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 Asks For Photo Of Business Hours
Ben Fisher noticed and posted on Twitter that if you try to edit a business's hours in Google search under the local knowledge panel... - Bing Crawl Consumption Not Showing Return On Investment
Joost de Valk, the founder of Yoast, posted some interesting data on Twitter yesterday around crawlers and how much they consume of their site, how active they are and if there is any return on investment. The big one is that Bing crawled ~84... - Google: Crawl Budget Optimization Is Overrated
Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that he believes that crawl budget optimization is overrated in his mind. He said for most sites... - Google Search Tests New Tab Bar Navigation
Reena Jha from India shared with me on Twitter a new search interface being tested by Google, maybe only in India, I do not know. The new interface puts the navigation in tabs in the footer of the page... - Recapping The Say Something Nice About An SEO/SEM Series
In October, I thought it would be nice to say something nice about the folks in our industry and I started a daily post about how specific individuals in our SEO/SEM... - Google Indoor Workspace Tennis
Here is a video I spotted on Instagram of two Googlers playing tennis, indoors, by their workstations. They are pretty good. Marco La Porta, who shared it, wrote " warm up #italy #tennis #google." T
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- New updates to Google Lens help you do more with what you see: đ Smart text selection đ Style matching â˛ī¸ Real-time results… https://t.co/uMVtfoXfLV, Google on Twitter
- #CEPIC2018 Today the @Google Workshop "Understanding Google Image Search and How to Optimize For It" with Gary Illyes (@methode) at 14:00! Talking about optimizing content for #GoogleImages - FREE entry for the public. Learn more here:, CEPIC on Twitter
- Found a very odd glitch : GooglePixel, Reddit
- Introducing.. prerender-loader! đ° Painless universal pre-rendering for Webpack. âšī¸âī¸ Improve first paint, often without a code change! ⨠https://t.co/8IVQ06iIzF… https://t.co/X, Jason Miller
