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: SEO Over Optimization Can Eventually Hurt Your Rankings
SEOs for almost a decade have been using the term "over optimization" for one reason why a site might start to not do well in the Google search results. Some call it the over optimization penalty. Well... - Google: No Index Is A Directive, It Doesn't Control Crawling
There are many ways to control how Google crawls your web site but one of them is not the noindex tag. Google will still crawl your web site and web pages with the noindex tag on them. It needs to, in order to know what not to index. You can use robots... - Google's New AdWords Interface To Launch To All By End Of Year
Google announced they will be launching the new AdWords interface by the end of the year to all advertisers. In March of 2016... - Google Tests Clickable Hotel Prices In Map View
Google is now testing displaying hotel price labels directly in the map view for your local searches on mobile. This was first spotted by our man Sergey Alakov who shared it on Twitter. Normally, the map just shows icons and pins of where the hotels are located... - Google Tests New People Also Search For Carousel Interface
Google's people also search for feature is testing a new design on mobile. It looks like a carousel above the top stories AMP carousel. Mitchell Haw from Ignite Visibility shared a screen shot with me on @johnelincoln Twitter account... - Google Elephant March Pattern Wallpaper
Here is an interesting photo I found on Instagram of a wallpaper at the Google London office. There is this elephant march wallpaper pattern on the walls in one of the rooms. It was posted by patter
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- @rustybrick Cool! Check source for https://t.co/bbOsAVDtWN could be an embed of their new features there. Or I guess just new GA. Long overdue! :), Zach Edwards on Twitter
- Google Ad Hub (beta) Connects User Spending With Ads on its System, WebmasterWorld
- It just got easier to understand & serve customers: Google Optimize & Surveys 360 now integrating with AdWords. https://t.co/6PlD7xe6Zu https://t.co/dWBeSg9dgu, Google AdWords on Twitter
- Recovering From Google Mobile Pop-up Penalty - Jan 2017, Google Webmaster Help
- Tracking Forms Effectively in Google Analytics #measure #analytics "Form ana..., Google+ - Google Analytics
- What's new with Google+ Hey there Plussers! I'm your friendly neighborhood G..., Google+ - Leo Deegan
