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…

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Charity sponsored links sometimes are considered spam, while other times they’re fine. What’s the difference? Google’s John Mueller explains

Google’s John Mueller hinted that you should aim for your “Time spent downloading a page” metric in Google Search Console to be less than a few 100 milliseconds. He said he has seen some less than 100 milliseconds and some way over 1,000 milliseconds.

I was offline the past two days but when I came back, I saw a nice amount of chatter of a possible Google update starting around September 11th. Most, not all, of the tools are showing significant volatility and there is some chatter

Live webinar: Thursday, September 20, at 1:00 PM ET (10:00 AM PT). Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Here’s a free Google Ads script that delivers a detailed report on the impact of Google’s inclusion of “same meaning” queries in exact match close variants. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Here’s what some marketers are saying about the move to include same meaning queries in exact match close variants.

After testing zero-search results back in March, Google may be testing showing no results again. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.