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: Sorry, We Meant Don't Ask For Links That Violate Our Guidelines
Yesterday we covered a statement where Google said you should not even ask for links. It was from the Portuguese Webmaster blog written by Diogo Botelho from the Google webmaster team. It said then "do not buy, sell... - Google: SEO Magic Is Learned Through Experiments
The other day, I wrote a story named Google: Get Your Hands Dirty To Learn where I quoted Gary Illyes from Google saying "getting your hands dirty can be an excellent learning experience... - Google's New Guidelines For Local Business Authorized Representatives
Google has issued new guidelines on the guidelines for representing your business on Google page, specifically around how SEM/SEO companies can represent their clients within Google My Business/Google Maps listings... - Google What People Are Saying Product Reviews
Google seems to have added a new feature to their product knowledge graph, not just showing ratings and store reviews, with pricing and product specifications but also sharing written reviews about the product... - Google Releases The Second Google News Publisher Newsletter
Google published their second Google News Publisher Newsletter last week and we covered the new image handling feature mentioned in the newsletter... - Huge Wall Scrabble Board At Google
Richard Gingras from Google stopped by the San Francisco office the other day and spotted this life size Scrabble board on one of the walls. He said, "Isn't that sweet?" He added
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- @zacpappis Zac if Yahoo!'s rendering GoogleAds http://t.co/Bxs88ucQJI, is then DDG syndicating G sponsored links? http://t.co/6YY5CJlMuS, Nevyana Karakasheva on Twitter
- @pedrodias @brysonmeunier to be honest i don't even know what are we talking about, I'm just in a boring meeting..., Gary Illyes on Twitter
- Deleting Google+ Pages You Don't Own, localsearchforum.com
- Facebook Updates How CPC is Measured: Excludes Likes, Shares and Comments, WebmasterWorld
- In October we're bringing together Google+ Top Contributors and passionate…, Google+ - Google Plus
- Site hit with penalty, how to transfer a domain without the penalty?, WebmasterWorld
- So Google Now Considering 1 yr Registered Domain as Spam?, WebmasterWorld
