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:

To Survive You Must Give Google Your Structure Content & Data?
Greg Niland, aka GoodROI, posted a thread at WebmasterWorld arguing that if you do not hand over your data and content to Google in a structure format, then you will die a slow death…

Medical Sites Caught Google Handed Buying Links
Gary Illyes, a Google Webmaster Trends Analyst for Google Switzerland, who was recruited back in 2011, responded to a few threads over the holiday break. Here are two medical related sites that are complaining they don’t get traffic from Google…

Google: Don’t Change Your URLs For SEO Purposes
Google’s John Mueller responded to a question in the Google Webmaster Help forums about changing a site’s URL structure completely…

Google Engineers Take Offense To Dilbert On Arrogance

See that Dilbert cartoon about Google engineers on the 27th, if not, here it is above.

As you can see, it conveys a stereotype that Google engineers are arrogant. Truthfully, many engineers come off as arrogant, so I doubt it is just a Google engineer stereotype…

Google: It’s Hard To Recognize Your Large Photos Because Of Your JavaScript Links
A webmaster is upset that his images aren’t being indexed from his site. He posted a complaint in the Google Webmaster Help forums…

Google’s Matt Cutts Celebrity Endorser For Penguin Popper
Okay, just kidding, he is not the official celebrity endorser for the Hog Wild Toys Penguin Popper, but he did share a picture of it on Twitter and said, “When penguins attack! Merry Christmas!” The

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

Keeping Ahead Of The Search Marketing Game: It Takes A Lot Of Work, Cre8asite Forums
URLs: To "/" or NOT to "/". That is the question, WebmasterWorld
Ad Unit Just Disappeared, WebmasterWorld
Reverse Backlinks – Tracking links I give not get, WebmasterWorld