Daily Search Forum Recap: December 19, 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 Mobile-First Indexing Now Used For Over Half Of Google’s Search Results
  Just about two years after Google announced their mobile-first indexing initiative, to crawl the web as a mobile device first versus crawling the web as a desktop device, Google hit a major mile stone. Over 50% of the search results Google returns globally are from Google crawling and indexing the web using mobile-first indexing.
• Poll: SEOs Like The Old Over The New Google Search Console
  Most people, by nature, do not like change. I love new tools and playing with new things, but I like consistency and big changes I try to avoid. But also, change can bring really big opportunities. So when I saw the results around most SEOs liking the old Google Search Console over the new one, I was not surprised.
• Google: We Can Detect Automated Link Dropping
  With all the chatter around links, negative SEO, the tools, etc – Google’s John Mueller said that the tools used to do automated link drops are “old school” and thus, Google has probably seen this behavior before. He basically said, Google is good at detecting them and ignoring these types of spam also.
• Poll: Most SEOs Don’t Offer Guaranteed Success
  You hire an SEO to typically improve how much qualified traffic your web site gets. With the aim of driving more conversions and revenue for your business. But do SEOs give guarantees on such performance? The answer is typically no.
• Still Having Google News Indexing & Ranking Issues? Start A New Thread
  So you know, Google has been working on addressing issues around Google News publishers with being seen in the Google News and web search results. It seems most of the issues are resolved but if you are still having issues, Google wants you to post those details in a new thread.
• An SEO Made Google John Mueller Socks
  This is funny. Marie Haynes made specialized socks for her SEO team with John Mueller’s face on it. Yes, John Mueller from Google has his own branded socks now. Here are some photos of them from Mari

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

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Other Great Search Stories:

Analytics

Industry & Business

Local & Maps

Mobile & Voice

SEO

PPC

Search Features

Other Search

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