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:
- Yandex Slaps Link Sellers
As I reported at Search Engine Land last week, Yandex has penalized link sellers in their latest effort to fight efforts by link spammers to manipulate their search results... - Google: Internal Article Links To Your E-Commerce Products Is Not Over Optimization
The concern over linking has not died down at all in recent months. A recent question submitted to Google's John Mueller over a Google+ Hangout asked about linking... - Google's Crawler Only Submit Forms When It Can't Find Your Content
Google's spider, GoogleBot, has really been getting clever over the years. Crawling JavaScript, accessing image data, finding links to consume in places you ... - Thumbtack Risking A New Google Link Penalty?
Back in June, Google seemed to have penalized Thumbtack for links and then quickly reversed the penalty days later. I now hear that Thumbtack may... - SEO 4 You License Plate
We have covered many license plates in the past, many on SEO topics, even Panda. But here is a new one. An SEO 4 You plate spotted by @ProfoundryCo and posted...