Daily Search Forum Recap: December 20, 2018

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:

• Google Search Pronounce Feature
  A Reddit thread shared a screen shot from I believe Google India where they have a search result that helps searchers pronounce words. It reminds me of the Word Coach feature also only available in India that helps searchers learn new words.
• Google How To Schema In The Search Results For Slack
  It looks like Slack was able to leverage the new how to schema to get some of their API help documentation pages to show richer results in the Google search results.
• Google Mobile First Indexing Notices Are Delayed Within Search Console
  Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that there is a delay currently with the notices that go out after a site has switched over the Google Mobile First Indexing. John said “We’re a bit behind with messaging of the mobile-first indexing because we’re switching to a model that reduces the number of messages owners of many sites get (currently in test, should be catching up in the next weeks, assuming all goes well :)).”
• Google My Business Products Beta Gets Update Design
  Kara from Google said in the Google My Business Help thread that they have done a user interface refresh of the relatively new Product Editor interface. This can be found on some Google My Business consoles under the Product beta link.
• Macaulay Culkin Getting Ready For Home Alone Google Assistant Commercial
  Here is a photo from, what I think is the prep room, where Macaulay Culkin was preparing for his Google Home commercial where the Google Assistant helps him with Home Alone. The video of the commerci

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

• Verizon to Replace Oath Brand to Verizon Media Group, WebmasterWorld
• AMP only vs mobile, desktop and AMP? : bigseo, Reddit
• Created a Google Data Studio report that I’m sharing that allows you to export Google Search Console keyword data by day/trended: https://t.co/P3QYAltzTN As the new Search Console doesn’t have this ability, this is super import, Jonathan Jones on Twitter
• I don’t know about phone numbers & where they’d be used in your instance, but generally we expect to have structured data be reflected in the visible part of the page as a form of confirmation. So if you’re using SD for one val, John Mueller on Twitter
• I’d just keep it. Changing image URLs can take a long time to be processed, and you’re not going to win anything in exchange.…, John Mueller on Twitter
• Microsoft Releases Important Fix for IE Zero Day Bug, WebmasterWorld

Search Engine Land Stories:

Other Great Search Stories:

Analytics

Industry & Business

Links & Promotion Building

Local & Maps

Mobile & Voice

SEO

PPC

Other Search

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