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 Web Search Ranking Fluctuations In Mid-September?
I can’t ignore the WebmasterWorld thread that has been a bit heavier in webmaster chatter over the past several days, most noticeably over the weekend.
The chatter levels do not signal to me a huge update…
Google Analytics Now Defaults Day View To Hourly Graph
Google Analytics has made a subtle change to their graphing last night. When you view your Google Analytics data but limit the date range to show just one day…
Google May Have Changed How PageRank Flows With Nofollow Links
Back in 2009, Matt Cutts from Google wrote on PageRank sculpting saying:
So what happens when you have a page with ten PageRank points and ten outgoing links…
Google Hotel Finder Home Page No Longer Exists
Google has quietly killed off the home page for the Google Hotel Finder, now when you try to access it…
Dogs As Google Nooglers
Google shared a picture on the Google Students Google+ page of a dog, near the Android Noogler statue, wearing an Android hat. Maybe this is a Noogler (a new Googler) dog? Google wrote
Closed Tomorrow For Yom Kippur 5776
Tomorrow is Yom Kippur, you can read about it on Wikipedia.
I won’t be scheduling any posts here for tomorrow, so the site will be virtually closed. Although, I have scheduled an embargoed story on Search Engine Land for tomorrow…
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
Apple Removes Apps Infected With Malicious Code, WebmasterWorld
Call for Proposals: Faculty Research Awards in VR Google’s Faculty Research…, Google+ – Google Cardboard
Not good enough for Google but works for Bing, WebmasterWorld
Clean Up Yahoo Local Mess, localsearchforum.com
Fast is always better than slow, Google+ – Zineb Ait Bahajji
Moving Business – Best Practices, localsearchforum.com
Round 2: next presentation will be at #smx east. If you want to learn about something specific around mobile, mention me with your question, Gary Illyes on Twitter
