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: Shopping Cart Abandonment Not A Search Ranking Factor

Google’s John Mueller said that having a high shopping cart abandonment rate is not a specific issue with ranking in Google. It is not a ranking signal…

Does The Time To Fetch & Render Indicate Possible Google Crawling Issues?

Andrew Shotland asked Google’s John Mueller an interesting question around the fetch and render tool in the Google Search Console…

Google Keeps Debunking 301 Redirect Dilution Myths

For the past couple years, Google has been trying to communicate that 301 and 302 redirects pass full PageRank…

Google AdSense Ad Balance Tool Now Back

Google posted on the AdSense Google+ channel that the ad balancer tool which is a tool that can be used to show less lower paying ads on your site…

Google Logo For Amalia Hernandez – 100th Birthday Of The Mexican Ballet Dancer

Today on Google’s home page in the US, Mexico, Canada and many other regions is a special Google logo, Doodle, for Amalia Hernandez. It would be her 100th birthday today…

Google Ski Lift & Hot Air Balloon Cart
Here is a photo I found on Instagram of a room at Google where they have an indoor ski gondola lift and a hot air balloon cart side by side. I am not sure of the purpose of the room but it looks like

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

Apple blocking ads that follow users around web is ‘sabotage’, WebmasterWorld
BlueBorne, WebmasterWorld
Google is removing my images after I optimized my site speed, WebmasterWorld