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:
- What's App Uses Globe Unicode In URL Structure & Google Ranks It
Gerk Mulder shared an interesting screen shot on Twitter of Google indexing, ranking and displaying in the search results snippet a globe unicode URL. It looks like this... - Google Testing Removing Reviews From Local Map Results?
Typically when you do a search that brings up local results in the web search results, the local box or whatever Google is calling it these days - you see 3 listings now and if those listings have reviews... - New: Google AdWords OEM Automotive Ads
Google announced a new search ads, AdWords, format for automative ads for OEMs such as Toyota, Honda, etc. Now, if the OEM is buying ads, they have the option to have a richer experience with their ads. The ads come up for searches around their brand name, models, dealers... - Watch Google's Top Ranking Engineer, Paul Haahr, Talk On How Google Works
I am not sure if you remember but at SMX West, we covered tons of tidbits coming out of a talk Google's Paul Haahr gave named How Google Works. Well... - Google Butterfly
Daniel Waisberg from Google posted a picture of a paper made Google butterfly on Google+. He found the butterfly in the Google office in the United Kingdom. He wrote on Google+, Just found a butterfl
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- My Faith In The Organic Serps Is Strengthened, Cre8asite Forums
- Do display ads seem intimidating? We break it down in Primer:…, Google+ - Google Ads
- In your opinion, what's the biggest thing holding back OSE / Mozscape? (Something not in the poll? Let me know!), Rand Fishkin on Twitter
- Introducing flexible auto-tagging override for GA-AdWords linking…, Google+ - Google Analytics
- Mobile has changed the way we consume online content. @YouTube shared a few…, Google+ - AdSense
- Go behind the scenes in the recording studio with Nat & Lo as they learn about…, Google+ - Google
- How SEO Best Practices Became Irrelevant, WebmasterWorld
- Microsoft plans to build ad blocker into its Microsoft Edge browser, WebmasterWorld
