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:
- Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: February 20, 2015
This week in search, I cover how Google said you should avoid doing any link building. Some SEOs are waiting patiently... - GoogleBot Crawling Too Hard & Much? Report The Issue To Google.
Normally, Google's crawlers named GoogleBot, is pretty well behaved. It normally is pretty good at making sure it doesn't harm your site by crawling too fast or too much. - Google Adds Carousel Results Within The Snippet Level & Suggests Using Articles Rich Snippets
Google announced they are adding carousel based search results at the snippet level. So if you search for something and Google feels more content from that source is warranted, instead of showing more search results listed below... - Google Tests Displaying Line Separators Between Organic Results?
Nicole Hess caught Google testing using a line separator in the search results between organic results. She posted a screen shot on Twitter and it does look legit... - Google May Have Mistakenly Marked Your Site As Hacked: Here Is How To Fix It
Yesterday I reported on how dozens and dozens of webmasters noticed Google labeled their sites with the this site may be hacked label in the search results. It seems way too unusual for so many new webmasters to be complaining about it... - Hanging Things From Google Ceiling
Richard Hay posted a picture on Google+ of a lot of lights and objects hanging from a ceiling at Google. He even said "The hanging chair," where Google hangs chairs from the ceiling as well. Intere
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Google Maps Getting Started 2007, Google Maps - Google+
- Hacked Sites Case Studies, Google Webmasters - Google+
- Ranking #1 in the Google Local 7 Pack - Even Though Organic Penalty, localsearchforum.com
- Hangout on Air - Tracking your Business Goals Part, AdWords Community