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:
- Get A Text Link From Apache.org For $5k Per Year, Google Did For $100k Per Year
A Google Webmaster Help thread has someone pointing out that Apache, world's most used web server software, has a thank you page where they have do-follow links for sale... - Google Displays More Images In Mobile Web Results
A few weeks ago we reported that Google was showing many shopping images in the mobile web results. I personally was able to see them, but it is not just shopping... - Google AdWords Changes Display URL Unicode Characters Support
Google AdWords announced quietly on Google+ that they are now changing the way how they handle displaying unicode characters in the display URLs. Google said display URLs in Unicode characters will show as Unicode characters regardless of the user's Google language preference... - Google AdSense New Ad Unit Design Launches With Modern Look
Google announced on Google+ that they've launched a new ad unit design for their AdSense text and link unit ads. They said the new look is modern and "introduces a minimalist design that brings the focus back on the text content... - Google AdWords Editor v11.6 Adds Universal App Campaigns & More
Google announced the latest version of the AdWords Editor, version 11.6. The big updates here include device bid adjustments, two Gmail ad templates, universal app campaigns, scheduled downloads... - Donuts On A Google Board
Alexandra Nickolova shared a photo of the Google European head office in Dublin where they had a black board set up with sticks coming out of it. Hanging on those sticks appear to be donuts. Well, at
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- A puzzle from my youth, that I finally figured out decades later. Who made th..., Google+ - Dan Russell
- Facebook Launches Marketplace: Buying and Selling in Local Communities, WebmasterWorld
- Sudden Steep Drop + Strange Happenings, localsearchforum.com
- Twitter Board Disagreement Over Possible Sale, WebmasterWorld
- Drop in Adsense CTR, WebmasterWorld
- If you're creating AMPs, this is an awesome testing setup! https://t.co/sRNZ18gKSi, John Mueller on Twitter
