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 Fully Turns Off Feed To Toolbar PageRank

As we reported early last month, Google began officially killing off toolbar PageRank. It started on March 7 2016 but it officially ended this past Friday, April 15, 2016.

Any last remanent of Toolbar PageRank was officially shut off by Google…
Google’s John Mueller Addresses Zombie Traffic Phenomenon

Last week we covered our continued coverage of the Google Zombie traffic only because there seemed to be a spike in the conversation around that topic in the past week or so…

Google: Pages Move Around In Shards Very Slowly

Most SEOs know that Google’s database structure for storing content in their index is in shards. A database shard is a horizontal partition of data in a database or search engine. Each individual partition is referred to as a shard or database shard…

Keywords Label Field Now In Google AdWords Report Editor

Jon Diorio, a Google AdWords Product Manager, shared on Google+ that they have added the keywords label field to the AdWords report editor.

He said on Google+…

SEOs Experiment To Make Titles Stand Out In Google

@pizzaseoEN posted on Twitter a UTF-8 experiment done by @dusoft around making your title tags stand out more in Google’s search results.

In short…

The Google Expense Bag
Francisco “Paco” Solsona, who works at the Google Mexico office shared a picture of this Google Expense Bag. I find it hard to believe that Google can fit their expenses in this bag, but I guess they

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

25 Principles of Mobile App Design #MobileMonday, The Google Advertiser Community
comScore: Data Suggests U.S. Desktop Use Has Passed Its Peak and Now Declining, WebmasterWorld
Flashback: A year ago in the Google Partners Community, The Google Advertiser Community
Google Result Hijacking, WebmasterWorld