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 Panda Turns Four Years Old Today
Can you believe it has been four years since the Google officially released their Panda algorithm update? Before that, Google was getting a tremendous amount of flack over the quality of their search results and then Panda touched down. Panda 1.0 was released on February 24, 2011 - four years ago today and it may have been the most significant quality algorithm Google has released to date, even more so than Penguin. - Google Search Now Warns Before You Visit Sites That Trigger Unwanted Downloads
Remember last week, many many sites noticed their site was labeled with this site may be hacked warnings in Google Search... - Google News Supports Sitemap Only Crawling
I personally learned a lot from the Google News Webmaster Hangout on Google+ from a couple weeks ago and I keep pulling out pieces of that knowledge for you guys. The next thing I learned was that if you wanted to... - Google My Business Categories Now Requires A Primary Category
Jade Wang from Google announced in the Google Business Help forums that Google My Business Locations now have the ability for businesses to set their primary business category... - Google AdSense Tests Arrows In Center Of Ads & White Patterned Design
Google seems to be tested two new ad styles for their AdSense ad units. One design places the enclosed arrow in a circle within the center of the ad unit and the other design uses a transparent white, with patterns through the background... - Google Maps Pegman Dresses Up As A Birthday Cake For 10 Year Birthday
Google Maps turned 10 years old recently and to celebrate they decided to dress up their Pegman, the little man you can use to show you street view imagery within Google Maps, as a birthday cake. Her
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Re: Adwords account robbed by Genpact, AdWords Community
- Beware of responsive AdSense ads, I switched back to 728x90, WebmasterWorld
- This is a first... Google Webmaster Tools recommending I update my WP plugin. Have you see this @rustybrick? http://t.co/RkgIsq8iQe, Jackson Lo on Twitter
- De-Indexing Of Free Directories - Update, Cre8asite Forums
- Introducing the Newest Member of Our Family, The YouTube Kids app, YouTube Help
