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 Implies Uploading Your Products To Amazon’s Marketplace Can Hurt Your Rankings
Google hints at how having a web site and also being in the Amazon marketplace with the same products for sale can impact your site’s performance in Google search. Google wants to show diverse search results.
SEO Tip: Don’t Do As Google Does, Do As They Say
Just because Google sets up a subfolder over a subdomain or uses a 302 redirect over a 301 redirect – it doesn’t mean Google made that decision for SEO reasons. So don’t just blindly follow what Google does.
Google: We Don’t Understand Regions; We Do Understand Countries & Metros
Google has confirmed that when it comes to hreflang annotations, they support it for countries and not regions. Gary Illyes explains why Google doesn’t think it is a good thing to support this at the regional level.
Bing Webmaster Tools API Fixed After Almost A Month
After almost a month of the Bing Webmaster Tools API not returning results due to a technical glitch, Microsoft has just confirmed they fixed the issue. They apologized for the frustration and promised to do better.
Google Local “You Recently Viewed” Search Panel
Google is now showing you a personalized search carousel for recently viewed vacation destinations in Google search. Clearly Google thinks you really should book that vacation.
Google Home Mini Golf Area
We have seen Google offices with miniature golf before but here is one space at Google selling Google Home devices with mini golf. Maybe a play off the name Google Home Mini or maybe not, here is a p
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
Ad Grants launches a Certified Professionals Community, The Google Advertiser Community
500% increase between June and July – Google AdSense, WebmasterWorld
“This week, HSBC, a financial institution with around 3,900 offices in 67 cou…, Google+ – Google
“Today, the European Commission issued a competition decision against Android…, Google+ – Google
Introducing https://t.co/tSG0wjCLp0 Check out and bookmark this link to stay updated with latest news and announcements from Google Ads ;)!… https://t.co/dAn5VOb1pW, Google Ads on Twitter
We’ll get this fixed.…, Danny Sullivan on Twitter
Search Engine Land Stories:
Google search adds dataset schema support to search results
Google adds deep breathing exercises to search results
You need 23 keywords in a blog post to rank well. Not.
The ultimate guide to HTTP status codes and headers for SEO
Bing Maps adds build and share your itinerary
Other Great Search Stories:
Analytics
Google Analytics: Dissecting Bounce Rates for Ecommerce, Practical Ecommerce
The 8 Most Important Google Analytics Filters, Loves Data
Industry & Business
Google Kent Walker SVP of Global Affairs, CNBC
Meet the rising stars at Google, Business Insider
Links & Promotion Building
How to Qualify Sites for Link Outreach, Siege Media
Link Reclamation: How to Easily Find (and Reclaim) Lost Backlinks, ahrefs.com
What is Link Building?, Vertical Measures
Local & Maps
Is Google My Business Sending People to your FAX Machine?, mockingbird.marketing
5 Areas of Local SEO For B2B Marketing, KoMarketing
Mobile & Voice
HomePod phone calls could arrive with iOS 12, Engadget
SEO
Content maintenance for SEO: research, merge & redirect, Yoast
Quality Scores for Queries: Structured Data, Synthetic Queries and Augmentation Queries, SEO By The Sea
9 Things You Didn’t Know to Achieve a High Ranking on Google, Search Engine Guide
Better Than Basics: Custom-Tailoring Your SEO Approach, Moz
How to Make Dynamic Content Personalization Work for Your Company, SEM Rush
Want Better SEO? Stop Writing Content., Go Fish Digital
PPC
A Manual Bidding Process for an Automated World, Search Engine Journal
How to Improve Your Landing Page Quality Score (video), Brad Geddes
Other Search
The “Why” of Search – Understanding Search Intent, redcanoemedia.com
YouTube web player now adapts to different aspect ratios, Android Police
