Daily Search Forum Recap: August 27, 2018

Aug 27, 2018 • 4:00 pm | comments

(1) by Barry Schwartz

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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: We Take Web Site Spam Take Overs In Search Very Seriously
Google's John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout video that Google's spam teams take it super serious when a web site is taken over by another one in the search results. If you see that happen, Google wants to jump on those issues and tackle them quickly.
Google's John Mueller Is In Regular Contact With Web Spam & Search Quality Teams
Google's John Mueller has confirmed that he is in regular contact with both web spam team and the search quality teams at Google. There are many people who feel John and others from his webmaster trends analysts team are not in touch with those teams. Here is John saying that is not true - and even more so, they are in "regular" contact with them.
Google: Redirecting All Your URLs To Your Home Page Is A Bad Practice
Google's John Mueller said on Friday in a webmaster video that redirecting all of your URLs to your home page is bad practice. Instead, you should redirect those URLs on a one by one basis to the proper new location.
The Google Search Console New Link Report Has A Latest Links Download
Google's new link report in the beta Google Search Console does have a download latest links button. It was just hard to find as Bryson Meunier said on Twitter. It is on the main links screen, it is not within the external links screen.
Google Search Console Reports Removes Anonymous Queries
Last week we reported that some were notice huge drops in their Google Search Console reports when using the query filter. Well, Google just posted on their data anomalies page that they have removed what they call "anonymous query."
Google Students Big Social Media Post Sign
This is funny, some women at Google Dublin holding a cut out sign that looks like a post on Instagram, where they stand behind it and take a picture and then share that picture on Instagram - of cours