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: We Penalizes Egregious Link Manipulation; Otherwise Ignores The Link
As you know, Google treats links from spammy sites vs unnatural links differently. But Google also treats different types of unnatural links differently as well. Unnatural links ... - Google: Less Crawl Rate Isn't Necessarily A Bad Thing
Google's John Mueller said in the pas that crawl frequency and ranking higher are not directly related and you can rank high without a high crawl frequency... - Google Local Panels Now Rolling Out Tab User Interface?
Last month we reported that Google was testing a tab user interface to toggle between a local panel's overview and reviews. Well, it seems like this new user interface is rolling out. Google has not confirmed it yet... - Google: No Spring Cleaning On The Search Index
John Mueller from Google said at the 14:08 mark in the webmaster hangout video from Friday that Google doesn't perform "Spring Cleaning" on their search index. He said "it's not that we have Spring Cleaning in our index... - Bing PPC Soccer Cup In Sweden
Bing held a soccer match, they call a PPC cup, in Sweden the other day. You can see the players wearing different color soccer jerseys with the Bing logo on it. Bing wrote "#ScoreWithBing Sweden has
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- 512banque @JohnMu @dan_shure Toolbar PageRank is dead. We still use PageRank internally. I'm sure @rustybrick covered this to death", Gary Illyes on Twitter
- Turns out we have algorithms to debug our algorithms' algorithms that may interact with your algorithms, or even algorithms' algorithms https://t.co/1GXRO1DEwN, Gary Illyes on Twitter
- Google adds shopping tab in more prominent positions, WebmasterWorld
- @scottjzimmerman @methode I'd just focus on the quality of the final page & not worry about the redirects. Make the result fantastic!, John Mueller on Twitter
- @thomasharvey_me @methode Time to brush up on your French :). Sitelinks can be multiple languages too, and we (=websearch) wouldn't manually tweak it for our sites., John Mueller on Twitter
- And the answer to our nautical mystery challenges. Sometimes, you really can'..., Google+ - Dan Russell
- Guide customers to your neck of the woods. Sign up for a free workshop to vie..., Google+ - Google Business
- NEW! We've just updated the global market share numbers of #BingAds for you: https://t.co/YoenX4DADr #PPC https://t.co/kQqc9QQcnN, Bing Ads on Twitter
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