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.
Writing that you tested a product in your product review content is not enough to communicate to Google that you actually physically tested a product. Google has expanded its product comparison feature in search to let you quickly add new products. Google Ads has a new dashboard to show account managers how they are doing across all their accounts. Google said there is no technical method to have pages show up as featured snippets. Bing’s people also ask added search refinement options.
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Other Great Search Threads:
- Autocomplete is based off common searches, but they are intended to help people complete queries they’ve already started not provide unhelpful, unexpected predictions. That’s why we have extensive systems and p, Danny Sullivan on Twitter
- Crawling and indexing are two separate processes. I find myself having to explain this more and more to clients. But I still would like one word that could Define the two processes together. Does anyone have any thoughts?, Joe Hall on Twitter
- Google generally ignores the part after # for crawling & indexing, so they’d be the same., John Mueller on Twitter
- Google tag manager is not reliable for any SEO directives. Please stop putting SEO directives/metadata in google tag manager. This goes for any implementation of directives/metadata that relies on JS injection. It, Dave Sottimano on Twitter
- If the content is essentially the same, folding the URLs together would be expected. With hreflang, the URLs can still be swapped out in the search results, they, John Mueller on Twitter
- If you’ve seen an odd increase in 403 errors, it may be a problem on Cloudflare’s end. Their firewall was blocking Google over the past week., Igal Stolpner on Twitter
- It’s one of the common hreflang mistakes. Looking at a presentation from 2013 which we did, others are “en-na” (Namibia, not North America), “jp” (should be “ja” for Japane, John Mueller on Twitter
- When running an ecommerce website, there are various issues that can impact overall website performance. ⚙️ Watch #EcommerceEssentials, a new series where we explore, identify, and streamline solutions for commo, Google Search Central on Twitter
Search Engine Land Stories:
Other Great Search Stories:
Analytics
Industry & Business
Links & Content Marketing
Local & Maps
Mobile & Voice
PPC
Search Features
Other Search
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