Daily Search Forum Recap: August 9, 2017

Aug 9, 2017 - 4:00 pm 0 by

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: Don't Use The User Agent Language Setting
    Google's John Mueller said that while GoogleBot generally crawls documents "without an accept-language header" it is not a good idea to use the user-agent language setting to serve content. This is in response to a webmaster who asked about using it...
  • Google: SEOs Help JavaScript Coders
    Yesterday, John Mueller from Google posted on Twitter a notice to all SEOs that they should embrace JavaScript and help JavaScript developers learn SEO. In short...
  • Google Maps Updates Options For Reporting Business Photos
    This is a small update but Sergey Alakov documented that Google has updated the suggested reasons for reporting an inappropriate business photo. So when you report a photo you see in a Google Local result...
  • Bing Ads Updates Quality Policy, Will Remove Non Performing Ads
    Bing announced new updates to their Relevance and Quality policy yesterday. This is to drive better metrics across the system and "delivering improved ad and network quality...
  • Massive CPC Drops Across Google AdSense Publishers
    Over the past 48 hours, there has been a spike in complaints around Google AdSense showing huge CPC, cost per click...
  • Giant Google Chair
    Here is a photo I found from the Google Dublin office of a giant chair, really big chair, somewhere in that office. Mario Bini shared the photo on Instagram and wrote it was from the second floor of

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