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:
- Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: November 18, 2011
This week at the Search Engine Roundtable we covered a post by Google talking about the ten most recent algorithm updates. Google's Matt Cutts was quotes as saying Panda was first about content farms but is much more than that now. Google is now showing table formats in the snippets... - Feds Kick Out Mortgage Scammers On Google AdWords
Mercury News reports the US Federal Government has shut down "dozens" of online mortgage scammers from using Google AdWords as a way to attract new victims. This comes month after Google settled with the US to pay $500 million for illegal ads... - Does Reversing The Google Geographic Target Work?
A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around using the geographic target option in Google Webmasters Tools. One interesting point brought up by Tedster was that when you use it... - SpiderDuck: The Realtime Twitter Spider
Twitter has unveiled their URL fetcher, which they named SpiderDuck... - Louis Daguerre Google Logo
Today Google is honoring Louis Daguerre with a special Google logo, also known as a Google Doodle. Louis Daguerre was well known for inventing the daguerreotype process of photography, which was the first commercially successful photographic process... - Google + 1 Button In The Physical World
Yesterday, Louis Gray posted a real life Google +1 button picture on his Google + profile. I guess someone at Google put this together. I think it actually works, if you press the button with your
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- New Accounts in MCC Unavailable Until 2012?, WebmasterWorld
- Google employee harassing my site, Google Webmaster Help
- How Apple's Siri Could Destroy Local SEO, Sphinn
- Url Structures: Deep Pages = Weaker Ranking?, HighRankings Forums
- Do the hustle! Tips from pubcon, WebmasterWorld
- How Apple's Siri Could Destroy Local SEO, Sphinn