Daily Search Forum Recap: January 16, 2019

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 Ranking Algorithm Update Chatter January 15th
  Over the past 24-48 hours, I’ve been seeing some chatter amongst the SEO communities, a bit more in the black hat space, but still chatter. Chatter of a Google search algorithm update touching down the past couple of days.
• Google May Ignore Your XML Sitemap If The URLs Are Invalid
  Google’s John Mueller confirmed on Twitter that Google may stop fetching your XML Sitemap files if the URLs within them are invalid. He said it is fine to have URLs that redirect but they should load content. If not, Google may simply start ignoring your Sitemaps.
• Google Tests Ghost Town Like Search Results For The EU
  The EU is a fun place, they have lots of rules and regulations and want Google to do lots of things that may not benefit the end user. I am not a lawyer, I don’t live in the EU but when I saw what Greg Sterling posted on Search Engine Land – I had to share it here.
• Google URL Inspection Tool Adds HTTP Response, Resources, JS Logs & Screenshots
  Google just announced an update to the URL Inspection Tool within Google Search Console. It adds the ability to see the page’s HTTP response, page resources, JavaScript logs and a rendered screenshot of the page. This is a really useful update and gives webmasters and SEOs more insight into the page itself and how Google sees it.
• Google Subway Car Sign
  Here is a photo I found on Twitter from the Google Atlanta office. It shows what I think is from the inside of a subway car, within the office there, and hanging is a sign to Google with an arrow. Lik

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

Search Engine Land Stories:

Other Great Search Stories:

Analytics

Industry & Business

Local & Maps

Mobile & Voice

SEO

PPC

Other Search

This marketing news is not the copyright of Scott.Services – please click here to see the original source of this article. Author: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

For more SEO, PPC, internet marketing news please check out https://news.scott.services

Why not check out our SEO, PPC marketing services at https://www.scott.services

We’re also on:
https://www.facebook.com/scottdotservices/
https://twitter.com/scottdsmith
https://plus.google.com/112865305341039147737

The post Daily Search Forum Recap: January 16, 2019 appeared first on Scott.Services Online Marketing News.

source https://news.scott.services/daily-search-forum-recap-january-16-2019/