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 Removed Twitter Results From Search
As you probably all know, Twitter has been hacked in a big way yesterday. In short hackers pushing a crypto scam hijacked Twitter accounts for Bitcoin, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Ripple, Binance, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Apple, and many more. It seems like Google took action by removing the Twitter boxes from the Google search results. - John Mueller On Google Rants On Ranking Factors
Google's John Mueller, Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt released another podcast this morning. This one they covered a bunch of topics including rendering with SEO but also John Mueller kind of had a rant on ranking factors. It is fun to listen to, so I recommend it. - Google: Remove A Lot Of Pages From Your Site, Remove The URLs From Your Sitemap
John Mueller of Google said it is a good idea to remove the URLs of pages you remove from your web site from your XML Sitemap file. He said "if you remove or change a lot of pages on your site, it's good to reflect that in a sitemap file." - Google Ads Adds Image Extensions, Responsive Ad Features, New Layouts & More
Google Ads has added a bunch of features and announced a bunch of new features according to their announcement yesterday. Google added image extensions beta program, a responsive search ad features to highlight your sales, promotions and shipping offerings, new creative layouts, automatically generated video ads, and updated dynamic ads, a new customer acquisition goal in Smart Shopping campaign settings and more. - Google: It Is Safe To Keep 302 Redirects Up
Here is a new question I don't think I've seen before. Someone asked Google if it is safe to keep a 302 redirect up for a long time. The question was "how long is it safe to use a 302 redirect?" The answer is, it is safe to keep them up for a long time. - Gary, Martin, John & Anna Recording The Google Search Podcast
Here is a photo from Gary Illyes of Google, of him, Martin Splitt, John Mueller and Anna Barto (a video producer at Google) recording the podcast. He shared this on Twitter.
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Filed in with the: “search bar test” archives. Looks like the Goog is testing out a blue outline in the mobile search bar. Probably another string of mobile search bar tests to come. https://t.co/rsDKp1ONpx, Brodie Clark on Twitter
- Sorry about this. I've passed it on to the team for review., Danny Sullivan on Twitter
- These are all automatically selected, as I'm sure you understand. You can also report using the Feedback link. This is likely against our policies and a case where we'd take, Danny Sullivan on Twitter
- Yeah, saw it and made a note to pass it along. Feels like there's the text enough on some of these that we shouldn't show them when that command is used., Danny Sullivan on Twitter
- Buying google reviews for new business risky?, BlackHatWorld
Search Engine Land Stories:
- Back to basics: How to manage your brand through a crisis
- Upleveling your digital asset management strategy for the modern workforce
- How to source and vet content writers [Video]
- Important Update: Changes to the 2020 Search Engine Land Awards
- Why audience context matters
- Augmented reality starts driving sales: AR product engagement increased mobile purchases at eBags
- Smart Shopping campaigns get shipping annotations, ‘new customer’ bidding control
- Google opens image extension beta, adds countdowns to responsive search ads
Other Great Search Stories:
Analytics
- Content Marketing Analysis in Google Analytics Video Tutorial - Part One, Adswerve
- The Only Report You Need In Data Studio to Run a Successful Business, Omi Sido
Industry & Business
Local & Maps
- Local SEO Audit: 4-Part Checklist to Help You Move the Needle on Local Search, Raven Blog
- Menu Bugs in Restaurant GMB Dashboards, Online Ownership
Mobile & Voice
SEO
- Introducing the Moz API for Google Sheets, Moz
- SEO Myth: You Can’t Measure SEO, BruceClay
- SEO ROI Calculator (Updated July 2020), Go Fish Digital
- How to think about ranking in Search, and much more!, Search Off the Record
PPC
- Decoding decisions to grow online sales with Google Ads, Google Blog
- Google's Conversion Action Sets Utilization, PPC Hero
Other Search
