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:
July 2018 Google Webmaster Report
This month was somewhat typical but we did have a lot of updates to the Google Search Console. We saw the Search Analytics API get 16 months of data…
New Google Index Report Doesn’t Show Blocked URLs From Sitemaps
Alan Bleiweiss shared a scree shot of how the Google Sitemaps report in Google Search Console shows over 11…
Google 10 Years Later: Absolute Vs Relative URLs Doesn’t Matter For SEO
I know, I know, this is a basic SEO question – the absolute URLs versus relative URLs. But we covered it literally 10 years ago and back then Google’s John Mueller answered the question and also answered it today…
Google Cannot Process Verbatim & Custom Date Range Searches
Go ahead and try to search using Google’s verbatim filter with a custom date range – you’d be out of luck. If you try to use both, Google will remove the other filter…
Google My Business Insights Adds Queries & Keyword Report
The Google My Business Insights, analytics, section has added a new section for showing you keyword or query data that has led to searchers finding you on Google Maps or…
July 4th Fireworks Display From The GooglePlex
I found some photos from folks at the GooglePlex, Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, of a fireworks display the other day. In fact, I posted a video. I suspect this fireworks show wa
Fourth of July Google & Bing Home Page For 2018
Happy Fourth of July everyone! As normal, I won’t be posting stories here on independence day mostly because most of the readers here are off and don’t want….
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
“Uncommon download” is not malware. This goes away once the content is known by our systems. You can also trigger a review yourself through the UI. We don’t have example URLs in these cases, unfortunately.… https:, John Mueller on Twitter
Notice of mobile-first indexing enabled, WebmasterWorld
Court Rules Yelp Can’t be Ordered to Remove Negative Reviews, WebmasterWorld
My first day at the Google Search Conference #googlesc and @SyedMalikMairaj is currently talking about Structured Data for Hindi publishers!… https://t.co/zymkJYFwms, Gary Illyes on Twitter
Search Engine Land Stories:
How to drive conversions with on-brand SEO copywriting
Predicting the value of a search engine ranking signal
SMX Advanced session recap: Mobile-first and AMP
Google My Business Insights adds queries used to find your business
Other Great Search Stories:
Industry & Business
Authoritas Acquires Linkdex, Authoritas
Google: Melbourne office doors opened, but Sydney to remain HQ, SMH
Russian search engine alerts Google to possible data problem, ABC News
Links & Promotion Building
5 Common Misconceptions in Digital PR and Link Building, Hallam
How to Identify and Remove Bad Backlinks That Kill Your Rankings, cognitiveseo.com
5 Design Ideas That Will Transform Your Link Building Strategy, Receptional
7 Ways to Shake up Your Link Building Efforts, Search Engine Journal
Rebranding Your Product? Here’s How You Can Keep (And Improve) Your Link Equity, Raven Blog
Local & Maps
OpenStreetMap now lets you edit maps with Microsoft’s Bing Streetside imagery, VentureBeat
Mobile & Voice
Apple’s Siri director to speak at AI Frontiers conference in November, appleinsider.com
SEO
6 questions about redirects for SEO, Yoast
Amazon Search Optimisation: The Usurper of Search, Branded3
Google Sandbox: Does Google Really Hate New Websites?, ahrefs.com
How Sinister Mobile Popups Only Triggering For Uncookied Users (and Googlebot) Could Impact SEO, Usability, and Monetization, GSQI
How to Make the Right Landing Page Rank: A Complete SEO Checklist, Search Engine Journal
PPC
15 AdWords PPC Tactics For Clicks & Mortar Businesses, State of Digital
Search Features
Answer: How big was the range of these animals?, SearchReSearch
Other Search
The Complexity of Simply Searching For Medical Advice, Wired
