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:
- HTTPS Migration For Google News Publishers Going Smoothly
On August 12th, I migrated this site, which is not a small site, from HTTP to HTTPS and honestly, the migration has not been bad at all... - Google: You Don't Rank Well Because GoogleBot Is Not Impressed
I am sure you have seen it at least a 100 times, a person complaining their site doesn't rank well in Google... - Report: Google Sitelinks Searchbox Taking Queries To Publisher Sites
A couple weeks ago, Google announced changes to the search within search box in the Google search results. One of those changes was the ability to direct the query done on Google, directly to the publishers site by adding some schema. Now... - Google+ Dropping From Google's Knowledge Graph Box
Mark Traphagen posted on Google+ that Google started dropping a lot of the Google+ elements you'd find in the Google Knowledge Box on the right hand side of the page... - Google New York's Darth Vader Painting
Gary Illyes is in New York this week, normally he spends his time in Zurich, Switzerland, and he has been taking photos of the NYC Google office. Here is a picture of a portrait of Darth Vader in one
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Is John Mu wrong? Redirection removing penalty, Google Webmaster Help
- Need Help Poisoning Rankings, Negative SEO, WebmasterWorld
- Add your favorite places to the map!, Google Maps Help
- iOS shutterbugs - this one’s for you Now when you snap photos through Glass,…, Google+ - Google Glass
- Learn more about using AdWords to promote your apps If you’ve developed a…, Google+ - Google Ads
- Thanks I still remember the first time I went to Libertyville, Illinois to…, Google+ - Punit Soni
- Are SERPs A Popularity Contest ?, WebmasterWorld
- Google is guessing, I guess, WebmasterWorld
- How can you tell if your ads are successful?, AdWords Community