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:
- PSA: Google Is Able To Figure Out Different Languages Without Hreflang
What if you really don't want to get into the hreflang game, maybe because it is considered one of the most complex aspects of SEO or maybe because you want Google to figure it out... - Google Does Not Use rel=me Microformats
Back in 2011, Google came out with authorship a way of Google understanding which content was written by which author, no matter what domain they posted their content on... - Google: Having Duplicate Meta Descriptions Doesn't Mean Your Site Is Broken
Google has a report in Google Search Console that shows you your duplicate meta descriptions... - Take Our Poll: Were You Able To Hurt A Web Sites Ranking With Spammy Links?
A WebmasterWorld thread started by old-timer SEO, goodROI, posted that as a side project, he took an old site of his that was not doing much and decided to see if he can poison it in Google with spammy links. He said after ten weeks of trying... - Thom Craver - The Search Community Honors You
This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series - feel free to nominate someone over here. Thom Craver lives with his family in Saratoga Springs, New York but since he works at CBS Interactive... - Fanny Blankers-Koen, The Flying Housewife, Gets A Google Doodle
Today on Google's home page is a special Google Doodle, logo, for Fanny Blankers-Koen. Fanny Blankers-Koen won four gold medals during the 1948 London Games, while being a mother of two and 30 years old... - Google NYC Manhole
Five years ago, we posted a picture of a manhole with the Google name printed on it from the GooglePlex, the Google Mountain View office in California. Well, here is a manhole from the New York City
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Facebook Q1 Revenue $11.97 Billion, up 50pct, WebmasterWorld
- New API Login Standards: WebAuthn and CTAP Published, WebmasterWorld
- robots.txt now deletes archive.org wayback machine, WebmasterWorld
- SEO for Google Image Search?, WebmasterWorld
