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:
20th Google Panda Algorithm Update: Fairly Major
Yesterday we broke the news that there was an other update that overlapped the EMD update that we had on friday targeting exact match domains.
I wasn’t sure what that update was, so I emailed our friends at Google and Matt Cutts responded that it was a Panda update that began to roll out on Thursday and has been continuing to roll out even today and will likely finish rolling out through the weekend.
This is not a basic data refresh to the Panda algorithm, it is an update to the algorithm itself. Meaning…
One Week Later: Nudity Still In Google’s Search Results
Over a week ago, a searcher complained in the Google Web Search Help forums that when you search for [juvo] in Google, the images that show in the web results have an image that is of three women who are completely nude…
SEOs Discuss The Next Generation Of SEO
Tedster started a thread at WebmasterWorld to kick off a nice and future thinking discussion around the future of SEO practices and techniques. He named the thread, next generation SEO…
Google’s Internationalization SEO FAQ
Did you know Google has an official FAQ, frequently asked questions, document just on the internationalization of your site…
Sassi BoB On Why Search Data Should Be Public
This morning, +Karol Dziedzic notified me that I have “really sexy e-fans.” It turns out, +Sassi BoB from AuthorityLabs made a video on a story I wrote at Search Engine Land named Wikipedia Releases Search Data To Public But Pulls It After Privacy Concerns…
Peter Gabriel Playing At The GooglePlex
I spotted this picture on Flickr taken by Jared Kelly of Peter Gabriel, the famous singer while he was visiting Google at their Mountain View headquarters. He seems to be having a fun time, don’t you
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
Hockeydb.com redux – 161 days of penalty, Google Webmaster Help
Twitter To Roll Out Free Survey Tool To Big Advertisers, WebmasterWorld
Google Groups Creation, Error (#681), Google Web Search Help
