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 BlogDash Penalty, AdWords Interface & Local Pack Ads
This week, I test out my new Mevo camera from LiveStream, let me know your thoughts. Google penalized the BlogDash network for link schemes. Google’s new AdWords…
Google: You’ll Almost Never Restore Your Rankings To Previous State After Penalty
Google’s John Mueller said in a Google+ hangout this morning at the 8:09 mark that after you “recover” from a penalty, “it’s almost never going to be that we will just restore the previous state” of your rankings you had prior to the penalty…
Google: Sitemaps Don’t Help With Rich Snippets
In the Google+ hangout this morning a typical question around why isn’t Google showing rich snippets for my site when the tool shows everything is valid came up. A typical question and we know Google doesn’t show rich snippets for many sites because it doesn’t reach a quality threshold…
The AMA With Google Brain Team Teaches Us Google Won’t Talk About RankBrain
As you know, Google hosted an AMA with the Google Brain Team yesterday on Reddit and I went through the 742 comments in the thread to pull out any references to search, RankBrain or rankings and honestly…
Google Adds JSON-LD Breadcrumbs Support
John Mueller of Google confirmed this morning on Twitter that Google now supports JSON-LD format/schema for breadcrumbs.
Currently, the documentation for breadcrumb schema makes no mention of JSON-LD, but John Mueller said that will change…
Google Stain Glass Logo
Here is a photo of the Google logo made out of stain glass. Richard Hay from Google shared this on Google+ and wrote that I like “different takes on the Google logo, how about one in stained glass.”
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
Google Fined $6.8 Million in Russia Over Antitrust, WebmasterWorld
Google testing new layout for knowledge panel? Side-by-side images & double stars @rustybrick @JoyanneHawkins https://t.co/O4ONzrMLc3, Dave DiGregorio on Twitter
Introducing #AMP Ad Landing Pages. Making the post ad click experience great: https://t.co/jIRccDQU9g, AMP Project on Twitter
Link Maintenance Matters, WebmasterWorld
Top 10 Advertiser Tips for Search Campaigns, The Google Advertiser Community
Yelp asking if Pokéstops Nearby, localsearchforum.com
