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 Discovered But Currently Not Indexed Help
In Google Search Console, did you ever see the “discovered but currently not indexed” notice regarding your index coverage status report? Google says in their help document that it might be related to an overloaded server, but Google’s John Mueller says otherwise in this video hangout.
Google Local Services Ads Tests Showing Number Of Bookings
Google seems to be testing showing the number of bookings that happened through a local services ads directly in the Google ads. Tom Waddington posted a screen shot that shows Google displaying “booked 870+ times near you.”
Domain Name Registration Expire Date Or Length Not A Google Ranking Factor
We’ve covered this numerous times but hey, Google had to chime in again about the topic of domain name registration length and the expire date of a domain name not being used as a ranking signal by Google’s search algorithms once again.
Google My Business Insights Improves Data Latency
Kara from Google posted in the Google My Business Help forums that Google “made improvements to ensure that your Insights data is more up-to-date.” So the Google My Business Insights reports can “now see Insights data up to yesterday.”
Google Launches New Hotel Web Search Results Pack
Google has begun rolling out a new design for their hotel results local pack in web search. So if you search Google for hotels near X, Google will show you a new look for hotel results in that area, one that looks more like the hotel search results portal.
Face Mask On Pumpkin At Google Office
The air quality in California isn’t that great with the wild fires taking place right now, it is just really bad on so many levels. One person put a face mask on a pumpkin at the Google office to mak
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
If it’s their site, they can link however they want. I think you’re focusing too much on links, FWIW.… https://t.co/q3WiwzST3e, John Mueller on Twitter
Google launched new SEO Audit tool: What are your scores?, Reddit
Hundreds of Long Tail Keyword Articles to Migrate to Q&A-like Pages, WebmasterWorld
Low-res preview in Google Image results, WebmasterWorld
Microsoft Resumes Roll-out of Windows 10 Oct Update V1809, WebmasterWorld
Which is loaded first, robots.txt or htaccess?, WebmasterWorld
Search Engine Land Stories:
Send your team to SMX West to amplify learning and savings!
Bing histograms reveal better business intelligence metrics with data distribution
New design for hotel local pack now showing in Google search
Google My Business Insights to get more recent data
User comments in Google search restricted to live sports games
What should service area businesses be focusing on in search?
Google releases Target Impression Share, its latest Smart Bidding strategy
Other Great Search Stories:
Analytics
Annelieke’s Analytics: 5 Google Analytics segments for your blog, Yoast
Data analytics examples: An inside look at 10 success stories, CIO
Fun Facts about Your Web You Can Discover Thanks to Google Analytics, Nelio Software
Industry & Business
Google News may shut over EU plans to charge tax for links, The Guardian
Tim Cook defends Apple’s search deals with Google, Engadget
Links & Promotion Building
3 Proven Tactics to Help You Build More Awesome Links Efficiently, Search Engine Journal
Creative link building – Win before you begin, Distilled
Local & Maps
Google Rolls Out New Local 4-Packs for Hotels, Sergey Alakov
Mobile & Voice
Celebrating Mickey Mouse’s 90th anniversary with Google Home, Google Blog
SEO
Advanced SEO for Food Bloggers: An Interview With Casey Markee, SEM Rush
Google Webmaster Hangout Notes: November 13th 2018, DeepCrawl
Who Authors Your Content Matters: Here’s Why, Stone Temple
PPC
Improve ad engagement with longer Expanded Text Ads, Bing Ads Blog
PPC Budgets vs. Bids: What’s the Difference?, WordStream
Search Features
Google Search is adding user comments, starting with live sports, 9to5Google
Our Latest Intelligent Search Update, "Andromeda", Yandex
The Evolution of Google Result Types: An Infographic, Conductor
