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…

YouTube provides insight into how views for its new Shorts video format are counted, and explains whether it impacts channel metrics like average view time.

Could Google stop making search available in Australia? Google warns that could happen if a new law, forcing them to pay for news content, passes. The post Will Australia Have to Live Without Google Search

On this week’s episode of Marketing O’Clock, hosts Greg Finn, Mark Saltarelli, and Jess Budde break down the biggest digital marketing news of the week. If you are unable to listen on Spotify, check out the video version of this week’s episode on the Search Engine Journal YouTube channel

Google My Business has updated the photo views Insights report to let you filter the images based on if the owner uploaded the photo or a customer uploaded the photo. There is a new drop down to filter by (a) all photos, (b) owner photos and (c) customer photos

The change has SEOs questioning which sites will win and which will lose, but one thing is certain: Nobody is going to stop optimizing for featured snippets.

Google is updating the design of mobile search results with a modern experience that makes it easier for people to find what they’re looking for. The post Google Redesigns Mobile Search Results via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

This week was a bit slower than a normal week but don’t you worry, it won’t last. Gary Illyes from Google spoke about how Google uses more expensive and faster storage for more important content. Google updated its crawl…

This year is not the year for the usual New Year’s resolutions. Read about the resolutions of some notable SEO industry experts here.

The new Account Issues section quietly rolled out during a week where many feel Facebook’s own lack of quality is brazenly showing. The post Facebook Updates Account Quality In the Midst of Its Own Failures via @SusanEDub appeared first on Search Engine Journal .