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

YouTube is launching a new type of search results page that appears when users look for videos by hashtag. The post YouTube Launches New Hashtag Search Results Pages via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Here is a SEO new question I don’t think I’ve seen before. Someone asked if you need to link to all your pages from your home page. The answer is obviously no but not all new SEOs or site owners know this.

If you had to prioritize your content strategies as an SEO, where would you focus? For me, if I had more time, I would focus on category page content because clearly the individual blog related content I produce is frequent and somewhat enjoyed by the readers here

A new report in Google Search Console will help news publishers measure the performance of their content with greater accuracy.

We’ve heard of Google ranking copied scraped content before and even getting the canonical wrong. But here is a clear night and day example of a site that copied another site completely, with the logo and everything but the URLs and Google Search thought the copied site is the original site.

Martin Splitt of Google announced and confirmed that he and his colleagues are in the middle of the planning stages for the 2021 line up of Google Search virtual events and conferences. He said on Twitter “Good news, everyone! We are in the middle of setting up a bunch of virtual events (including, but not limited to, another virtual unconference!).”

Yelp launches new rating feature for community to leave feedback on local business social distancing and mask compliance. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Google’s John Mueller responded to a concern in the Reddit forums that when it comes to the Salesforce Commerce Cloud, the only real way to use a 404 page not found, is not to use a 404 but a 410 status code. John Mueller of Google said “404 is fine. 410 is fine,” trying to reassure this person that both should be fine and not to be concerned