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:
- Googler Says He Does 20% Time, Not 120% Time As Former Google Executive Claimed
Business Insider reports that former Google executive, and now CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer claimed 20% time really didn't exist... - Spammy Google News Publisher Complains About Exclusion...
Sometimes you read these threads in the Google help forums and just want to give up and here is one case. A Google News Help thread has a publisher at boxingdispatch.com that is complaining they received an email from Google News about being removed as a publisher... - Google Mobile Ranking Demotion Messaging Confusing
As you know, Google will demote mobile sites that have issues displaying on mobile devices. Google may expand that even more so to not just display issues but mobile usability issues as well. Glenn Gabe shared... - Google News Will Index Your Images Hosted On Different Domains
Yesterday, Google sent out their first Google News Publisher newsletter and it has some nice information, but one big tidbit on the algorithm side that is very important for Google News publishers... - Google To Webmasters: How Should We Improve Web Search & Webmaster Tools?
This morning, Google posted on Google+ a request for webmasters to submit their ideas and suggestions on how to improve Google Web Search and Google Webmaster Tools. Google said that - Google Visitor Center Beta
Danny Sullivan was at Google yesterday and for the first time saw a visitor center at the GooglePlex. Google has really never had or allowed for touring of the Google headquarters without you being s
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- The much-praised Chilling Effects DMCA archive has taken an unprecedented step…, Google+ - David Iwanow
- Entity Mentions and Link Building, WebmasterWorld
- You can now sign up and use Google Domains in the US with no invite! The…, Google+ - Matt Cutts
- 5 Ways to Use Google Analytics for Your UX Research /via +SitePoint #analytics…, Google+ - Google Analytics
- Interaction designer, Xander Pollock, on Snooze in +Inbox by Gmail Because not…, Google+ - Gmail
- One of my favorite hobbies at Google was looking at the crawl schedule and…, Google+ - Pedro Dias
- Tips for Reporting Spam in MapMaker, localsearchforum.com
- User Generated Content (Comments) - What Impact Do They Have?, HighRankings Forums
- #AskAdWords - Improve your Impression Share, AdWords Community
- Hangout on Air: Getting back to Basics with Search..., AdWords Community
