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:
- Report: Google Severely Hits PBNs (Private Blog Networks)
The black hat and gray SEO communities are buzzing about Google's latest efforts to target PBNs, Private Blog Networks. Over the past couple days, Google has reportedly went after many PBNs that are being used to manipulate their rankings... - Google Structured Snippets: Why Bother Clicking On The Results?
Yesterday, Google announced a feature they've been testing for a few weeks, Structured Snippets. Structured Snippets is a form of knowledge graph that incorporates facts into individual result snippets in Web search results. It looks like this: - Submit Your Google App Indexing Questions
Google has been trying to heavily promote App Indexing, we covered it here several times, it is basically a way for you to tell Google about content within an app and have it potentially be indexed and rank in Google's search results... - Google AdWords Merging Mobile Click Call Data
Google quietly announced on Google+ that they are combing/merging two different metrics into one metric on the mobile click front in order to appease the "feedback from hundreds of advertisers... - First Day Of Autumn From The Search Industry
Today is the first day of Autumn for many folks and to mark the day both Google and Bing have special things going on... - Google On Today Show With Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg & Alan Eagle
Google's Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg & Alan Eagle were on the Today Show the other day promoting their book How Google Works. SVP of Products at Google, Jonathan Rosenberg, posted this picture of
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Google Market Share August 2014: 67% On PC, 83% In Mobile via +Greg Sterling…, Google+ - Glenn Gabe
- Google Withdraws From ALEC, Says Link With Climate Skeptics Wrong, WebmasterWorld
- Request for writing the google Adwords Exam, WebmasterWorld
