Daily Search Forum Recap: October 3, 2017

Oct 3, 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:

  • October 2017 Google Webmaster Report
    This past month was filled with many many Google algorithm shifts, ranking changes, tools going nuts and chatter at all times high. We saw lots of ranking changes last week which Google didn't really confirm. Then the week of September 15th or so and then a couple weeks before that...
  • Google Autocomplete Showing 10 Suggestions Again
    In July, Google dropped Google Instant Search and with that, the autocomplete suggestions scaled back to show 4 suggestions instead of 10. Well, in the past 24 hours or so...
  • Should Google Label Content Served Through Flexible Sampling?
    As we covered yesterday, Google is launching flexible spending as their new more relaxed method of the first click free program. So basically publishers have more control...
  • Google Ignores rel=shortlink Link Attribute
    Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that Google ignores the rel=shortlink link attribute. Th proposed usage of this is by adding rel="shortlink" to a hyperlink...
  • Google Sitelinks Search Box Is Back
    Last week we reported that the Google sitelinks search box disappeared - well...
  • Bing Wood Wine Bottle Holder
    Here is a photo of a wine bottle with the Bing branding on it. It is a wooden wine bottle holder with the teal Bing logo printed on it. It supposedly was the prizes given to the winners of the Septemb

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