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's John Mueller: I'd Avoid Link Building In General
In a Google+ live hangout with Google's John Mueller on last Friday morning, John answered the question, "is link building in anyway way good... - Google Has Issues Crawling Recursive Redirects
Ever see a web page that when you visit it, it just keeps redirecting back to itself... - Google: The Submit To Index Feature Is For Critical Cases
In Google Webmaster Tools, there is an option to fetch and render as GoogleBot would crawl your pages. After the page has been fetched... - Google Testing 3D & Push-Like Arrows On AdSense Ads
Google seems to be testing yet a slightly different format for their arrows on their AdSense ad units. A WebmasterWorld thread has one user who posted a picture of an AdSense unit that had an arrow that looked slightly 3D or shadowed... - Google Tests New Mobile Loading Slide Outs & Loading Patterns
Ruben Gomez spotted yet another Google test, this one on the mobile interface... - Google Skybox Tickets To Pebble Beach 18th Fairway
Jonathan Rosenberg, Google's Vice President of Products, posted a picture on Google+ of him and Google Sales Erin Shanahan at the 18th fairway Google skybox. He said it was thank you to him and the t
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Google's "e-commerce update" of early February, 2015, WebmasterWorld
- How important is BOTW in rankings, localsearchforum.com
- Where has it all gone wrong? Are big brands over-represented on the SERPs?, WebmasterWorld
- Hangout on Air - Tracking your Business Goals, AdWords Community
