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 Update October 14/15th: ZOMBIE Update Or Panda Rolling?
There have been plenty of signs of updates over October with the Google algorithm. The last time we reported these shifts were on October 8th but I am seeing shifts reported on October 14th and 15th as well as the past couple days, October 17th through today... - Google: Preferred Domain Setting Not Needed When Redirects Are In Place
Google Search Console has a featured where you can specify your preferred domain but you don't need it... - Google: Fetch As Google Partial Notice Can Be Ignored If You See Your Site
The Fetch as Google feature in the Google Search Console rocks, it shows you how GoogleBot sees your web site or app. It can visually give you a clue into crawling issues. - Better Business Bureau Nofollows Links To Businesses
The folks over at WebmasterWorld have noticed that the Better Business Bureau has nofollowed links to their verified and trusted businesses. I confirmed this by spot checking my BBB listing and the link to my company web site is indeed nofollowed... - Gary Illyes & Danny Sullivan At Disneyland
Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land and Gary Illyes of Google went to Disneyland yesterday. Danny shared a picture of them at the park, with William Sears, Senior Manager, Search Marketing at Disne
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- A sad time! Closing websites, WebmasterWorld
- New "Customer Match" in Adwords, WebmasterWorld
- Doodle 4 Google is officially open! If you know a budding artist in grades…, Google+ - Google
- Google Analytics - Segment Not Matching Blog, WebmasterWorld
- Googlebot or naughty bot?, WebmasterWorld
