Daily Search Forum Recap: February 25, 2020

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: Changes To The Search Systems Take Time
  
  Remember when Danny Sullivan of Google showed how he documented an issue in Google search to share internally for review by Google engineers? Well, he was then asked for an ETA on the fix. In which he said “There’s not going to be an immediate change.” These changes take time and need to be tested he added.




• Google: We Still Use PageRank Internally
  
  Google’s John Mueller said that in 2020 does “use PageRank internally.” He added that it is one of among many other signals Google uses. But Google does not use domain authority, a metric from Moz, he had to say again.




• When John Mueller Of Google Is Frustrated A Site Not Ranking Well
  
  I often give this fluffy advice that you should “build a site and content that Google is embarrassed doesn’t rank well for the queries they deserve to rank for.” Well, here is an example of that advice working. John Mueller of Google has watched a site do everything it should and it still doesn’t rank. What is he going to do?




• Forget Google Ad Partner Badge, Get A Client Partners Badge Instead
  
  This is fun – as you know, the SEM community is not super happy about the change in requirements around the Google partner badges. Google tried to clarify and dumb it down a little but in short, SEMs feel the requirements align too much with Google revenue goals and less with client goals.




• Google’s Right Hand Side Featured Snippets Are Being Removed But Not Moved To Center
  
  As you know, Google said they would move the right hand side featured snippets from the right side to the center, but until then, Google would stop deduplicating those snippets. According to both RankRanger and Moz, Google has removed a nice chunk of those, about 60% according to these tool providers.




• Car Body Frame Suspended In Air At Google Office
  
  I am not sure what this is about. Maybe it is an art project of some kind. But I found this photo of a car body frame suspended in air near the Google offices, the GooglePlex, in Mountain View, Calif

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

• Current glitch with Google Ads. They are having an issue pulling in the account ID on the bank account statement. Very tough for agencies that put ad spend on their card and rely on this piece of inform, Jason Parks on Twitter
• Hello to @YouTubeLiaison — where @MattKoval is in a new role of helping people better understand YouTube and helping YouTube better hear user feedback., Google SearchLiaison on Twitter
• An important clarification, no actual chats were shown to be indexed. We and other search engines indexed pages that were not blocked from search engines and listed some, Danny Sullivan on Twitter
• Is there anything you can do about competitors having fake reviews?, Local Search Forum
• U.S. Says Ensure Update to Chrome 80.0.3987.116, WebmasterWorld
• We primarily crawl from the US for search, so that’s the speed we’d see. That said, for website speed, we use a variety of metrics with lab & field data, so the websearch-crawling location, John Mueller on Twitter
• Yeah, usually these are seen as redirects. There are various ways to do JS redirects, we should be able to pick up on them if they execute automatically & change URLs., John Mueller on Twitter

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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