Daily Search Forum Recap: October 30, 2019

Oct 30, 2019 • 4:00 pm | comments

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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:

New York Times Search Ranking Drop After Google BERT Update
The New York Times said it may have seen a "huge" impact from the Google BERT update and by impact it means a decline in search traffic from the search engine. Hannah Poferl, the Associate Masthead Editor for Audience at The New York Times told me so on Twitter.
Google: Don't Crawl Your Site To Build A Sitemap File
I never understood why people would use a crawler to build their XML sitemap file. I guess if you don't have access to read the database of your CMS you would do that but seems so inefficient. John Mueller of Google said that also on Reddit.
Vlog #22: Eric Enge On SEO Testing, Structuring Content & Managing Client Expectations
Here is part two of my interview with Eric Enge (@stonetemple) where we get into more SEO focused topics...
Google: We Are Not Working On Content Submission & Crawling Removal
Earlier this month, Bing announced a pilot to allow some publishers to submit content and the HTML to the search engine without Bing having to crawl the page at all. This would effectively remove the requirement to crawl these sites. I asked Google if it is considering doing so as well and the company said no.
Google Ads Login Bug Did Not Impact Ad Serving Or Reporting
Google confirmed it has an issue with the login feature to the Google Ads console. Google said on Twitter "At ~8am PDT we experienced an outage for
Google Is Investigating Broken Search Operators
Google is investigating possible issues with what appears to be broken search operators. Specifically issues with the related search command and also intitle and inurl commands. Danny from Google said he will investigate and try to find out what is going on.
Noogler Cookies With Ingredients
Here is a photo of cookies, shortbread cookies, Google made for the Nooglers, new Googlers, at the Google office the other day. We can even see the ingredients for these Noogler shortbread cookies.