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 Search Disses Hanukkah This Year?
Every year for a long long time, when you searched for the holidays, be it [hanukkah], [kwanzaa], [christmas] and related queries... - Google Testing Four AdWords Ads Again
The whole SEM community is up in arms about Google testing four ads, AdWords ads, in the Google search results page. This is something Google has tested on and off for years and years... - Google Place Actions Documentation Removed & 404ed
Friday we reported that Google now is showing the Google Place Action rich snippet documentation to all. But some time between when I wrote about it and now, Google has removed the documentation from the web site... - Google Traffic Soars After SEO Drops Links From Disavow File
There is a WebmasterWorld thread which has an SEO who accidentally removed all the links from their disavow file and a week later, his traffic to his web site "soared" he said. Here is his timeline: 22nd Nov - Disavow file overwritten by mistake... - Google AdWords Ads With Two Structured Snippet Extensions
Google in August came out with a structured snippet extension that lets advertisers show additional structured information that show with your text ads. Now, Google is allowing advertisers add two lines of that information... - Google Expands Knowledge Box On Musicians, Actors, TV Shows & Movies
Late Friday, Google announced they've expanded their answers and knowledge graph information around musicians, actors... - Google On Campus Store Now Open To Public
Danny Sullivan was at the GooglePlex, Google's Mountain View headquarters, last week. He snapped a picture of the front door of the new Google Merchant Store. He said that it is now open to the public
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Help on Social, a new way to ask and answer Google..., The Google Advertiser Community
- Nov 2015 Phantom updates: user-engagement factors + Panda, WebmasterWorld
- Very curious: for porn-related navigational queries, Google doesn't display KG panel, but Wikipedia rich snippets https://t.co/sK4pVxMnOM, Sergio Redondo on Twitter
