@rustybrick @mblumenthal, Sergey Alakov on Twitter
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Introducing the Microsoft Audience Network. A smarter way to target your ideal customer. Learn more about the announcement today: https://t.co/ulorQyeJDf… https://t.co/ggey4Mc3xA, Bing Ads on Twitter
