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:
- My Google World Is Upside Down: Matt Cutts Complains & Danny Sullivan As Google Spokesperson
I am telling you, my Google and SEO world is literally upside down right now. So yesterday, at Search Engine Land, I reported how Google had a bug where they showed recent searches pop up automatically on the Google home page under the search box... - Google: URL Folder Structure Doesn't Need To Match Content Folder Structure
Let's say you have a recipe site and you have recipes by vegetables. If you let people click from the tomatoes and then into a tomato soup recipe... - New Google Lens Rolling Out To Pixel 2 Devices
Pixel 2 users will soon get the new version of Google Lens... - There Was Google Featured Snippets Change Up In Past 30 Days
Pete Meyers from Moz was tweeting yesterday about how the featured snippets at the end of October have significantly changed. He said "it looks like a lot of the SERPs that lost Featured Snippets around the end of October gained general Knowledge Panels... - Google: Most Sites, Even Large Ones, Don't Use Parameter Handling In Search Console
Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that most sites on the internet do not use the parameter handling feature in Google Search Console. John said "most sites, even large ones, never touch those settings." He said the average site has no use for it... - The Bing Select Partner Plaque
Here is a photo of a Bing advertising company showing off their new Bing Select Partner plaque. It looks substantial, don't you think? The company must sell search ads and sold enough of Bing Ads to
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- GMB - New 'Admin Rights' Procedure?, Local Search Forum
- Google Promises to Remove Android Tracking When Location Services Disabled, WebmasterWorld
- Turn customers into advocates with our newest tool for businesses. Visit https://t.co/Vegy7rtppR to create and share customizable assets fea… https://t.co/gSULytHFNh, Google My Business on Twitter
- @meetyadav04 @randfish You'd need to go far beyond just compiling things that are already known & indexed., John Mueller on Twitter
- Our sales team in Dublin had a blast getting festive for a holiday photo shoot and wanted to remind you to get the most out of your festive… https://t.co/jNZRTJQc4P, Bing Ads on Twitter
- Testing the Ability to Pass Link Equity - Getting Odd Results, WebmasterWorld
- Uber Pay Hackers to Delete 57 Million Stolen Customer Credentials, WebmasterWorld
- We do have some things around duplicate content that are penalty worthy' Google https://t.co/KfhEa9DcS0 #hoboseo, Shaun Anderson on Twitter
- We made a data thing to help you avoid #Thanksgiving traffic... ...outlook not so good. https://t.co/EWM4qWq9gZ https://t.co/W91LYZ2YPI, Google Maps on Twitter
