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 Local Pack Ad Seen For The First Time
Since June, we've been waiting to see the first in the wild example of a Google Local pack ad. Well, Ryan Scollon posted on on Twitter (hat tip @JoyanneHawkins... - Google: Links From Adult Sites Are Not Spammy Or Problematic
John Mueller from Google said on Twitter that links from adult or pornographic sites are not automatically considered spam by Google. In fact, he said they are not always even problematic for your site's rankings... - Google Search Analytics Data Bug Extended: July 29th - August 5th
On August 1st, we reported there was a bug with the Google Search Console data in the Search Analytics report. In short, Search Analytics would mislabel the mobile and tablet search traffic as being desktop traffic between the dates of July 29th and August 1st... - Google: 300 Redirect Passes PageRank But 301s Help With Canonicalization
A couple weeks ago we reported that Google said that all flavors of 30x redirects pass PageRank fully, there is no dilution he said. So of course, there was some debate on that but it seems like the way Gary Illyes put it... - Google My Business Updates User Interface For Editing Business Details
Google My Business, the place businesses can go to update their business details as they are listed on Google Maps and Google Local, has been updated... - Google Pride Boat
Owen Williams posted a photo of the Google Pride boat floating down in the Netherlands. It looks like some water based gay pride parade. Check out the lips on that boat. And year, that is a serious f
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Olá #Gboard! Introducing new languages (French, German, Italian, Portuguese and…, Google+ - Google
- July Education Rundown, The Google Advertiser Community
- The extended 60 second version of the Google Photos "Free Up Space" ad just…, Google+ - Bradley Horowitz
- Visible PBNs being indexed by Majestic, BlackHatWorld
