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:
That Google Update May Have Benefited News Or Fresh Content Sites
On June 17th, we reported about a Google update, Google later confirmed the update as being part of their core algorithm and not related to Panda or Penguin or even HTTPS.
Marcus Tober provided some really interesting insight into this update basically showing how sites with news or fresh content seemed
Google Didn’t Get Rid Of All Emojis In The Search Results
Cyrus Shepard posted on Twitter that not all the emoji characters were gone, that he was able to bring up a hazard sign directly in the Google search results.
This only shows up on select browsers, I was able to replicate it using Safari on Mac…
Google Search Console Upgrades Help Feature
The Google Search Console, formerly known at Google Webmaster Tools, has added a more prominent help menu at the top of the page. If you login to your console, you will see the help menu at the top right…
Google AdSense Payment Reports Now Report Deductions
Google announced on the AdSense blog that they have now added deductions and their reasons to the AdSense payment reports. So instead of just showing estimated versus finalized earnings…
Hotel Amenities Now On Google’s Knowledge Graph
Google has added hotel amenities to the hotel knowledge graph box. Brad Brewer posted this on Google+ showing an example, but here are some additional examples showing how Google may list amenities such as Free Wi-Fi , Free parking, Pool, Air-conditioned…
Golden State Warriors Championship Twitter Cake
Daniel Brusilovsky, the Digital Initiatives Lead at the Golden State Warriors, shared on Twitter that the Twitter Sports team sent them a cake for winning the NBA finals. The cake is a gold color bas
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
#WebmasterNews: we launched a new resource channel for our Arabic-speaking…, Google+ – Google Webmasters
Dental SEO: Internal pages in local pack?, localsearchforum.com
Even better, "Does this screenshot look correct?" Uh, no, it’s a popup! 🙂 http://t.co/gHrJsnjrXc, Glenn Gabe on Twitter
