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 Spam Squad On Polish Hacker’s Trail
Last week we covered that Google Investigating Polish Hacker Who Is Stealing Webmaster Rankings. It was a case of a hacker using iframes and hacking into other sites…
Google: Crawl Rate Increases Are Not Related To Algorithm Updates
Often I’ll see webmasters and SEOs say that they see a huge spike in GoogleBot crawl activity on their web sites and thus, they are expecting to see an update in the upcoming days…
Google Knowledge Graph Edits By Owner Happen Quickly
A couple weeks ago we mentioned at the bottom that you can edit your knowledge graph via a tip from @ChrisGDunn. Well, it has been showing up more…
Google UK’s Matt Brittin Asked What He Is Paid
Matt Brittin, Google’s President, EMEA Business & Operations is now all over social media buzzing about he refused to answer how much he is paid by Google…
Google Aerial Silks
Did you know they have an aerial silks class at Google? Here is a photo of one Googler hanging upside down from ropes and hopes during an aerial silks class at the GooglePlex. Google’s yoga teacher
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
@rustybrick "people also search for" on the bottom on mobile results? Common? https://t.co/Bzm96WwtvE, Northeastern Ext on Twitter
A new chapter begins… I’m very excited to announce I’ll be joining Grail…, Google+ – Jeff Huber
Reviews: What’s the Difference Between Libel & Opinion? $350K in Damages, localsearchforum.com
Twitter’s New Timeline Option Inserts "Best Tweets First", WebmasterWorld
Yelp Review Nets Attorney $350,000 In Damages, WebmasterWorld
@bhartzer should be same. Make sure you use the site move tool though, that helps A LOT, Gary Illyes on Twitter
Inflated Adsense pageviews, WebmasterWorld
it had to happen, WebmasterWorld
Learn more about the new People API from #Google via Laurence Moroney:, Google+ – Android Developers
