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 Search App Error: No App Found To Open URL
Apps in search are a big deal and becoming a bigger deal every single day, both with Google, but also with Bing and even Apple... - Google: If We Email You, Login To Your Google My Business Or It May Be Removed
In June, Google began warning business owners that they need to login and verify their business listings within the Google My Business account. If they did not, they run the risk of having their business listing removed from Google Maps. Well, now Google is warning businesses again... - Google: We Only Discover Links On Pages With 200 Status Codes
The other day, we explained that even links on soft 404 pages are not followed by Google. We knew this was the case with hard 404s but we were not confident about that with soft 404 pages. - Google Maps Views Now Goes Offline
This should not come as a surprise, since Google told us this was coming back a few months ago, but now it is here. Google Maps Business Views and Google Views is now officially offline. It will be coming back in a new form, but it is now gone... - Google Talks About The Robots.txt Directive For One Whole Hour
You'd think the robots.txt directive it pretty cut and dry. It hasn't changed much in the past several years... - Google Wind Spinners For Nooglers
When a new employee starts at Google, they make sure to welcome the Noogler (new Googler) with wind spinners, balloons and other festive things. Here is a picture of the Welcome Noogler wind spinner
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Google for Work domain admins: Analytics Add-on for Sheets is available! …, Google+ - Google Analytics
- [This Friday] Google News Lab Office Hours ft. Google News, Google News Help
- How to generate traffic for a single static webpage?, WebmasterWorld
