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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 16, 2011

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:

Results: 47% Will Try Google’s PageSpeed Service, 30% Won’t
A few months ago, Google launched a CDN like page speed service and we asked, would you give Google pagespeed a try…

New SEO Term: Google Vibration Effect
On day two of a new SEO term, we have Google Vibration Effect.

This one comes with no explanation. A DigitalPoint Forums thread just has one webmaster stating someone told him his site suffers from it…

9.2% Of You Lost Your Jobs Due To Google’s Panda Update
The unemployment rate as released on October 7th is at 9.1%, pretty high for U.S. standards. How does that relate to the SEO industry? Well, it doesn’t but it is unusually close to the 9.2% of you who claimed you lost your job because of the Google Panda Update.

Matt Cutts Capturing Baby Pandas!
Danny Sullivan posted yet another funny picture on his Google + profile. Danny said, “I was able to sneak into the GooglePlex last night and was able to find +Matt Cutts’s office. I was shocked…”

New SEO Term: Google BLOOP
Since I am offline today, figured it would be fun to post a new SEO term I spotted in the forums today and tomorrow.

Today’s new term is BLOOP…

Spelling & Grammar Not A Direct Google Ranking Factor
A new thread at Google Webmaster Help asked a question that Matt Cutts of Google has a video answer on. The question was, is spelling and/or grammar a ranking factor used by Google…

Most SEOs Report Hacked Sites To Google
A few months ago we polled our readers asking Do You Report Malware In Search Results To Google…

Bing Influences Many SEOs To Use Meta Keywords Tag
About a month ago, Bing confirmed they use the meta keywords tag as part of their many ranking signals.

As we said then, Yahoo did also. Most SEOs I know, at least in the publishing business, don’t bother with the meta keywords but according to my poll…

Angry Birds At Google
Danny Sullivan was at the Google Zeitgeist a few weeks ago and snapped a picture of when Tony Hawk wins against Scooter Braun in Angry Birds challenge at the event. He posted the picture on Google +.

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

Foursquare Launches Radar, WebmasterWorld
Google Engineer Calls Google+ a Pathetic Afterthought, WebmasterWorld

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