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 Maccabee Updates Hurt Many Celebrity Web Sites
Google somewhat confirmed there were many minor updates in that time frame. One of those updates may have hit many celebrity web sites... - Google: Avoid Using Google Tag Manager For SEO Experiments
There is a post about using Google Tag Manager for SEO experiments and if Google is able to pick up on the title tags, meta changes, etc with using Google Tag Manager. It is a pretty interesting blog post and covers the tests well... - Google Tests Related Searches Box In Image Search
It looks like Google is testing a related searches box directly in the mobile version of Google Image search. I personally tried multiple ways to replicate this feature, but I am not yet seeing it... - Rae (Hoffman) Dolan - The Search Community Honors You
This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series - feel free to nominate someone over here. Rae (Hoffman) Dolan, age 40 lives in Katy, Texas with her three children and her son CJ who passed away... - Marlene Dietrich Gets A Google Doodle
Today on Google's home page is a special Google logo, Doodle, for the 116th birthday of Marlene Dietrich. Marlene was a German actress who was also a US citizen... - Google Office Penguin Winter Display
Here is a photo from the Google office showing off their winter display, you bet, with Penguin. There are also some seals on a glacier that won't melt. It was shared on Instagram by Nick who wrote G
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Does lack of schema data affect your SEO?, WebmasterWorld
- Good to see more people doing SEO experiments to test JavaScript implementations: https://t.co/AHlZv5cgI3 but I'd like to add a warning that… https://t.co/77CeYiNPH5, Martijn Scheijbeler on Twitter
- Restructured ecommerce website ranks for awhile, then disappears, WebmasterWorld
