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: You Can Get Unnatural Links From Good Sites & Natural Links From Spammy Sites
Yesterday we reported that there is a difference between links from spammy sites and unnatural links. So it got a lot of people thinking about that, whereas many SEOs try to remove links that are on spammy sites - not all of those links are unnatural... - Google Crawls 404s After Other Pages So No Crawl Budget Is Sacrificed
Everyone knows, Google from time to time will try crawling 404s - it is normal and expected. But does that impact your crawl budget... - Google Maps Ads Are Popping Up Now?
Joy Hawkins, one of the niche local SEOs in our field, posted on Twitter that she saw on Google Maps that Google automatically popped up an ad on the map for a local result... - Google Now Helps You Find Events
Google has added a new search feature to their mobile user interface to find events both locally and by type and by date. For example, if I search for [seo events] on mobile, I get a listing of upcoming SEO events... - Bing Ads To Stop Supporting Creation Of Standard Text Ads On July 31st
Bing announced that starting July 31st, 2017 they will stop supporting the creation of new and editing of existing standard text ads. Advertisers will only... - Google Logo Reflecting Off Water
I think this is a photo of outside of one of the Google London offices, where you see the white Google logo on the building reflecting off of a pond or pocket of water outside of the office. This phot
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- @thomasharvey_me @methode @DevSEOChat Lots of sites use CDNs & rank well. Go for it!, John Mueller on Twitter
- Facebook Changes Algo to Cut Back on Low Quality Content and Ads, WebmasterWorld
- Try our new e-learning: Get started with AdWords for mobile Learn how AdWord..., Google+ - Google Ads
- You might have seen sites that use left/right swipe to navigate / paginate -- does anyone have some examples that they like/dislike? Thanks!, John Mueller on Twitter
