Daily Search Forum Recap: July 27, 2018

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 Algorithm Update, Quality Raters Guidelines, AdWords Now Google Ads & Speakable Markup
This week was pretty busy, we had an unconfirmed Google algorithm update. Google updated their search quality raters guidelines, removed them from being downloaded, added them back – oh, and John Mueller hasnât read them yet…

Google’s John Mueller Hasn’t Read The Updated Quality Raters Guidelines

Google’s John Mueller said in this morning’s webmaster hangout at the 6:18 mark that he has not yet reviewed or read through the updated search quality raters guidelines PDF…

Google Can Combine URLs Before Crawling

Google doesn’t want to list the same content in the search results for a single query…

Google Events Rich Results Boosts Events Search Results

Google announced new features in search for event results. I covered it in detail yesterday at Search Engine Land, but it is important to mention here as well…

Google Ads Updates Landing Page Parameters Options

Google announced on Twitter yesterday that they have added “two changes to make it easier to specify landing page parameters.” Specifically (1) Final URL Suffix is now available in Google Ads and (2) the number of custom parameters available has also increased from 3 to 8…

#SEOChat Opens Up On Depression Within The Search Industry

This article was written by industry friend Jenny Halasz @jennyhalasz who we have cited here numerous times. She wanted to publish something on an important topic and here it is.

#SEOChat is a fixture in the search community on Twitter…

Lyudmila Rudenko, Grand Chess Master, Gets A Google Logo

Today on Google’s home page is a special Google logo, Doodle, for Lyudmila Rudenko. Lyudmila Rudenko was a a Soviet chess player who was one of the most influential chess players of all time. She was the second women’s world chess champion…

Louis Gray’s Google Conference Room
Louis Gray now works at Google but before that, he was a top named Silicon Valley tech blogger, before 2011. Now he is big into collecting Android figurines. 🙂 Anyway, he shared a photo of him stand

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

Depending on how you query, you might see differences from filtered queries (the totals in SC show the total, adding up the individual queries will exclude those that are filtered).… https://t.co/LuNb3Swnlv, John Mueller on Twitter
Facebook Shareholders Propose Ousting Chairman Mark Zuckerberg, WebmasterWorld
If the pages have the same intent, I’d just make one stronger page instead. There’s no guarantee for crawling, indexing, or ranking — be it for one page or multiple.… https://t.co/9pD6pComTO, John Mueller on Twitter
It’s all for you. Now you can “follow” neighborhoods to keep tabs on the areas you love. Only available on Android.… https://t.co/3RRV0Deh0q, Google Maps on Twitter
Mozilla plans to remove RSS feed reader support from Firefox, WebmasterWorld
We use a variety of calculated & measured metrics internally, there’s no single tool / number that will be equivalent. I’d use these tools to find low-hanging, high-impact issues that you can resolve to make your s, John Mueller on Twitter
Just hung up on an “important business message” where they urged me not to hang up on them. I had no choice but to do so when they then started to warn me about my Google business listing. A local SEO does not cold call you, Bill Slawski on Twitter
Keywords in URLs as ranking factor?, WebmasterWorld
Mozilla Exec: Google Slows Down YouTube on Non-Chrome Browsers, WebmasterWorld
Our Google SOS / Crisis Response is active for #carrfire with official info, updates and more: https://t.co/0rKPUPkZj4… https://t.co/NOKKS0QUtZ, Danny Sullivan on Twitter

Search Engine Land Stories:

7 easy ways to multiply your conversions
How to use SEO for big ROI during back-to-school and other sales events
Report: Google mobile speed update has no impact on general mobile rankings
Lyudmila Rudenko, Soviet chess player, featured with a Google logo
Search in Pics: Noogler cake pops, Louis Gray conference room & Google Dance Singapore
Lenovo debuts Smart Displays featuring Google Assistant
Google Ads intros new URL parameter options ahead of parallel tracking deadline

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