Daily Search Forum Recap: November 8, 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:

Google Search Console Tests New Domain Property
Google hinted they were working on a new concept for property sets within the new Google Search Console. Well, here is a screen shot of one person gaining access to what Google is calling the “new Domain Property.”

Google Doesn’t Care If You Copy Legal Disclaimers & Privacy Policies
Google’s John Mueller responded that it’s no problem for Google if you copy a legal disclaimer or privacy policy you used on one of your web sites and gave it to another web site. I mean, think about it, do you want your legal disclaimers to rank well in Google anyway?

Google Ad Grants Deactivations Spike; Reactivation Requests Necessary
Michelle from the Google Ad Grants team confirmed in a Google Ads Help thread that Google has recently deactivated a nice number of Google Ad Grant accounts before the big charity season because of compliance issues. There is now a backlog for Google to review and Google is asking these non-profits to use the reactivation form.

Google: Disavow File Spaces Does Not Cause Sites To Drop In Ranking
It has been a while since I saw John Mueller from Google outright call someone’s SEO theory “completely incorrect.” There is an article where an SEO said that a space in his disavow file results in his site tanking on November 1st. John said that is incorrect and unrelated.

Matt Cutts Speaks At Google
Matt Cutts left Google over 4 years ago, well officially 22 months ago, but really 4+ years ago. Yesterday he came back to give a talk about the USDS, the US Digital Services team and how they use te

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

See our updates and expansions of the things you care about, like image and #visualsearch, football insights, 2018 ballot measures and more: https://t.co/qRyiucPzrH… https://t.co/m1J0Hb1EJ5, Bing on Twitter
No preference for Google, both help us understand parts of the title text., John Mueller on Twitter
Ripoffreport.com manual action?, WebmasterWorld
VEO sounds like a stretch (at least in my … ears :-)), but “voice interaction design” looks like a fascinating line of work., John Mueller on Twitter
We just announced support for foldables at #AndroidDevSummit, a new form factor coming next year from Android partners. Android apps run seamlessly as the device folds, achieving this form factor’s chief feature: screen co, Android Developers on Twitter

Search Engine Land Stories:

PPC toolkit expands with Bing Ads Scripts’ cross-account operations
3 differences between Bing Ads Scripts and Google Scripts you need to know
Google Search Console experiments with domain properties
Could Google Alerts spam hurt your SEO?
How to use Chrome User Experience Report to improve your site’s performance

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