Daily Search Forum Recap: May 30, 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:

• Google Can Crawl Web Workers That Schedule Work Immediately
  Martin Splitt from Google confirmed that Google's crawler, GoogleBot, can indeed crawl and index web workers but only if they don't delay the work. He said if you are using web workers and you want it indexed by Google, you should "schedule your work immediately."
• Live: Google 3D Objects With AR Support In Search
  It is live - the 3D images in Google search results is now available to searchers. Just open your mobile browser, search for [shark] or other supported 3D objects and click on the "View in 3D" button for that object.
• Google: Our Indexing Issues Fully Resolved - Really
  If you are still having indexing issues with Google, they are unrelated to the previous Google bugs we reported about says Google's John Mueller. Google had two indexing bugs last week with discovering fresh content and then a month ago, had indexing bugs with removing older content from their index. They had more bugs as well - but if you are having issues after Sunday - that is just normal and not a Google bug.
• Time For Google To Update Your Favicon In Search?
  I've been covering the favicon change in the search results almost every day since it launched but a new question SEOs want to know is how long would it take Google to update the favicon they display in the mobile search results for your site after you change it. For the most part it seems like most SEOs said it takes around 24 hours, sometimes less.
• Google Chrome Omnibox Image Thumbnails In Search Suggestions
  I personally have disabled the omnibox search suggestions or autocompletes in Chrome but a bunch of SEOs are saying Google is now showing image thumbnails in those search suggestions. Here are tweets and images from people in the industry that are saying this is new.
• Buddhist Monks At Google
  Here is a photo from Peter The Greeter at the GooglePlex with 10 Buddhist Monks. It must be the time they come to Google to draw a sand mandala? I am not sure but they've done it numerous times.

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

• "Need for SEO" is obviously a bit subjective (and my tweet is a bit snarky, of course :)), but there are lots of ways to get customers, and sometimes findability plays a big role, sometimes it's less critical.… https://t.co/A, John Mueller on Twitter
• Join @g33konaut and @noopkat to learn about “new microformats” : STRUCTURED DATA in this 🙌bonus footage 🙌from last week’s SEO Mythbusting episode! Watch here → https://t.co/Nh9GTZ1i2F… https://t.co/kpXtbtzQ0A, Google Webmasters on Twitter
• oh, wait... Thanks for catching that :)…, Martin Splitt @ on Twitter
• Does responding to Google reviews in Dental Industry break Patient Confidentiality?, Local Search Forum
• Less people?, WebmasterWorld
• We strayed off the Googlebot topic a bit, but we felt we should keep it, so here's a bonus video with @noopkat and me discussing Structured Data 🎥… https://t.co/fOGWuOhUi5, Martin Splitt @ on Twitter
• Wow @googlechrome now lets you set custom geolocations in developer mode & it's making me very happy.…, Danny Sullivan on Twitter

Search Engine Land Stories:

• A favicon is worth a thousand keywords
• Google sunsetting two bidding strategies in June
• SMX Advanced is next week. Don’t miss out!
• How to run Screaming Frog SEO Spider in the cloud in 2019

Other Great Search Stories:

Analytics

• Getting Started with Google Tag Manager Custom Templates, Bounteous

Industry & Business

• Facebook, Google Lose Share Of Time Spent On-Site As Bing Sees Increase, MediaPost
• Google Should Google the Definition of ‘Employee’, New York Times
• The Top 25 Most Influential Experts of 2019, PPC Hero

Links & Promotion Building

• How to Leverage Your Local User Data for PR, SEM Rush

Local & Maps

• Google Maps adds ability to see speed limits and speed traps in 40+ countries, TechCrunch
• The Case For Pin-point Local Tracking, Moz
• Google Maps adds helpful route preview to commute notifications, Android Police
• Google Maps Adds Speed Trap Alerts in 40 Countries, Gizmodo
• Google Maps increases risk of developing Alzheimer's, expert warns, Telegraph

Mobile & Voice

• Amazon adds ‘Alexa, delete what I said today’ command, TechCrunch
• Banks find that investing in Android pays off, Google Blog
• Google Assistant can now control GE’s smart microwaves, Engadget
• Google Assistant Phone settings adds Material Theme, 9to5Google
• Google Assistant screen search broken for Android users, 9to5Google
• Google’s Play Store starts requiring games with loot boxes to disclose their odds, The Verge

SEO

• Google Jobs - The Second Largest Job Platform in the UK., SISTRIX
• Google Webmaster Hangout Notes: May 28th 2019, DeepCrawl
• How to Do SEO for Bing and Increase Your Organic Traffic with 24.7%, Cognitive SEO
• How to Use Archived Versions of Websites for SEO Troubleshooting, Search Engine Journal
• SEO Trends 2019: The Latest & Most Current Tactics that Actually Work, HigherVisibility
• Webinar Recap: The Challenges of Enterprise SEO With Eli Schwartz & Jon Myers, DeepCrawl

PPC

• Chrome to limit full ad blocking extensions to enterprise users, 9to5Google
• Migrating from position to impression share bidding strategies in Google Ads, Google Ads Developer Blog
• 5 tactics the pros use for maximizing ROI, Microsoft Advertising
• Effective Google Ads management - 7 Google Ads mistakes to avoid, Hallam