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.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
- Have Google Index Your AJAX, Here Is How
In October 2009, Google proposed a way to index AJAX. Back then, all it was, was a proposal, but it was not implemented. However, last week, Vanessa Fox reported that the AJAX feature for Google is now live and well. I am not going to get into the technical details of how it works again. In fact, you can read about that over here and begin implementing it as soon as you like. We currently - Bing: We Know About Your Images & Choose Not To Show Them
We rarely ever talk about Bing's outstanding image search, but I spotted a thread today in the Bing Community forums on that topic. In short, one webmaster complained that Bing had about 50% of the images from his site, when compared to Google. So Google had about 50 pictures from this guys site in their index, coming up for a site command. Bing had about half that. Brett Yount forwarded the complaint the the image - Google Help Forums To Change Member Ranking System
The Google Web Search Help, Google News Help & Google Merchant Center Help forums all are announcing new changes coming to how forum members are ranked in these forums. Currently, the member titles or levels are from Level 1 to Level 4. Some users get special titles, such as top contributors and/or certified professionals, or even Googler's get a special label, labeling them as Googlers. I do not believe the labels will be changing, but - Yahoo Releases Search Marketing Desktop Just In Time To Kill It
Yahoo announced they have removed the BETA from the Yahoo Search Marketing Desktop client. Yahoo Pete, Yahoo's search ad representative, said in both a WebmasterWorld & Search Engine Watch Forums thread: Just wanted to make you aware that our desktop editing tool, Search Marketing Desktop, is now available to most of our advertisers (eligibility is based on minimum monthly spend and a few other factors). Using SMD, it takes just a few clicks to modify - SMX's SphinnCon Israel 2010 Recap
Yesterday was the second ever SphinnCon event, a small Search Marketing Expo, ever. The first one took place about two years ago in Israel and the second took place yesterday in Israel. The second event was a bit larger than the first in terms of the number of sessions, speakers and attendees. Overall, the networking and educational event was a huge success and we look forward to hosting one again next year. The even took
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Indexed but no SERPs two months after changing domains. Normal or a Bug?, Google Webmaster Help
- Links suddenly started opening in new tabs when I click on them, Google Web Search Help
- Liveblog Coverage from SMX West 2010, Sphinn
- Why Single Keywords are For Losers, Sphinn
