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 Tells Newspapers, Like NY Times, WSJ & Others, To Noindex News Feeds
Google's John Mueller said on Twitter this morning that those sites republishing news feeds should "consider noindexing them." The full tweet was specifically in response to what to do with content published on your site from an Associated Press or Reuters news feeds... - GoogleBot Doesn't Understand The Words In Your Podcast Audio Files
Recently, Google added support for rich results for podcasts but that doesn't mean Google can understand what you are saying in those audio files... - Google: Organic & Paid Search Policies Don't Always Match
As you know, there are two massive arms at Google - the organic search team and the paid search team. Organic and paid often have strict rules... - Google: Links From High Search Traffic Pages Aren't More Valuable
Google's John Mueller responded on Twitter that links from a page that gets a lot of traffic via Google is not any more valuable than links from a page that gets not as much traffic from Google. By definition, page traffic isn't PageRank or other link signals... - Google's John Mueller On Fred: Not Aware Of Any Such Update?
As you know, many were hit by the Google Fred update that touched down around March 7th/8th - we even got Google to confirm the update which is rare... - A Google Fred Mug
Jackson Powell shared a photo of his new coffee mug with Gary Illyes of Google. The mug has a picture or silhouette of a fish on it with the name Fred on top of the fish. Jackson shared the photo on
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- LinkedIn Passes 500 Million Users, WebmasterWorld
- Can a single backlink affect an entire website?, WebmasterWorld
- Facebook Testing Star Ratings in Ads, Local Search Forum
- How do you find links to boost Google rankings?, WebmasterWorld
- New Today: Join Waymo's Early Rider Program Starting today, you can sign up ..., Google+ - Louis Gray
- OMG! Google's chrome marked #Bing as Dangerous #GoogleChrome @bing @googlechrome , Bing's image search as a listing page in SERP's #Google https://t.co/LcMIgcIVSp, Soni Sharma on Twitter
- THIS!!! Hats off, sir! "I do not expect you to answer me via e-mail - as it is unfair to other SEOs [...]", Gary Illyes on Twitter
