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: Malware Reviews Go Faster Than Hacked Content Reviews
John Mueller from Google said that generally Google is quicker at processing malware reviews than hacked content reviews. Malware is when you have some some of malware installed on your web site, removing it and submitting a reconsideration request will reverse that manual action. Hacked content is when someone hacks your site and injects content on new or existing pages.
Report: Google Local Q&A Display Bugs Confirmed
Mike Blumenthal, a local SEO expect, is at the Google PE Summit and he was told by the Google local team that there are bugs with the local Q&A feature where the Q&As are erratically showing and not showing.
Google: Median Time For GoogleBot To Render Is 5 Seconds
Martin Splitt from Google announced at the Chrome Dev Summit 2019 that the median time for GoogleBot to render is 5 seconds. But even the 90th percentile is done “in minutes” he said. He said “you don’t have to worry about week long delays” for rendering after GoogleBot crawls your page.
Another Google Webmaster YouTube Series: Search Console Training
Yesterday at SMX, Daniel Waisberg, Search Advocate at Google who works with the Search Console team, announced a new YouTube series on the Google Webmaster channel named Search Console Training. Yep, this series will train folks on how to use Google Search Console.
Google My Business Listings Disappear – It’s A Bug
If you login to your Google My Business listing area and look at the manage locations tab (which is the default page most go to when they login) – you won’t see any listings. There is a bug hiding them, they are invisible, but Google is aware of it and will fix it.
Google Ice Sculpture Drinking Fountain – PE Summit
Looks like Google is throwing a nice event for those at the PE Summit in Boulder this week. I believe a bunch of local SEOs are out there learning and sharing with the Google team.
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
Google’s pretty good at guessing, but the less Google has to guess, the less Google will guess., John Mueller on Twitter
The Bedlam Update, WebmasterWorld
What’s the tricky part with allowing crawling of the m-dot site? I realize robots.txt changes take time with big corps, is it just bureaucracy? I imagine our systems are just trying to make do, de, John Mueller on Twitter
Google Maps Allows Users to Report Spammy Users, Local Search Forum
It wouldn’t trigger a manual action, but merging / splitting / restructuring sites does take a bit of time to be processed, and the outcome is hard to know ahead of time, since it can involve bigger changes., John Mueller on Twitter
Report: Google Moves to Checking Accounts to Consumers, WebmasterWorld
The same applies there too. If you’re changing all URLs within your site, keep in mind that this can take quite some time to be processed, and you will see a drop in search during that time, even if you follow the, John Mueller on Twitter
Search Engine Land Stories:
Entries are now being accepted for the 2020 Search Engine Land Awards
Google starts new Search Console training series on YouTube
CallJoy, Google’s virtual phone agent for SMBs, gets an upgrade
The Search Marketer’s Playbook for Offline Conversions
Search Engine Land unveils Periodic Tables of PPC at SMX East
Understanding referrer clicks and how they can skew search engine market share
SEO myths busted by an ex-Googler
Part II Video: Danny Sullivan on what he sees differently now working inside Google
Make your remarketing more effective and less annoying with call tracking data
Other Great Search Stories:
Analytics
5 Steps To Track SEO Recommendations With Blended Data in GDS, Seer Interactive
Linking Analytics and Ads: The solution to today’s marketing challenges, Google
Measuring success with UTM tags, State of Digital
Users vs. Sessions: What’s the difference?, Whole Whale
Industry & Business
Google in 2020: From Everyone’s Search Engine to Everyone’s Competitor, SparkToro
Google to offer checking accounts in partnership with banks starting next year, TechCrunch
Microsoft A.I. and research chief Harry Shum leaves, CNBC
Links & Promotion Building
Nofollow, Sponsored, and UGC Links Guide, SEM Rush
Local & Maps
Building a Local Marketing Strategy for Franchises [Guide Sneak Peek], Moz
How to Get More Google Reviews | Benefits of Google Reviews, Hallam
Speak easy while traveling with Google Maps, Google Blog
Mobile & Voice
Canalys: Amazon shipped 10.4 million smart speakers in Q3 2019, almost tripling Google, VentureBeat
Verizon launches its own Android TV set-top box, called Stream TV (Update: No Netflix), Android Police
SEO
7 tips to keep you off of the SEO naughty list this holiday season, DealerOn
Accessing Bing Webmaster Tools API using cURL, Bing Webmaster Blog
Can You Optimize for Google BERT Update? NLP & Neural Nets Explained, Raven Tools
Google Chrome Dev Summit 2019 Recap: What SEOs Need to Know, DeepCrawl
How UX complements SEO to improve conversion strategy, Vertical Leap
Off-Page SEO: A Beginner’s Guide, RankRanger
Query Pattern Generation at Google, Go Fish Digital
The November 8, 2019 Google Update may have been a link related update, Marie Haynes Consulting
Yoast SEO 12.5: Behind the scenes improvements, Yoast
PPC
4 Ways to Rank Your Holiday Landing Pages, Authority Labs
Introducing adaptive anchor banners, Google Ads Developer Blog
Search Features
Introducing the Next Generation On-Device Vision Models: MobileNetV3 and MobileNetEdgeTPU, Google AI Blog
Israel’s National Library partners with Google to digitize 120,000 books, Jewish Telegraphic Agency
