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 App Indexing Support Forum Moved Off Google Forums
About six-weeks ago, Google's John Mueller announced in the Google Webmaster Help forums that they have moved support for Google Firebase app indexing... - Does Google Drops Featured Snippets Over Typos?
Britney Muller from Moz, no relation to John Mueller from Google, posted on Twitter several weeks ago that Moz lost a featured snippet in Google because the page had a typo, a spelling mistake. She said when she fixed the typo... - Google Survey On The Site: Search Operator
Google posted on Twitter a survey asking webmasters why they use the site: search operator. If Google didn't say a month ago that they are keeping the site command I'd be concerned that this was about Google potentially pulling this useful search operator... - Block Google & Delist Your Web Site In Google By Accident? Many Have Done So!
Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Overflow, posted on Twitter the other day that he once checked in a robots.txt that deindexed all Stack Overflow content from Google. In which, Matt Cutts, the ex-Googler, responded that "to be fair, a lot of people do this... - Google Tests New Recipe Search Results User Interface
John Doherty posted a screen shot on Twitter of Google testing a new recipe user interface for the mobile search results. We've seen similar interfaces before but in this case... - Google London Sitting Hammock
I know, this is not a hammock but I don't know what this is called and Google reverse image feature did not help me. This image was posted by Stephan, a new Googler, on Instagram. It is him relaxing
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Wanted to prove a point that we could easily hijack ranking for 'search engine optimisation', just by using Google's own starter guide. https://t.co/3J5VWzo6Y4, Dan Sharp on Twitter
- !Marie_Haynes Remember when spammy sites used to link to Wikipedia, Yahoo, CNN in their footers? Fun times., John Mueller on Twitter
- Google doesn't use the keywords meta tag., John Mueller on Twitter
- kongskullisland has their own @GoogleMyBiz account #Fakereviews funny but what about GMB integrity? @rustybrick @methode @JohnMu https://t.co/mBiHEBwrXw, Wolf Of SEO on Twitter
- @rustybrick I know emojis have been making a comeback to the SERPs but this is the first time I've seen a fancy font in a title tag https://t.co/haIejfj3zA, Casey Emanuel on Twitter
- Did Abe really say that? How about Twain? Maybe Tom Peters? This week it's a..., Google+ - Dan Russell
- Facebook Adds Warning Label Over "Fake" Stories, Eventually, WebmasterWorld
- France and Germany are lobbying for backdoor encryption, WebmasterWorld
- Google Featured Snippets Gets Grief For Spreading "Fake" Information, WebmasterWorld
- I got asked to write up 'How Google’s SEO guide search rankings were hijacked'. Here it is - https://t.co/geLkqXv0Z1, Dan Sharp on Twitter
- WordPress 4.7.3 Security and Maintenance Release, WebmasterWorld
