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:
- Did Google Penalize A New Set Of Sape Link Scheme Web Sites?
There are a few Black Hat communities discussing and complaining about ranking drops for some of their web sites over the past 24 hours. The public one is at Black Hat World and it shares that the ranking drops at Google started last night... - After Months Of Warnings; Google Kills Their AJAX Crawling Scheme
Last night, Google announced they are deprecating their AJAX crawling proposal from2009. This does NOT mean they won't crawl your AJAX web pages - Google Knowledge Graph Now Have Sport Team Rosters
I think this is a new feature with the Google Knowledge Graph. Spotted via Dr. Pete Meyers of Moz on Twitter - you can now find sport team rosters for baseball, basketball, soccer, hockey, etc when searching for a team name... - Google: Duplicate Content Issues & Panda Issues Are Two Different Things
Sites impacted by Google's Panda algorithm have content issues - low quality content issues. But can those be related to having duplicate content... - Over 1,000 Keywords Now In Google Search Analytics Report? For Some.
A month ago, we reported that you get a max of 999 keywords listed in your Search Analytics report within the Google Search Console. Well, some webmasters are seeing more than 999 keywords... - Google Halloween Stabbing GIF
Seems like some Googlers are getting excited about the upcoming holiday of Halloween. Moritz Tolxdorff from Google posted a GIF from previous work days at Google on Halloween. This is of someone dres
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Drive App Installs with Universal App Campaigns Learn about Universal App…, Google+ - Google Ads
- Google Local GMB Update Causing Major Confusion Especially for Consultants, localsearchforum.com
- Here's a great summary of Googlebot - what it is, what it likes, and how you…, Google+ - John Mueller
- Adsense and HTTPS, WebmasterWorld
- Over the past year the number of HTTPS navigations in Chrome has grown by ~5%,…, Google+ - Ilya Grigorik
- Sometimes autogenerated content can be pretty awesome & hilarious :). Let's not…, Google+ - John Mueller
