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:
- Glass Enterprise Edition 2 - Google Glass 2 Again?
Yesterday Google announced version 2.0 of Google Glass again. I say again because 2.0 I thought came out in 2013 when they came out with an upgrade of the version 1 model. But this is Glass Enterprise... - Google URL Inspection Tool Is Not For Images
Google's URL Inspection tool within Google Search Console only works for web pages. It doesn't work for images or other file types yet. John Mueller from Google had to confirm this on Twitter the other day... - Yandex Webmaster Tools: SEOs Should Check It Out
Have you ever checked out the Yandex webmaster tools? Yandex is a huge Russian search engine but you don't need to care so much about your rankings in Yandex to use... - Google John Mueller: Voice Search Query Data Shouldn't Be A Priority
For years and years now, Google has been suggesting that Google Search Console way add ways to see your query data filtered by voice search. So you can see how people search using voice versus... - Google Street View Car In A Ditch
Bill Hartzer, a long time SEO, shared a photo with me of one of those Google Street View cars he found in a ditch. He said "This Google street view driver must have been ...
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Baidu posts first loss since IPO listing in 2005, WebmasterWorld
- Plenty of options. I'll let you figure them out since they're not search engine exclusive.… https://t.co/BD8D3uavFa, Gary Illyes on Twitter
- You used to have "Disallow: /#*" in the robots.txt -- that blocks all crawling ("#" is for comments). Over time, as the URL is reprocessed, we should be able to index it normally again.… https://t.co/szu1tWpYcp, John Mueller on Twitter
- How to contact Bing Webmaster Support if they don't answer?, WebmasterWorld
- Sitemap files are meant to be processed automatically by scripts, so the user-agent used doesn't really matter.…, John Mueller on Twitter
- Sometimes hacks generate a lot of URLs -- depending on how long they were around, they might get indexed. Glad to hear you spotted a hack!… https://t.co/3L2v0H4RQR, John Mueller on Twitter
- Visualizing @MLB's top home run hitters of the past decade in #GoogleDataStudio. This one's for you, @louisgray! Viz: https://t.co/evQunagoFW Data from Baseball Savant (@darenw)… https://t.co/HVWpbSgB4f, Marc Soares on Twitter
- Why use short URLs for linking in the first place?…, John Mueller on Twitter
- Yelp Review Filter Just Got Stricter?, Local Search Forum
Search Engine Land Stories:
- SEMrush expands to Amazon with Sellerly for product page testing
- Be smart, advertisers. Here’s how to approach rising Google brand CPC
- Search Engine Land Awards 2019 Finalists announced: Full list
- These are the Google Ads reporting metrics still affected by May 2 bug
Other Great Search Stories:
Analytics
- How to automatically adjust Dimensions in Google Data Studio, Michael Howeely
- How to Create an IP Address Filter in Google Analytics, Monster Insights
Industry & Business
- A promising step forward for predicting lung cancer, Google Blog
- Google employees compete in 24-hour "lemon" car race, Google Blog
- Huawei’s phone business would be decimated without Google’s Android, The Verge
Links & Promotion Building
Local & Maps
- Best Google Maps features, tips, and tricks, Business Insider
- Google Maps and Other Web Mapping as Litigation Tools, New York Law Journal
- Phone X ad compares Apple Maps to Google Maps AR, 9to5Google
Mobile & Voice
- Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 drops to $999 and adds Qualcomm's XR1, VentureBeat
- Google Assistant at three years old: Still a toddler with lots of potential, Android Authority
- Google Assistant Is Closing the Skills Gap, But Alexa Still Dominates, PC Magazine
SEO
- 12 reasons your SEO traffic is plateauing and how to fix it, Kevin Indig
- Google Webmaster Hangout Notes: May 17th 2019, DeepCrawl
- Why Pagination is Important – Here’s Why #215, Stone Temple
- 7 Proven SEO Reporting Best Practices That Boost Client Retention, Moz
- bingbot Series: Easy set-up guide for Bing’s Adaptive URL submission API, Bing Webmaster Blog
- Google Image Classification and Landmarks, SEO By The Sea
- How to Add the New HowTo Structured Data to Your Content, Brodie Clark Consulting
- In Search SEO Podcast: Going with a Full Stack Writer for Your SEO/Marketing Content, RankRanger
- The Language Of SEO: Identifying And Implementing Central Keywords, ReadWrite
PPC
