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: Wikipedia Is Really Good At Getting Links To Internal Pages
Stemming off my story named Google: We Don't Have "Overall Domain Authority" In Our Rankings - Alan Bleiweiss said "if an overall authority didn't exist... - Google Still Figuring Out Issues With The New Mobile Index
As you know, Google said the mobile index should be out within months. This mobile index will act as Google's primary index, and Google will crawl the web from a desktop view as a secondary to the mobile view. But Google is still hard at work at it... - Google: It's Safe To Remove Links From Disavow When The Links Are Removed
Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that it is safe to remove links from you disavow file "if you've cleaned up the links & they've been reprocessed." So first step, make sure the links no longer are there or you are blocking them in some way... - Google Analytics Missing Traffic Bug For Some Webmasters?
Late last week, I saw some webmasters begin to complain about missing traffic data in Google Analytics. There is a more comprehensive thread in the Google AdWords Help forums and on Twitter... - Bing, Dogpile & Other Halloween Search Home Pages
While Google came out with their Halloween Doodle early and it really is an awesome and addictive game to play - Bing and Dogpile also have themes out as of last night. Bing's home page is really spooky and fun. It has tons of tricks and some treats (leading to queries)... - Google Sydney Scary Halloween Lobby
Morgane Borzee posted an image on Instagram of the lobby at the Google Sydney office all creeped out for Halloween. It is pretty scary makeover for the lobby there. Truth is, it might be an old pictu - Google Halloween Game Doodle Goes Live Early
Google has launched their Halloween Doodle, aka Google logo...
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- [AdWords Express Social] Start today and save $100 with AdWords Express, The Google Advertiser Community
- DDoS Attack Brings Down Sites, Including Twitter, Github, Reddit, WebmasterWorld
- Policy warning violations are no fun. Here's what you can do if you've receiv..., Google+ - AdSense
- Undo 301 redirects, WebmasterWorld