Daily Search Forum Recap: October 16, 2019

Oct 16, 2019 - 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:

  • Vlog #20: Dan Shure On Podcasting & Winning Google Core Ranking Updates
    Dan Shure (@dan_shure) founded a company named Evolving SEO, but before that, he was a music teacher, he has a degree in classical piano. When he was approaching 30 and had a home and wife...
  • Google My Business Q&As Disappearing?
    Many local SEOs are noticing that the Google Local Q&A or Google My Business Questions and Answers feature is buggy. Some are saying the Q&As are going missing and disappearing.
  • Google Adding City Names To Some Snippet Titles
    Some SEOs are noticing Google add to their title tags that are displayed in the Google search results snippet's headline a city name. Lily Ray posted about this on Twitter and said "I've seen Google modify title tags many times, but this is the 1st time I've seen Google append a city name to a title tag for a generic service page it *thinks* should have a local intent."
  • Google's New Snippet Controls Rolling Out In A Few Days With Changes To Google France
    Google has given us a heads up that the new snippet controls it announced a few weeks ago will begin rolling out "in a few days" and "be fully live worldwide by next week." This coincides with the European press publications changes in France, where Google cannot show snippets, which "will be fully live by October 24."
  • Google Webmaster Conference To Happen In Zurich
    Google is bringing its Webmaster Conference to Zurich on December 11th. I definitely cannot make this one, although, if timing was better, I'd fly out for it. But it looks like a great line up of talks throughout the afternoon.
  • Google Pixel 4 Pizza Box With Pizza
    This is a weird Google promotion for the Pixel 4. You have a real pizza box, with a storage spot for the Pixel phone, but in the box is also real pizza. Here are photos I found on Instagram.

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