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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 10, 2012

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: Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: February 10, 2012 Busy week in search at the Search Engine Roundtable. Google provided the 17 search quality changes they made in January... Google Changes Navigation Bar Again As expected,...

Daily Search Forum Recap: February 9, 2012

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:Bing's New Design For Search Results Yesterday I reported at Search Engine Land that Bing is testing a new user interface and design for their search results. I was able to see the new design yesterday but today, the new...

Daily Search Forum Recap: February 8, 2012

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 AdWords Click To Call Phone Fraud? A WebmasterWorld thread has an advertiser of Google AdWords claiming his click to call campaign is receiving invalid or fraudulent calls.He said all of a sudden he is receiving...

Daily Search Forum Recap: February 7, 2012

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:2012 Poll: Did Your Site Recover From The Google Panda Update? It is just under a year since Google pushed out the Panda update on February 24th. Since then, we ran a poll back in June asking if anyone recovered. 85% said...

Daily Search Forum Recap: February 6, 2012

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:Did Google Just Say Panda Is Now A Rolling Update? We've asked when will Google roll the Panda algorithm more seamlessly into their algorithms - where Google does not have to manually press a button to run the Panda algorithm...Google...

Daily Search Forum Recap: February 3, 2012

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:Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: February 3, 2012 This week at the Search Engine Roundtable I posted the monthly Google webmaster report. Google rich snippets are showing up from... Several Week Delays For Google News...

Daily Search Forum Recap: February 2, 2012

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:Bruce Clay Let's The SEM Industry Down When you say the name Bruce Clay and you are someone who reads this blog, you know who I am talking about...February 2012 Google Webmaster Report In January, we had Google release...

Daily Search Forum Recap: February 1, 2012

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:Bing Now Including Full Articles On Bing Results Search for [gout] on Bing and you will see a brand new "feature" in the search results.Bing now will show you the full article and content from some partner third-party...

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 31, 2012

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: Spam Links To 404 Pages Won't Hurt You Google's John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Help thread said that if you have bad or spammy links pointing to 404 pages, it should have no negative impact on your overall...

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 30, 2012

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: Robots.txt Files Must Be Smaller Than 500KB Google's John Mueller reminds webmasters on his Google+ page that Google has a limit of only being able to process up to 500KB of your robots.txt file.This is an important...

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 27, 2012

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:Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: January 27, 2012 Busy week in search this week - with Google confirming a Panda update, which I labeled 3.2. Bing seems to really love regional sites in their regional indexes. Google...

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 26, 2012

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:New: Test Sitemaps & Googlebot Mobile In Google Webmaster Tools I believe there are two new features now in Google Webmaster Tools. They are the ability to test sitemaps before submitting them to Google and testing crawlers...

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 25, 2012

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 Panda 3.2 Update Happening Now? It has been over 9 weeks since we had an official Google Panda update. Now I am seeing some chatter in the forums of a possible sign that Google had updated the Panda algorithm and...

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 24, 2012

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:Is On Page SEO Dead With Google? There is an interesting thread taking place at WebmasterWorld. In short, a very respected and senior member at the forums said he made on-page text changes to his pages about 10 days ago andFocus...

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 23, 2012

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's Blocked Site Feature Missing For 13 Days In March 2011, Google enabled a blocked sites feature, allowing users to block sites they do not want to see in the search results. That feature went away for some when Google...