Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Daily Search Forum Recap: June 30, 2020

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

Google: Stock Photography For Google Search Does Not Matter

Google's John Mueller was asked if using stock photography on your pages would hurt the page's chances of ranking well in Google search. Do you need a unique image per page? John Mueller responded that "it doesn't matter for web-search directly."

Google Tests Trending Icon In Search Suggestions On Desktop

Four years ago, Google began testing trending icons and results in the Google search suggestions on mobile. Some searchers really disliked it and Google enabled an opt out method for it. But it seems recently Google now began testing the same thing on desktop.

Disqus Comments May Not Get Indexed Even After Google's Fix

It seems that even after Google said it fixed the indexing issues with Disqus that has been lingering on for a while, that Google still may not be able to index all Disqus comments. Glenn Gabe said he noticed issues after the fix was rolled out. He showed those issues to Martin Splitt of Google who said that can happen.

Top Ranking Sites In Google Use SEO Plugins?

John Mueller of Google posted on Twitter "I imagine the top-ranking sites don't use any SEO plugin." This was after someone posted a poll asking "which SEO Plugin is perfect for SEO?"