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:
- Closed For Yom Kippur 5777
Tomorrow is Yom Kippur, you can read about it on Wikipedia. In short, it is one, if not, the holiest days of the year for the Jewish people. I won't be scheduling any posts here for tomorrow, so the site will be virtually closed... - Google: International & Multilingual Links Are Not Seen As Spammy
Often I see webmaster basically disavow links simply because they are from a site that is written in a different language... - Google: Penguin Looks At The Page Where Your Links Come From (Link Source)
Another story I wrote at SEL based on the interview I did with Gary Illyes of Google was that Google Penguin is mostly a link spam algorithm and it works by mostly linking at the source of the link... - Google Algorithms Labels Links As Penguin, Footer, Disavowed & More - Googlers Can Look Up Link Labels
Yesterday, I covered at Search Engine Land an interview I did with Gary Illyes last week where Gary Illyes from Google told us Google has link labels. Link labels are basically various attributes or characteristics added to a site's link profile... - Google: Penguin Doesn't Use Machine Learning Within The Algorithm
When Google launched Penguin 4.0 some folks speculated that it was using some sort of machine learning (or RankBrain) to get better by itself... - Want To Stop Your Google AdWords Campaigns? Deleting Your Google Account Won't Help.
This is something I never thought of before - what if you have a Google AdWords campaign running with your Google account and you delete your Google account - what happens to the campaign... - Dead Sea SEO Mud
Okay, you got to really be into SEO to go to Israel's Dead Sea and put all that Dead Sea mud on your body by have a friend carve out the letters SEO on your back. That is what Renata Moshkovich did a
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- That's literally the only algorithm we have now, yea, Gary Illyes on Twitter
- Sigh! @google thinks my social buttons are a featured snippet. Might explain bizarre, low quality organic traffic? @methode @johnmu #SEO https://t.co/HQaBTfGVto, David Mercer on Twitter
- Blank Ad Units, WebmasterWorld
- Blocking the IP of a Bot that is hogging resources, WebmasterWorld
- Google Human Editors - Common Misunderstandings, WebmasterWorld
