Daily Search Forum Recap: August 17, 2018

Aug 17, 2018 - 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:

  • Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Medic Update Advice, SEO Tips, Featured Snippets, Search Console, Manual Actions & More
    This week in search, I covered what SEOs are doing about the Google Medic update, and how you can report issues to Google around it. Google said taking old content and relabeling it as new is not a good SEO hack...
  • Google Crawls Pages More Often If They Are More Important & Popular
    Google's John Mueller confirmed that Google crawls pages more often if they are more important and popular. So if a page is not crawled so often, that can be a sign that the page is not that important to Google.
  • Did The Google Medic Update Make Search Worse? Show Google Examples.
    Google is asking you to provide examples of how the search results are now worse off since after the Google Medic update which was released on August 1st as a core broad Google algorithm update. Gary Illyes said let him know examples on Twitter and do not just say that a competitor now outranks you.
  • Google Launches Expandable Featured Snippets
    Google announced they have launched a new form of featured snippets that offer expandable snippets to help a searcher dive deeper into the aspects of a specific query. We actually saw Google testing this this past April and now it is officially live.
  • Google Search Console Sends Useful HTTPS Gone Wrong Notifications
    Google is now sending useful notifications about issues when you migrate from HTTP to HTTPS. In the example Alan Bleiweiss showed below, Google told him that 80% of the HTTP pages are not showing up on the HTTPS version. That is a useful notification!
  • YouTube Live Streaming Disabled For Many
    I am seeing a huge number of YouTube creators complaining in the YouTube Help forums that their ability to live stream on the platform has been disabled. Google has confirmed there is an issue they are looking into fixing so they restore access to live streaming.
  • The Google Beach Party
    Here is a video from the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity that shows Google had another beach party this past year. I remember they did one back in 2012, maybe they do one every year

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