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.
We have dug through a lot of the SEO forums and social media posts and highlighted how some were impacted by the Google May 2022 core update. The Google News performance report in Google Search Console had some logging issues for 2 weeks or so. Google Business Profiles had a bug that removed the ability to edit products, it was just a bug. Google is testing knowledge panels without a box. Google has suspending job training rich results completely.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
Other Great Search Threads:
- There are great SEOs in many places around the world. The beauty of the web is that you as a person can have a global effect regardless of where you’re physically located. That said, John Mueller on Twitter
- Do frequent Google updates demotivate you as a blogger?, BlackHatWorld
- [AMA] I know you probably hate me, but some people were interested so… I’m one of the guys who make these PAA question/answer spam sites. Ask me anything, Reddit
- Ads are going to be quite confusing. There already are “Apple Search Ads” (App store ads). Updates there:, Rob P on Twitter
- Average response time of 1.5 seconds is pretty high. Most sites I see are in the 100-200ms range., John Mueller on Twitter
- Here’s an interesting insight from my image thumbnails research/blog I’m working on. Google has a limit to how many image “grid” thumbnails that can appear on a SERP: the answer is 4. The entire page can however be filled wi, Brodie Clark on Twitter
- We don’t crawl all of the web, so I’m guessing / hoping that over the course of 20+ years, folks have worked on finding ways to focus the crawling on things that matter. The doc on “crawl budg, John Mueller on Twitter
Search Engine Land Stories:
Other Great Search Stories:
Analytics
Industry & Business
Links & Content Marketing
Local & Maps
Mobile & Voice
SEO
PPC
Search Features
Other Search
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