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:
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: January 7, 2011
Broadcasted from Jerusalem Israel, I bring you an abridged version of the search video recap. I covered how Google was emailing webmasters about penalties such as bad links and cloaking. Google suggested that some sites drop their robots.txt file.
Google Doesn’t Want You To Think About PageRank
A WebmasterWorld thread asks, why does Google not show a page’s PageRank within Webmaster Tools. The SEO asked, “The reason we all want to see pagerank is to tell how our site(s) are performing, just like all the other stats provided…
Google’s Numbers In Webmaster Tools Are +/- 2.5M
Ever wonder how accurate the numbers in Google Webmaster Tools are?
A Google Webmaster Help thread makes you think it is about 90% accurate. Well, let me explain better.
Click Bombing YouTube Publishers To Get Them Banned
A YouTube Help thread reports of YouTube aggressively banning YouTube accounts of publishers due to abuse.
A month ago…
Yahoo’s Tigger The Tiger
A picture from Halloween, I believe, of Tigger The Tiger at Yahoo.
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
Google vs Facebook In Social, Innovation, and Growth, WebmasterWorld
FTP and SEO, WebmasterWorld
Is It Better To Have Anchor Text Of The Exact Kw Phrase?, Cre8asite Forums
What is Googlebot-Image doing?, Google Webmaster Help
White rectangle with no map detail prints where the highlighted route should be, Google Maps Help
