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 The Bar Code Logo
If you visit the Google home page today, you may see Google’s logo has been taken over by a bunch of stripes. Those stripes are actually a bar code, and when you convert the bar code to english, guess what it means? You got it! It means Google. Here is a picture of it: There is a lot of discussion and questions around this logo. We have threads at WebmasterWorld, DigitalPoint Forums, a few at
Some Google AdSense Publishers Cannot Login To AdSense
There are many, many Google AdSense publishers who are complaining about not being able to login to the AdSense console. There are threads at Google AdSense Help and WebmasterWorld with many folks complaining. The issue first started yesterday at about 5pm (EST). Shortly after, people began noticing that if you login at https://www.google.com/adsense/login3 it does allow you in. The default login area seems to not work for many. I personally tried it and it works.
Google AdWords API v2009 Goes Offline
The Google AdWords API Help forum notifies us that the AdWords API is undergoing unscheduled maintenance since late last night. This impacts users of v2009 of the AdWords API only. Eric Koleda from the AdWords API Team team said: We are currently performing some unscheduled maintenance on the AdWords API servers. You won’t be able to access the API, but your ads will continue to run as normal. I’ll update this thread when the servers
SMX East 2009 Coverage:
Facebook Marketing Tactics
Diagnosing Technical SEO Issues
Search Meet Display; Display Meet Search
Twitter Marketing Tactics
Bringing PPC In House: How To Be Successful
Dealing With Domain Names, URLs, Parameters & All That Jazz
Social Media, Search & Reputation Management
Pumping Up WordPress For SEO
Analytics For Social Media
CSS, AJAX, Web 2.0 & SEO
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
AdSense site maintenance this Saturday, Oct 10, 10am-2pm PDT (5pm-9pm GMT), Google AdSense Help AdSense Scheduled Maintenance, WebmasterWorld
Special travel SERPS – How to get these?, WebmasterWorld
Welcome AnalyticsPro Krishna!, Google AdWords Help
Bing Voice Search on new Sprint Wireless Phone, WebmasterWorld
