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:
- Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: May 30, 2014
A lot of search news this week at the Search Engine Roundtable. Matt Cutts of Google gave us on the record what Panda 4.0 was. We saw significant drops with press release web sites after 4.0 hit. eBay may have been hit by a manual action and not Panda 4.0... - Press Release Sites See Huge Drop In Google Ranking After Panda 4.0
Yesterday I reported at Search Engine Land that Panda 4.0 may have hurt press release sites and showed SearchMetrics data for PRWeb, PR Newswire... - AJAX Hash Bang URLs No Longer Work In Fetch As Google Tool
This week, Google introduced the new fetch as Google tool that now supports rendering the page as well. The tool is actually very sweet in many ways, including visualizing what Google sees and showing you what Google cannot see... - Google's Matt Cutts: It's Silly To Think We Penalize Vivint Because It Competes With Nest
Pando wrote an article named After Google bought Nest, it removed one of the companyâs biggest competitors from search results showing how Vivint was removed from Google shortly after Google acquired Nest. Matt Cutts, Google's head of search spam called this "silly... - Google: Even Old But Active Manual Actions Will Show In Google Webmaster Tools
Google launched their manual action viewer back in August of 2013. The question was, would Google show manual actions dating back years before that... - Google's Remodeled Patio Area Time Lapse Pictures
Nathan Johns from Google snapped a bunch of pictures during the remodeling phase of the GooglePlex patio area. This is the center area between most of the Google central buildings where Googlers hang
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