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:

Never List URLs With Session IDs In A Google Sitemap
Google’s JohnMu warned one webmaster over the New Years break in a Google Webmaster Help thread to never ever list URLs with session IDs in the Sitemap XML file.

John said:

If you are not submitting clean URLs in your Sitemap file…

Googlers Helping Webmasters On New Years Again
Every year we like to give a shout out to those Googlers who are out in the forums helping webmasters on New Years day and eve. This year is no different…

WebmasterWorld Tries Out Heavier Home Page
WebmasterWorld, a popular forum we cover here a lot, is testing out a new home page look.

The new look incorporates more banner ads…

We’ve Been Googled: Leicester is Googled 2010
We’ve Been Googled: Leicester is Googled 2010

We’re Now Part Of Search Engine Land’s Network Of Web Sites
I am proud to announce that Third Door Media the company that owns and manages the Search Engine Land, Sphinn…

Google Czech Večern�ček Logo
Google Czech has a special logo today for Večern�ček, a television programme for the children in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia (before 1993 two different versions aired in the Czech part…

Price Increase For SphinnCon Israel – Register Now
Registration for SphinnCon Israel is going great but I need to get an accurate count of how many people will be attending and then lock a number of registrants by Wednesday…

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

Difference Between Mirror Websites And Micro Sites?, HighRankings Forums
Reverse Engineering SEO, Cre8asite Forums
Doodle Veaernícek, Google Blogoscoped Forum