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 Penalizes, SEO, AdWords Editor & More
This week in search we posted our monthly Google webmaster report. I covered the Google web spam report which showed Google issued about 500 manual actions per hour last year. Google penalized a lot of big airline sites for showing product rich snippets in a spammy way... - Google's Gary Illyes: I'm Angry News Sites Don't Link Out, It's Stupid
The folks at Stone Temple Consulting did another really nice interview with Google's Gary Illyes and asked him some interesting questions... - Google: Most Algorithm Updates Go Unnoticed
Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter that most algorithm updates done by Google go "unnoticed." I am not sure I agree, with that... - Google: Fewer Higher Quality Pages Leads To Higher Quality Traffic From Google
During the Stone Temple Consulting Q&A with Gary Illyes last night on YouTube, Eric Enge told Gary that when he removed a ton of low quality pages from a client's site, their traffic didn't change much, there indexed pages did drop... - Google Honors Sigmund Freud On His 160th Birthday With Relevant Doodle
Today on Google.com is a special Google Doodle, a Google logo... - Google My Business API Version 3.0 Is Out With New Features
Google has quietly released (or hasn't announced the release yet) of the new version of the Google My Business API. The new version is version 3.0 and comes several months after launching the last one in December 2015... - Google Wine Club
Revelry Vintners posted a picture on Twitter of them being invited to Google for the May Wine club tasting and pouring. They wrote on Twitter "#Google knows how to #CincoDeMayo! We were thrilled to be
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Should I Link to a Page that Links to Me?, WebmasterWorld
- Search location drastically affects local rankings, localsearchforum.com
- 82% of smartphone users consult their phone in store Learn new ways to connect…, Google+ - Google Ads
- Set up Analytics to measure content performance In this article you will learn…, Google+ - Daniel Waisberg
- Remarketing Lists for Search Ads, The Google Advertiser Community
