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: Blocking US Users, Means Blocking GoogleBot
GoogleBot typically crawls from the United States, not 100% of the time. In fact, Google recently began crawling on a limited basis from other countries but only to check on local-aware features... - Google Doesn't Filter Gold Stars Reviews From Specific Industries
Joy Hawkins asked in a Local Search Forum thread if Google will filter the gold stars shown in the organic search results for local results for specific industries... - Bing News PubHub For News Submissions
Bing announced you can now submit your news site, like this one, to Bing News at the new Bing News PubHub. When you go to Bing News PubHub, you can fill out the form as I screen shot below, to submit your news site to Bing... - Google News AMP Referral Source To Get Proper Attribution?
Valentin Pletzer, a Senior Search Analyst at BurdaForward in Germany, asked a nice question in the Google Webmaster Help forums about AMP and Google News. In short... - Bing Ads Will Support Google AdWords Expanded Text Ads
Bing Ads announced that in response to Google AdWords expanded text ads and Bing Ads being able to import Google AdWords campaigns... - Google's Scary Looking Sticky Buns
Julie Parent from Google shared a photo on Twitter of sticky buns at the Google Los Angeles office. She said "Yup, this office is ok" implying these looks yummy to eat. But at first glance, maybe be
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- How Does Google Not See This? It's Obvious SPAM In the Worst Way, localsearchforum.com
- Court Rules Class Action Can Proceed Against Google Over AdWords, WebmasterWorld
- Faster is better. 80% of publishers are seeing greater viewability rates for…, Google+ - AdSense
- My 91yr Grandpa Meets Google The best video I've seen in years! Thanks…, Google+ - Jack Fermon
- Celebrating My Account's 1st birthday with two new..., The Google Advertiser Community
- Hiring a pro SEO company - how to choose ?, WebmasterWorld
- Satisfying your curiosity is a great thing... especially when you follow-up and…, Google+ - Dan Russell
- What kind of black hat method is this?, BlackHatWorld
