It has been a bit slow with the holiday and New Years season but we have some news for you all in the SEO world. We posted our monthly Google webmaster report. Yelp did an update a couple months ago that made reviews disappear. Google launched a new AMP feature for featured snippets. Google featured snippets are testing a blue feedback bar. Google is testing a feature to stream shows and movies via search. Google has a zero result for recording a video. Google said links from non-English sites are not unnatural. Bing said be careful with the robots.txt file. Unicode worked for Google local listings for a few days until Google killed it. Google is testing larger messaging buttons for the local panel. Google is testing moving the Google Posts higher up in the local panel. Google’s John Mueller was helloing webmasters on New Years. That was this past week in search at the Search Engine Roundtable.
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Search Topics of Discussion:
- January 2019 Google Webmaster Report
- Yelp's Ghost Update In October: Reviews Drop Out & Not Recommended
- Google AMP Featured Snippets Anchor & Highlight Content
- Google Featured Snippets Tests Blue Feedback Bar
- Google Tests More Movie & TV Streaming Options In Search
- Google Zero Results For Record A Video Result
- Google: Links From Non-English Languages Are Not Unnatural Links
- Bing: We Ignore Default Robots Directives If There Is A Bingbot Section
- Unicode Works Within Google Local Listings
- Google Drops Unicode Hack In Local Panel
- Google Tests Larger Messaging Buttons In Local Panels
- Google Moving Google Posts Back Up?
- Google's John Mueller Helping Webmasters On New Years
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