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 Web Search Ranking Fluctuations In Mid-September?
I can't ignore the WebmasterWorld thread that has been a bit heavier in webmaster chatter over the past several days, most noticeably over the weekend. The chatter levels do not signal to me a huge update... - Google Analytics Now Defaults Day View To Hourly Graph
Google Analytics has made a subtle change to their graphing last night. When you view your Google Analytics data but limit the date range to show just one day... - Google May Have Changed How PageRank Flows With Nofollow Links
Back in 2009, Matt Cutts from Google wrote on PageRank sculpting saying: So what happens when you have a page with ten PageRank points and ten outgoing links... - Google Hotel Finder Home Page No Longer Exists
Google has quietly killed off the home page for the Google Hotel Finder, now when you try to access it... - Dogs As Google Nooglers
Google shared a picture on the Google Students Google+ page of a dog, near the Android Noogler statue, wearing an Android hat. Maybe this is a Noogler (a new Googler) dog? Google wrote - Closed Tomorrow For Yom Kippur 5776
Tomorrow is Yom Kippur, you can read about it on Wikipedia. I won't be scheduling any posts here for tomorrow, so the site will be virtually closed. Although, I have scheduled an embargoed story on Search Engine Land for tomorrow...
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Apple Removes Apps Infected With Malicious Code, WebmasterWorld
- Call for Proposals: Faculty Research Awards in VR Google’s Faculty Research…, Google+ - Google Cardboard
- Not good enough for Google but works for Bing, WebmasterWorld
- Clean Up Yahoo Local Mess, localsearchforum.com
- Fast is always better than slow, Google+ - Zineb Ait Bahajji
- Moving Business - Best Practices, localsearchforum.com
- Round 2: next presentation will be at #smx east. If you want to learn about something specific around mobile, mention me with your question, Gary Illyes on Twitter