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:
- Company Name With An Incorrect Space In Google?
I have a company name that people often spell with an incorrect space because it is two different words, that we put together as one. My company name is RustyBrick, one word, but capital R and B. People often break it up, or lowercase the B and it is one of my pet peeves... - Looking To Get Out Of The SEO Business In 2018?
There is an interesting thread just getting its legs in the WebmasterWorld forums around the topic of SEO and how hard it is to do SEO these days and see results... - Google: GoogleBot Crawls From The US But Can Crawl Locally In Your Region
This is just one of those reminders that Google's spider, GoogleBot, mostly crawls from the U.S., Mountain View... - Google: Disavowing Nofollowed Links Does No Harm
Technically, Google does not follow or pass any signals from a link on a page that has a nofollow attribute on them. If you are super paranoid about that link ever dropping the nofollow... - 2017 Google Local Ranking Factors SEO Study
Andrew Shotland has published his 2017 local SEO ranking factors study the other day. Andrew said "the data suggests that Google, while attempting to shift to more engagement-based and locally relevant factors for its Local algorithm... - Googlers In Traditional Polish Dress
Here is a photo I found on Instagram, actually there were a few, where Googlers from the EU office were dressed in traditional Polish dress. I guess there was some event on this past Friday and some o
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- @iftiseo @googleanalytics We don't use Analytics in search. It's a great way to track your site's usage, but there are many other tools you can use too., John Mueller on Twitter
- @SEO_Suedwest @climaxboxagency Not required means you don't need them. We do use words in URLs, but it's minimal & most sites do fine., John Mueller on Twitter
- Googlebot VERY Active - Good News?, WebmasterWorld
- I guess this doesn't always need to be about SEO. http://www.poorlydrawnlin..., Google+ - John Mueller
- More than 1/7th of users have experienced account hijacking. Reasons: - 3.3B from 3rd party breaches - 12M from phishing - <1M from keylogge… https://t.co/C6IBuTblTl, Matt Cutts on Twitter
