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: Again, Social Signals Do Not Influence Your Ranking
We’ve covered the topic of social signals and Google way way too much. But since John Mueller of Google mentioned it in a hangout last week, I figured why not repeat what he said…
Watch The Google App Indexing Hangout
This morning at 6am EST, Google’s Mariya Moeva, John Mueller and Krzysztof Muzyka (I believe that his last name)…
36% Of Webmasters Told Google Their Web Sites Were Hacked
This month, Google’s Webmaster team had a #nohack week, where they went through tons of information around hacking on the web…
Fetch as Google Adds Captcha Sometimes
Last week, Google has added a captcha to the Google Search Console, Fetch As Google feature. The captcha was triggered when you repeatedly ran the fetch and render function, over and over again.
Last week, I saw the Google Captcha, I’m not a robot, right away…
Google Map Maker Expands To 45 Countries & United States
A couple weeks ago, Google opened up Google Map Maker again for the first time in a few months since they closed it down in May over embarrassing edits.
A couple weeks ago, they opened editing with the new guidelines in Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, India…
Google House Heads To India
The Google India Google+ account shared a picture the other day of the Google House being set up somewhere in India. The Google House was also in the UK back in the day. I believe this is about prom
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
"Google "Views" goes offline & transfers to Google Maps now w/ Reviews/Photos tabs @mblumenthal @rustybrick http://t.co/GUchm4kM3L", Ryan Schilling on Twitter
Better start claiming those Twitter accounts for your top keywords! http://t.co/R5VcoedeoG", Scott Redgate on Twitter
Our final post in our #NoHacked campaign gives you steps to fix a site infected…, Google+ – Google Webmasters
Community Member of the Week – leandrofm (08/26), AdWords Community
Cool things you may not know you can do with Google http://ow.ly/Rk0IL, Google+
It’s Back to School Time – are your campaigns read…, AdWords Community
Should support section of website be Indexed?, WebmasterWorld
What to Do About Malicious 301 Redirects, WebmasterWorld
