The type of links that matter may have changed.

Yesterday we were the first to report that Google was having an issue indexing the web. Google then confirmed the issue a couple of hours later. It seemed it was resolved around 1pm ET yesterday

Google has fixed the issue with getting new and fresh content into their index. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Google announced that it’s indexing issues have been fixed. Is something going on at Google? The post Google Index Issues Resolved – What Happened?

Mike Blumenthal spotted Google renaming the Google Posts section in the local knowledge panel from “Posts” to “Updates.”

There may be a serious Google bug or it might just be a interface issue – I am not sure – but if you try to find recent content indexed by Google – Google won’t be able to help you out. If you try to search for content in the past hour or so from sites like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal or almost any site, you will be out of luck.

Remember earlier this year Bing wanted to slow crawling the web and request webmasters to push them content via their URL submission tool. They expanded their rate limits and opened their API for it. Now, Bing posted an easy to understand how to blog post on this topic.

Google’s John Mueller cleared up a misconception about the URL parameter tool in Search Console, saying it doesn’t remove URLs. The post Google’s URL Parameter Tool Does Not Remove URLs From Search Results via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Let me first start off with the title may sound more scary than it is, but I tried hard to come up with a short title for this post and I failed (traveling this week and I am tired). In short, with the new evergreen GoogleBot able to do more, some ad networks and other embeds GoogleBot can now render may render meta data, titles, canonicals, etc into your body content