Daily Search Forum Recap: December 4, 2019

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:

Larry Page & Sergey Brin Hand Sundar Pichai CEO Role For Both Alphabet & Google
Big news came out last night from the Google blog where Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the co-founders of Google, are stepping down from their roles as CEO of Alphabet. Sundar Pichai, the person they put in the CEO spot…

Vlog #29: Jeff Selig On Early SEO Days, Google Algorithms, International SEO & More
My last vlog for my trip to Boston was with Jeff Selig (@seosem), who is the VP, Director of Earned Media and Analytics at Overdrive Interactive. He started back in 1995 when he bought his first domain and built a web site. He quickly became…

Poll: After The SEO Audit; Next Steps
Chris Green posted a few Twitter polls about what folks in the SEO profession do after the SEO audit is complete. The responses to the poll show that many times SEO professionals do not agree on implementation or maybe.

Do Effective & Efficient Web Sites Really Need SEO?
Pedro Dias, a former Googler, posted on Twitter this line “Doing SEO means either the website, or the search engine, or both, are not dealing effectively–and, to some extent, efficiently–with the web as they should.” In which, Gary Illyes from Google…

Google Images Dropped Custom Date Range Filter
Google Image Search has dropped the custom date range filter when you try to filter by time. This seems to have been removed a few months ago, so this is not “new” but I missed reporting this.

Google: Type Of Page Less Important Than Quality Of The Page
Google’s John Mueller was asked if the site should make the meta data of its audio files indexable by Google. In which John responded “Think less about the type of pages, and more about the quality of the pages…

Human Size Snow Globe At Google
Similar to a couple years ago, Google has these life size, human size, snow globes that you can go into and be part of.

Here is a photo from the GooglePlex in California

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

Question: When you talk about “Ranking” and ranking factors, does that involve SERP features or just the 10 blue links?, jessthebp on Twitter
We try to understand if the subdomain is a separate site or a part of the rest of the domain, and treat it appropriately. There’s noth, John Mueller on Twitter
What should go in robots.txt file in 2019, WebmasterWorld

Search Engine Land Stories:

Genius sues Google and LyricFind for more than $400 million in damages
Google My Business phone support has ended, but help from the experts has not
Why Should You Attend Search Marketing Expo?
How to breathe fresh life into evergreen content (and get fresh traffic, too)

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