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: Hidden Content On Mobile Is Okay
I asked Google's John Mueller yesterday, based on an argument I had with a group of SEOs the previous Friday, if Google will also look at the mobile template to determine if content hidden... - Google Doesn't Put GoogleBot On A Leash - Manually That Is
A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster asking why GoogleBot seems to be maxed out at crawling his site at 10 requests per second. The webmaster even documented the behavior over time and plotted it in this graph below... - Google At Webwinkel Vakdagen : Join For Free
If you are in the Netherlands between the dates of January 21st and the 22nd, and you want a chance to talk to Google employees who are part of the search and broader teams... - Google News RSS Feeds For Custom News Broken
Searchers are reporting in the Google News Help forum that the RSS feed located at the bottom of the Google News page no longer shows your custom news personalizations you made to your Google News feed... - Jewglers 8th Day Hanukkah Menorahs In New York
Today is the last day of Chanukah and Jews around the world light the 8th and last candle on their menorah. Jews in Google, also known as Jewglers also do the same. Google posted on Google+ a pictur
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- An Unseen Pitfall of SEO?, WebmasterWorld
- Spam reporting a competitor to Google - help needed, WebmasterWorld
- The Year in Local Search: A Timeline of the Top Stories of 2014 - Street Fight, localsearchforum.com
- #AskAdWords - Top of Page Ad Position, AdWords Community
- Baidu claims deep learning breakthrough with Deep Speech, WebmasterWorld
- Santa has just been cleared for takeoff! #TrackSanta with #GoogleMaps and…, Google+ - Google Maps
- Search engine Baidu plans launch of Thai commercial services next year, WebmasterWorld