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:

August 2011 Google Webmaster Report
Here is a recap of the past month’s Google webmaster related news.

The ongoing WebmasterWorld thread talks more about Panda. But webmasters are also complaining about international traffic that appears to be “fake…

Google Enables URL Submissions Via Webmaster Tools
Google announced they have added a new way to submit URLs to Google for crawling and consideration into Google’s index…

Google’s Logger Popup
Google is fixing a problem where a Google Logger popup comes up when a user conducts a search on certain browsers.

I am not certain exactly what the logger does but here is a screen shot of the bug. The pop up will come up or be blocked by popup blockers…

Google’s Cleaner Spam Reporting Page
Last night, Matt Cutts from Google tweeted they have “released the biggest refresh of our spam report form in, oh, say 10 years.” Indeed.

Here is a picture of the new page:

As you can see…

Webmasters Worries About Google Chrome Pre-Fetching
The other day, Google announced a feature built into Chrome named pre-fetching. It isn’t new but Google is talking about it again and it is scaring webmasters…

Switzerland Google Bike
Here is a picture of a Google Bike on a bike rack in Zurich, Switzerland. The picture was taken by Walid Ghazzo last month and posted on Flickr.

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

10 Tips For Beating Google Panda: How We Came Back From The Wilderness, Sphinn
6 Advanced Ways to Improve Your Search Engine Rankings, Sphinn
Adwords Express Tip #3, Google Places
Brainstorming: Getting links from news websites, citation development, WebmasterWorld
Discussion: What Have We Learned From Google’s Panda Algorithm?, Sphinn
Foursquare Launches Pages For Business, WebmasterWorld
I wonder if google feels dirty after putting that ad on their homepage, WebmasterWorld
Images From Content Delivery Network?, Google News Help
Latest Activity not Updating, YouTube Help
No results for region Serbia, Google Web Search Help
Reporting Exception: An internal error has occurred., microsoftadvertising.com
SEO company created fake site for my business, Google Web Search Help
Your Reaction? Feature on Videos, YouTube Help
[Logo] Roberto Burle Marx, Google Blogoscoped Forum