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 Spammy Vs Unnatural Links, 404s With Crawl Budget & More SEO & PPC
I apologize if it doesn't seem smooth, I was testing a beta version of the camera software. This week in search... - Google: Geotargeting Promotes But Hreflang Does Not Promote A Site/Page
Google's John Mueller answered a geotargeting and hreflang question in the Google Webmaster Help forums... - Google: Not Trying 404 Pages Isn't A Sign Of Crawl Issues
The other day I reported that Google Crawls 404s After Other Pages So No Crawl Budget Is Sacrificed... - Google Merchant Center Bug: Unexpected Image Processing Errors
For the past few days, Google Merchant Center has been plagued with a bug named unexpected image processing error. This started back on May 9th and is still an issue a few days later... - Google AdSense Reissue Check Issue Larger Bug
Rachel from the Google AdSense team posted an update in the Google AdSense Help thread less than an hour ago that using the reissue check feature in Google may be having issues... - YouTube & Google Bike To Work Day
Yesterday was bike to work day and there are tons of photos of Googlers biking to work. He is one that works at YouTube standing in front of a YouTube sign and a balloon bike, amongst other balloons.
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- @balibones @miguelpau @davidwkelley @googlewmc Fred knows when you plan on deleting a page and will react accordingly. Or maybe we just see the 404 a few times. The later is easier. :), John Mueller on Twitter
- @johnmu @methode Any chance that keywords in a slider hidden by display:none could be harmful? i.e. seen as hidden text?, Marie Haynes on Twitter
- If you're doing SEO, read these over the weekend: https://t.co/uoCmZVFI2T https://t.co/bMPdiugiqQ (not on your phone though), Gary Illyes on Twitter
- Opera is Reborn, WebmasterWorld
