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:
- Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Updates & Reports, Moz Updates DA, Shoppable Ads, Bing & More
This week in search we posted our monthly Google webmaster report, it is a good way to catch up on the past month of Google stuff. Google may have done search ranking... - Weird Google Loan Knowledge Panel Has Chelsea Players On Loan
This is a weird Google knowledge panel for the query [loan]. It shows at the bottom right of the knowledge panel a listing of soccer players that reads Chelsea players on loan. It lists names such as Tammy Abraham, Tomáš Kalas, Lewis Baker, Mario PaÅ¡aliÄ, and Kenneth Omeruo. - Forrester: Wikipedia Lost 21% Of Their Traffic After Google Featured Snippets Launched
Duane Forrester, a former Bing representative and experience SEO who is very well respected, supposedly said at PubCon that Wikipedia's traffic dropped by 21% after Google launched their featured snippets. - Google In-Depth Articles Go Missing
Google has these in-depth articles for their snippets, they launched it in 2013 but now they are gone. According to Moz data they no longer show up. Also FiveBlocks who tracks data on this said they are all gone as well. - International Women's Day Google, Bing, Yahoo & More
Today is International Women's Day and the search engines have special logos and themes on their home pages for the day. We have logos from Google, Yahoo, Baidu, Sogou, and Bing. Here they are below: - Google Don't Be Evil Boxing Bear
I spotted this photo on Instagram from the Google NYC office. It shows a life size bear, wearing boxing equipment, that has a belt that reads "don't be evil." I am not sure where this is exactly but
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- yeah, we use lastmod (generally), but not changefreq or priority afaik.…, John Mueller on Twitter
- Answered to question is in bold... without the result being a (typical) featured snipped. @rustybrick have you seen this type of thing before?… https://t.co/DJJj4FVMTO, Justin Mosebach on Twitter
- Google Home Page Now Has "About" and "Store", WebmasterWorld
- Last Q. I asked Gary whether there were any changes in whether or not we should be disavowing negative SEO attempts. He said his recommendations have not changed. Here are my notes from his answer. @methode #pubcon… https://t., Marie Haynes on Twitter
- Your DA drops. What do you do?, Eoghan Henn on Twitter
- AFAIK we evaluate for mobile-friendliness every time we render a page for indexing. If a CDN makes it hard to render (eg, session-IDs in URLs so we can't cache, etc) then that makes it hard to determine a URL is mobile-friendly, John Mueller on Twitter
- Max file size is independent of the type of content, so those URLs would be included in there. Having a lot of sitemap files is fine though, split them up however works best for your setup.… https://t.co/tT9Pg9yJ1w, John Mueller on Twitter
Search Engine Land Stories:
- SMX Overtime: What really matters for SEO success
- Marketing analytics buyer’s guide for 2019
- SEOs beware: Link builders are back with bogus Domain Authority pitches
Other Great Search Stories:
Analytics
- CLV modeling for customer retention, Think with Google
Industry & Business
- A look into one woman’s job at Google: opening doors for other women, Google Blog
- A VR series about women with the “courage to question”, Google Blog
- SEO Career Day: Advice From a Top International SEO Growth Advisor, Search Metrics
Links & Promotion Building
- PR vs. ORM: What They Teach One Another, Go Fish Digital
- DA is the wrong metric for reporting on link-building, Distilled
- How to Use Domain Authority for SEO - Whiteboard Friday, Moz
Local & Maps
Mobile & Voice
- Google Assistant on Android TV can speak four new languages, Android Police
- Google rolling out Continued Conversation to all Smart Displays, 9to5Google
SEO
- A How To Guide: 5 Tips for the Best Local SEO Possible, Search Engine Guide
- Using SEO Tools for Beginners: How to Write an Article About SEO, Conductor
PPC
- How to conduct a PPC audit in 6 easy steps, Hallam Internet
