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's Link Report Now Much More Representative Of Your Links To Your Site
Yesterday, Google announced they have immensely improved the linkage data from Google Webmaster Tools "links to your site" export option for "download sample links... - Take That Back: Not Every Manual Action Must Be Acted On...
I'll be honest, I am still confused on this. The other day, I reported on how an ex-Googler who worked in the web spam team... - YouTube Player Updated With Cleaner Features
Keane from the YouTube team announced in a YouTube Help thread that the team there has updated the YouTube player to make it cleaner while also adding features... - Bing's New Sub Deep Links
@tecnonetblog posted a video of new Bing deep links (aka sitelinks). The new format has 6 main top level deep links and then has up to an additional six or so sub-deep links under some of the main deep links... - Google AdSense Live Chat Support
A year ago, Google began offering email support to AdSense publishers, which was a big deal. They have even tested phone support but that didn't work out. Now they are offering live chat support to some AdSense publishers between certain business hours... - Google To Launch New Top Navigation: White Top & Box Bar
This morning, Google is rolling out a new top bar navigation style worldwide. They have not yet announced it... - Twitter Cupcakes
How do Twitter employees celebrate the announcement that they are going public? First they tweet the news and then they eat cupcakes. Chris Messina posted a picture of Twitter cupcakes, probably not
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- The real power of authentic hangouts. and why I do it…, Yifat Cohen - Google+
- Videos not playing after pre-roll advertisments, YouTube Help
- Competition within a site, among homepage and subpage, WebmasterWorld
- Trying to find proper indexation ratio for large website after Panda hit, WebmasterWorld