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 Update, Mobile Hidden Content, AdSense, Posts & More
This week in search, I admitted I could not find an obvious pattern from the Google June 25th algorithm update. I did publish my monthly Google webmaster report. Google said in the mobile first index…
Google Confirmed Again: Content Hidden In Tabs With Mobile-First Index Is Okay
Back in November of last year, Gary Illyes from Google said content hidden in tabs is okay in the mobile-first world. Well…
Google: Publishing 100,000 Pages At Once Is Not An SEO Issue
I have heard time and time again from SEOs that they don’t like to push out too much new content on a web site all at once…
Google: Embedding YouTube Videos Doesn’t Help With Search Rankings
John Mueller of Google had to say in a Google Webmaster Help thread that adding a YouTube video to your page will not make the page high quality by itself. Videos from YouTube on your pages won’t give you a ranking boost or show Google that the page is higher quality…
Google: Exact Match Domains Don’t Get Magic Ranking Bonus
John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that if you have an exact match domain, aka EMD, it doesn’t give you a magic ranking bonus in Google. John said “there’s no magic EMD bonus…
Bing Branded Rounders Bat
Here is a photo the Bing Ads team shared on Twitter of a Bing branded Rounders bat. Rounders is a game I honestly never heard of and I had to look up on Wikipedia. It looks like an interesting game.
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
Oh wow, just exceeded 10,000 users! Thanks for the awesome feedback and to everyone who used Search Analytics for Sheets! https://t.co/UjTjEvdDka, Mihai Aperghis on Twitter
Building a map for everyone, everywhere: now you can add accessibility inform…, Google+ – Google
Google blows $800k on bots to flood the UK with 30,000 ‘articles’ a mo, WebmasterWorld
Meet the new AdWords expeience https://goo.gl/LOS5xc The new AdWords experie…, Google+ – Google Ads
The answer to “how to see across time.” Turns out there are lots of ways to d…, Google+ – Dan Russell
