The Industry Mourns The Loss Of Bill Slawski: The SEO Mentor To The Community

It pains me to write this - Bill Slawski, a man who has literally helped transform the SEO industry into what it is today, has passed away on Tuesday, May 17th. I've personally known Bill for two decades, starting when I first got into SEO and learning from Bill in the old Cre8asite Forums.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 19, 2022

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

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Google Shows Video Thumbnail In SERPs Without Embedding Video On Page?

Crystal Carter posted an example on Twitter of Google showing a video thumbnail for a snippet of her page but that page did not actually embed a video on the page. So if you visit the specific page, there is no video for a user to click on to play.

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Google Search Scroll To Highlight Now Can Share Highlighted Text Via Social, Email, etc

The Google Search and Chrome feature where you click on a snippet and you are taken to a position on that publisher's page and it highlights the appropriate text now also lets you share that text. Well, at least Google is testing that feature for some searchers, on some browsers and platforms.

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New Form Of Google Knowledge Panel Spam Or Is This A Simple Google Bug?

If you do a search on [seo services india] you will see a knowledge panel show up for a "musical artist" named "SEO Services in India." The question is, is this a bug with Google misinterpreting entities or is this specific manipulation by an SEO as a form of new Google knowledge panel spam?

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