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 Webmaster Guidelines Adds Not To Block Google Ads With Robots.txt
A new update has been made to the Google webmaster guidelines document... - Google February Update: Possibly A Google Panda Refresh?
There is a tremendous amount of chatter going on about Google updating over the past couple days or so at WebmasterWorld. On February 6th we had the Page Layout algorithm update but that didn't cause much of a fuss in the SEO forums. But something over the past couple days is... - Google On Faceted Navigation: Block A Lot Of It
Google's Developer Programs Tech Lead, Maile Ohye and Crawl Team, Mehmet Aktuna wrote a detailed blog post on best practices for faceted navigation... - The Typical Day Of A Google Spam Fighter
Yesterday, Matt Cutts, Google's head of search spam, posted a long video describing what the typical day is like for a Google spam fighter... - Google Analytics Launching New Navigation Design
Google Analytics is rolling out a new design for their navigation and sidebar. The new design is less bright orange and more gray/white. Google Analytics said on Google+: Some of you may have noticed a shiny new nav and sidebar inside of Analytics... - Google Product Building Blocks - Literally
Daniel Waisberg from the Google Analytics team posted a picture of a grouping of large Google blocks with various Google product logos on them. He was upset Google Analytics was missing from the batc
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Definition of thin content. What is it exactly?, WebmasterWorld
- Moved Site Dropped Like a Rock, WebmasterWorld
- Mozilla plans to sell ads in Firefox browser, WebmasterWorld