August 14, 2017 | Written by: Jeremy Beckett Share this right now:Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)MoreClick to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Like this:Like Loading... What’s this about? This is an extract from TWIS SEO News & Updates 04 August 2017. Read these tasty morsels of SEO Bits & Pieces for a guide to the lastest SEO shenanigans and tips on how best to deal with these SEO Updates and News. If you would like to discuss ways these SEO Bits and Pieces could impact your web business, feel free to contact me. #SEO #SERP #GoogleAdwords #MobileSearch #UserExperience #Googlebot Bits & Pieces Commentary from SE Roundtable, noting that Google’s Adwords listings are looking more, and more, and more like normal, everyday organic listings, Perish the thought. Adwords & Organic Listings Merge – H/T SE Roundtable After I’d spent a long time consoling myself that Google hasn’t added a hamburger menu to its mobile pages, what goes and happens? They add a hamburger on mobile! Fortunately these are more account actions, rather than primary navigation options, but still. Google’s Mobile Hamburger – H/T SE Roundtable Googlebot’s crawl limit is now about 200mb. That is an awful lot of page. Or really poorly formed infinite scroll. H/T Glenn Gabe – Twitter There was a fair degree of excitement over a small update to the Google quality raters guidelines. Personally, I think these are interesting (having written lots of publication / editing guidelines before) but not earth-shattering. The point of them is to help improve Google’s algorithms, not edit SERPs directly. H/T Jennifer Slegg @ The SEM Post Apparently, Google tested a version of SERPs last week in which there were no URLs displayed on mobile. This is a bad thing, make no mistake. It makes picking the URL to click a bit more of a lottery, which is silly. I often use a search as a bookmark and know the URL to click rather than the title. It also helps to distinguish between a trusted source and a dodgy source. And I’m not alone. H/T The Next Web Return to Top Mobile First is NOT Mobile Friendly I recently wrote about how Google’s Mobile First is Not Mobile Friendly. Read it now. Return to Top TL;DR Lots of bits & pieces this week. Adwords SERPs getting more like Organic SERPs. Google hamburger menus. Googlebot will crawl 200mb for each page. Quality raters guidelines updated. Mobile SERPs may be dropping URLs. Read The State of SEO in mid-2017. Read about how Google’s Mobile First Index is not Mobile Friendly. Thanks for reading. If you would like to discuss what these changes mean for your web property, or would like to know how to implement them, please feel free to contact me. Return to Top Related Share this right now:Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)MoreClick to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Like this:Like Loading... Post navigation ←Previous: Are You Checking Your GMB Pages for Mystery Updates? Next: TWIS SEO News & Updates w/e 11 August 2017 →