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:
- Google: We Don't Have Whitelists For The Penguin & Panda Algorithms
In March 2011, Matt Cutts of Google told us Google does indeed have exception lists or what you call whitelists, but a week or so before that... - Google's John Mueller When He Isn't Allowed To Answer Questions
There are always extreme outliers in virtually any algorithm but when that outlier hits your site and your web site drops in the Google rankings, what do you do... - Google AdWords Now Allowing Link Buying Ads?
Rand Fishkin from Moz posted on Google+ that Google AdWords seems to have lifted their ban on link selling/buying companies from advertising on their network. He shared a screen shot showing link selling services and companies selling links to link buyers... - Udi Manber, Former Search Quality VP, Leaving Google
Udi Manber is leaving Google after joining the company back in 2006 and becoming Google's vice president of search quality. He has written for Google about search quality in the past and was fundamentally involved in the caffeine update... - YouTube London Cafe
Daniel Waisberg from Google London stopped by the YouTube office there, named YouTube Space London and snapped a picture of their clean looking cafe. I don't see any good, but I do see a lot of place
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Best Practices: Combine AdWords with Google Analytics for Better Insights, Bidding and Results, Google Ads - Google+
- Pigeon, Mobile, User Centroid & Local Search Spend - David Mihm @ Street Fight, localsearchforum.com
- [WMT-107804] aggressive spam, Google Webmaster Help
- 133,000 Tweets Show Us How Google Indexes Twitter, Eric Enge - Google+
- Good news: Chrome 40 will start supporting HTTP/2, Zineb Ait Bahajji - Google+
- Google SEO - Affiliate links redirects and cloaking, WebmasterWorld
- Google Tag Manager Tools V2 by Simo Ahava, Google Analytics - Google+
- http to https - Final Checklist Webmaster, WebmasterWorld
- I Believe Both Http & Https Versions Of Website Are Appearing In S, HighRankings Forums
- I can't find my ad!, AdWords Community
