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: No Need To Block Pieces Of Content From GoogleBot
It is common, you visit a web site, click through the web pages on that web site and you see that a large chunk of the page has the same content and elements as the rest of the pages on that site….
Google URL Inspection Tool Labels 410 HTTP Status Codes As 404
Did you know that the URL Inspection Tool within Google Search Console will label a 410 HTTP server status code as a 404 HTTP server code, not the 410 it truly is?
Google: POST Requests Use More Crawl Budget Than GET Requests
Martin Splitt from Google said one thing you need to be aware of when it comes to Google handling POST requests it that since Google doesn’t cache them, they can use more of your crawl budget…
Google Updates The Search Quality Raters Guidelines After 10 Months
The last time Google updated the search quality raters guidelines was in July 2018. On May 16, 2018 Google pushed out an updated version of the search quality raters guidelines used by humans hired as…
Google Testing New Beta Versions Of Chromium On GoogleBot
Google has been caught testing features that do not work in Chrome 74, but work in Chrome 75. Chrome 75 is not out yet in production for the public, it is being testing in beta right.
The Hit Machine Drummers At Google
Here is a photo and video of a bunch of drummers named The Hit Machine Drummers playing at Google Dublin for a Google Cloud event.
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
Google showing carousel above the maps #Google #SERP #googleserp @rustybrick @thebrightflow…, Bhumika Kateliya on Twitter
New bidding controls to help meet your goals, Google Ads Help
Getting hammered by Bingbot, WebmasterWorld
Italy Open Probe Into Google Abusing Market Dominance, WebmasterWorld
@searchliaison purchases doesn’t unescape correctly. Willing to pass on? https://t.co/qvzOv41BDl https://t.co/TMPcCFcJkf, Matt Cutts on Twitter
Search Engine Land Stories:
Google updates Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines
Conductor adds audience demographics and social media analytics to Searchlight platform
Google Ads unveils several fine-tuning controls for bidding strategies
How voice search changes everything
Other Great Search Stories:
Analytics
The end of digital marketing, Think with Google
Use Google Analytics To Improve Your Website, Business Journal Daily
Industry & Business
Google to Refund Advertisers After Suit Over Fraud Scheme, Wall Street Journal
Googlers fighting to keep Old Google amid ‘civil war’, 9to5Google
Krishna Bharat on the impact of AI on journalism and democracy, Medium
Links & Promotion Building
Link Distance Ranking Algorithms, Search Engine Journal
Local & Maps
Alphabet’s Wing will kick off Helsinki drone deliveries in summer 2019, VentureBeat
How to use Google Maps to help someone find you, The Verge
How Yelp uses customer data to help restaurants, FastCasual
Mobile & Voice
Meet the Singaporean behind Google Assistant’s personality and jokes, CNA
Sonos with Assistant is so close to replacing Google Home, 9to5Google
This week in tech history: Google Assistant is born, Engadget
SEO
How to make your awful technical SEO audit better, Dom Woodman
Google Updates Quality Rater Guidelines Targeting E-A-T, Page Quality & Interstitials, The SEM Post
PPC
Terminated AdSense Publishers Can’t Get Their Accrued Earnings-eOnline v. Google, Eric Goldman
2020 presidential election: Joe Biden surges past Trump on Facebook, Google ads, Axios
Other Search
Google Gmail tracks purchase history — how to delete it, CNBC
