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:
TripAdvisor Blocking Google Places From Indexing Reviews
Yesterday we reported there was a problem with TripAdvisor reviews showing in Google Places, and said Google promised to fix the issue.
How To Spam Google Maps For Top Google Place Listings
Mike Blumenthal has uncovered a way of spamming Google Maps for top results in the new Google Places. He describes the process as “an elegant hack…
Bing Adds Bing Shopping Merchant Self Service Portal To adCenter
The CPC Strategy blog reported Bing has migrated the Bing Shopping Merchant portal to the adCenter portal. This is a new Merchant Self Service Portal linked to Microsoft’s adCenter…
How Google AdWords Sitelinks Impacts Organic Traffic
SEOmoz has a nice case study of the impact of turning on your AdWords Sitelinks in Google…
Google Image Search Updating Index Within Days
Last month we reported a November Google Image Search update. The thing is…
Google Books “Whale Fail”
The Google Books Fail Whale, when a page doesn’t load, you get served this image. Google Books is having trouble finding that page…
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
3 Misconceptions About Google Places & SEO, Sphinn
Google Labs: Body Browser, Google Blogoscoped Forum
Google Places SEO: Lessons Learned from Rank Correlation Data, Sphinn
Google Shows Chrome PCs, With Shipments In 2011, WebmasterWorld
Is Google Changing Quality Score Rules Again?, Sphinn
New Google Groups releases, Google Blogoscoped Forum
Twitter & Facebook links affect SEO on Google and Bing, Sphinn
Ideas for holiday or seasonal advertising, Google AdWords Help
Mobile Networks Want Apple, Facebook, Google, To Pay For Bandwidth, WebmasterWorld
