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:
- Moz Fires 28% Of Staff Including The Community Team To Realign With Search
Many of us have really good friends and colleagues at Moz. In fact, I've known Rand Fishkin since before there was a Moz/SEOMoz... - Google Trends Updates Design & Features Earlier This Month
Earlier this month both @johndefeo and @Honhaar posted on Twitter that Google Trends updated their design and features. Honestly, I barely use the tool, so I had to wait for Google to tell me what changed... - This Googlers Jokes About The HTTPS Ranking Signal
Roberto Bayardo, a research scientist at Google, who works specifically on computational advertising, joked on Google+ that his web site no longer ranks on the first page of Google for [bayardo]. He said shortly after that maybe he needs to go HTTPS to get the ranking boost... - Google Confirms They Are Rolling Out The New AdWords User Interface To Users
Last week we reported folks were seeing the new AdWords interface in the wild. Well it is not just a few advertisers seeing it, Google keeps on rolling it out to more and more advertisers. The shocker... - Google AdWords Enables Campaign Drafts & Experiments For Display Ads
In November 2015, Google beta tested what eventually went live in February known as campaign drafts and experiments for AdWords. It basically is a way to "propose and test changes to your Search Network and Search Network with Display Select campaigns... - Buddhists Draw Sand Mandala At Google Office
Natalie Gross posted a picture on Instagram of Buddhists spending a couple of days creating a sand mandala at the Google San Francisco office. She took the photo two days ago and you can see them har
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Strange ranks dropping after link building, BlackHatWorld
- SITE command shows links to HTTPS, WebmasterWorld
- Updated #Guide for Running @screamingfrog #SEO #Spider #Tool on @googlecloud https://t.co/rFuydXqEYu, Fili Wiese on Twitter
- Click Test Study on The Local Finder // How Users Decide Where to Click, localsearchforum.com
- Company Ranked all 3 spots on Google Maps, localsearchforum.com
- Pinterest Adds Video Advertising, WebmasterWorld
