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: NBCNews Trouble With GoogleBot?
Brian Fitzpatrick, a software engineer manager at Google, posted on Twitter a screen shot of NBCNews.com not being indexed properly by Google.
He wrote…
Google AdWords Product Listing Ads Gets Product Ratings
Google announced they are now adding product ratings, one to five stars, on their product listing ads in the Google search results.
Google: Where Are The Search Results?
Since early this year, Google began showing really long form answers, or as Google calls them, “Quick Answers…
Tisk, Tisk, Tisk: AdRoll Generated Tons Of Invalid Traffic
Last Thursday, we reported on unusual huge spike of traffic that were marked as direct traffic sources in analytics. I initially blamed Microsoft, because they are a fun target to blame (no seriously), over Internet Explorer 7 having a bug but that was wrong…
Google Search Tool To Filter Private Content
Kenichi Suzuki, one of my favorite SEOs from Japan, posted a screen shot on Google+ of a search tool filter to filter results by private content shared with me…
Google Cookie Tower
Chris Scott posted pictures of the Google City Expert indoor picnic event in Edinburgh’s Signet Library on July 24th. This picture is of a tower of cookies, all in Google colors. He posted this one F
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
Bing Local – Silly Results, WebmasterWorld
Did you know that titles strongly influence which search results people click…, Google+ – Google Webmasters
Facebook To Force Users Worldwide To Download Messenger For Mobile Chat, WebmasterWorld
Microsoft Adds Foursquare Data To Cortana, WebmasterWorld
I had the honor of delivering the commencement speech at Stanford’s Department…, Google+ – Krishna Bharat
Recommended videos disappeared from my homepage, YouTube Help
Tip of the Week: Hide navigation and focus on reports Posted by +Daniel…, Google+ – Google Analytics
