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:
- Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Image & Phantom Update, AdWords Ad Label & Maile Ohye
This week in search, Google confirmed that a user interface change for Google Images may make it feel that you lost Google traffic in Germany and France... - No, Google Didn't Remove NaturalNews.com Because Of Fake News
People asking me on Twitter about why NaturalNews.com was deindexed by Google. People are saying it was because of "fake news" but that is not the case. - Google: Don't Guest Blog For Links, Use Your Own Site
In 2014, Google declared guest blogging for links dead and has penalized guest blog networks time after time since then. So when someone asked Google's John Mueller on Twitter if using a guest blogging platform was a good idea and safe... - Google Reminder: Linking To High Authority Web Sites Do Not Help With SEO
Google has said for years that linking out has no impact on your rankings and SEO. So here is a reminder... - Gboard Adds Voice Typing - A Huge Missing Feature
When Gboard, Google's iOS keyboard, launched, I was really excited and switched to it. Overall the keyboard is way better than the built in iOS keyboard. But it was missing one big feature, voice typing. So sometimes... - Google Account Bug Breaks Sign Ins, Google Wifi & Other Services
Yesterday, something bad happened with the Google Accounts system. It isn't clear exactly what went wrong but tons of people had unexpected sign out issues and then were unable to sign back into Google... - Google Building Blocks
I spotted this on Instagram, a bunch of blocks in Google's logo colors with the old Google logo on some of them. It was posted by Iulian Vasillisca with no context. It is hard to tell if these are l
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- A Marketer's Guide to Google Analytics Dashboards "... that dashboard pictur..., Google+ - Google Analytics
- com.google.GoogleMobile, WebmasterWorld
- Facebook Tests Ads in Publisher Videos, WebmasterWorld
- SHA-1 Defeated, WebmasterWorld
- Congrats to the #Doodle4Google state and territory finalists! Vote for your f..., Google+ - Google
- Google "Perspective" Machine Learning To Hide Toxic Comments, WebmasterWorld