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’s Penguin Algorithm Still Not Running Regularly & Monthly
When Google released the well overdue Penguin 3.0 back in October of last year, we thought that would bring a faster running and more regularly and frequently updated refreshes to the algorithm…
Does Google Want To Kill The AJAX Web Like The Flash Web?
A couple year ago, Google released best practices on how to make AJAX crawlable for search engines. But as I covered last week at Search Engine Land…
WordPress Auto-Updates Millions Of Yoast SEO Plugins After Vulnerability
Yesterday news came out that the single most popular third-party piece of SEO software was vulnerable to a serious blind SQL injection attach. Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin that is reportedly used by 14 million SEO blogs was vulnerable…
Google Reviews & Ratings Rich Snippets Guidelines Updated: Can’t Be Category Based
On March 9th, Google updated the review-specific usage guidelines and policies for reviews and rating rich snippets…
Animated GIF: Google Shop In The UK
Yesterday, Google opened their first official Google Store. They opened it in the UK. And Google UK posted on Google+ a time-lapse animated GIF of people walking by the store, peeking in, and so on.
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
"New" ad size, WebmasterWorld
Google Trusted Stores SEO benefit?, WebmasterWorld
How Do You Know When Links Are "bad" From A Categorical Perspe, HighRankings Forums
Maybe Panda is not side wide?, WebmasterWorld
Welcome to the Google shop The fun has just begun. Come and say hello at the…, Google+ – Google UK
#AskAdWords – Location Extensions, AdWords Community
@GoogleNL is testing SERP’s with one line of description. @rustybrick @gfiorelli1 @sengineland http://t.co/RW0gmAmqJK, Adwise on Twitter
Google – Encourage to use Black Hat Tricks, blackhatworld.com
Too Much Of A Natural Thing?, Cre8asite Forums
Treemaps Report also available under All Traffic section in Google Analytics #googleanalytics http://t.co/Z6SIc6PPb0, Rakesh Singh on Twitter
Visit the Everest Region of Nepal, homeland of the Sherpa people, now in Google…, Google+ – Google Maps