Daily Search Forum Recap: September 11, 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:

• Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Gets Ahead Of The Elections, Local Ranking Bugs, Bing Search Updates & More
  Yesterday afternoon, Google posted information about some of the changes it has been making to improve the reliability of its search results. This announcement was mostly about Google getting ahead of the elections but we heard a few new things and confirmations. Google had some…
• Yesterday’s Google Search Announcement Was Not About A Core Update
  Yesterday, Google posted two blog posts around how it delivers reliable information in its search engine. Some believe this is a pre-announcement to a core update but it is not. It does not mean a core update is not happening very soon, we are due one and we are waiting for it. But this announcement is unrelated to any core update.
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Google Easter Egg
  Google has a new easter egg for Google Search, this one is for a search on [fresh prince of bel air]. The logo changes to the logo above, a Google graffiti logo. And then the whole interface changes to old school, 1990s…
• Google My Business Bug When Changing Addresses For Service Area Businesses (SAB)
  Google seems to have a bug when changing the addresses of some server area businesses (SABs) according to local SEO Ben Fisher. He said on Twitter that “ff you are trying to change an address for a (SAB) Service Area business, adding an address and clearing it is not working. In most cases, it will revert back to the initial address.”
• Bing: Hreflang A Weak Signal For Us
  Fabrice Canal from the Microsoft Bing team said that “hreflang is indeed a far weaker signal than content-language at Bing,” on Twitter. Bing I believe does not really pay much attention to your hreflang markup, as Google does.
• Google Chicago Scrap Wall
  Here is a photo from the Google Chicago office of the signature or scrap wall that has a bunch of names, messages and notes on it. I believe the photo is pretty old but it was recently posted on Inst

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

• It’s cute but we need to diversify the Google Search Relations team. @searchliaison let us know if you’ve got any open roles, happy to share with @techseowomen 🙌🏽, Areej AbuAli on Twitter
• It’s not quite that easy, and we have a lot of practice dealing with sites in search of shortcuts :). I don’t mind if people “abuse” our algorithms by making faster & better sites though. https://, John Mueller on Twitter
• We’d probably forward it to the canonical, but … if there’s something you want to have happen, I’d make sure it’s as obvious as possible. Don’t rely on search engines having to guess, and don’t rely o, John Mueller on Twitter
• An impression would be when we show the URL as a link in the search results. If it’s something the user has to expand first (like a FAQ item), then the impression would be when the user sees that link (regar, John Mueller on Twitter
• Bing Webmaster Tools URL Inspection is a powerful new tool allowing webmasters to check and take necessary actions on their URLs for crawling, indexing, SEO and markup details and other errors. https://t.co/tI2TJgfO7T, Bing Webmaster Team on Twitter
• Google AdSense – Provide your seller information with sellers.json, WebmasterWorld

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