Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'forums'

Last week, we reported that a fake Yahoo employee might be picking up unsuspecting SEM clients. Well, I was wrong, at least about the forum person being a fake employee of Yahoo, he is. The issue is, Yahoo first told...

Posted on September 29, 2009 8:56 AM

I spotted a weird thread at DigitalPoint Forums with a new member of the forum claiming to be a Yahoo employee. The person said, "My name is Matthew, I am a Yahoo! employee who works with advertisers on both the...

Posted on September 24, 2009 9:12 AM

I never understand it when I see trolls come into forums, owned and managed daily by search engine representatives, and spam them. It is clear that these forums are crawling with people who can seriously impact your site's ranking in...

Posted on September 16, 2009 8:05 AM

The infamous and legendary GoogleGuy at WebmasterWorld has gone almost a full year without posting at WebmasterWorld. GoogleGuy's last post was in a WebmasterWorld thread on July 24, 2008 at about 6:30pm (EST). He replied to confirm a PageRank toolbar...

Posted on July 23, 2009 9:12 AM

I love it how personal some people are in the SEO/SEM forums. It reminds me of the old days when the forums were like extended family for most of us. It many cases, that is still true, but as the...

Posted on May 18, 2009 1:30 PM

I see them every day, the newbie SEO post. Almost every SEO goes through it at one point. They ask a newbie question and people in the industry are nice enough to answer it. Some mock others, but overwhelming, the...

Posted on December 24, 2008 8:16 AM

As you know, Google is switching many of their help forums from Google Groups to a new interactive help forum. The AdSense forums, Chrome forums and now the AdWords have all moved over. AdWordsPro Sarah had the honor of posting...

Posted on November 6, 2008 8:24 AM

In a Google Groups thread, AdWordsPro.Sarah tells us that there will be a new forum opening on November 5th . The new forums will boast user posting incentives, integration with the help center, enhanced user profiles (personalization with social --...

Posted on October 31, 2008 9:36 AM

As forum moderators with years of experience behind them can attest to, there are a lot of spammers on the interwebs. As Roger Montti of WebmasterWorld says, there are three different types of spammers from noticeable ones to the not-so-noticeable...

Posted on September 9, 2008 9:30 AM

The YouTube Blog announced that they have launched a YouTube support forum at Google Groups. The forum can be found at groups.google.com/group/youtube-help. As you know, we track forums for new discoveries, insights and hot topics. So we will be adding...

Posted on July 17, 2008 8:11 AM

Over the weekend, we learned that Bill Slawski, aka bragadocchio, has stepped down from his administrative duties at Cre8asite Forums. Bill has been with Cre8asite Forums, pretty much since the start, back in the Yahoo club days - as a...

Posted on July 14, 2008 7:00 AM

For the past few hours, Search Engine Watch Forums has been returning a server starter page from Red Hat Linux. It seems like many, if not all, the internal forums, such as the Google forum page are returning 404 not-found...

Posted on July 1, 2008 6:45 AM

John Carcutt wrote at Search Engine Journal that "real SEOs don't go to forums." That said, we here at Search Engine Roundtable cover only forum discussion, so we ask the question: are SEO forums really needed? After all, blogs have...

Posted on June 9, 2008 8:51 AM

Hasn't been a good weekend for forums. First we learn that DigitalPoint Forums had database issues and now I learn that the software used at WebmasterWorld was "compromised last week." Brett Tabke posted the details of the issue. He said,...

Posted on June 3, 2008 9:16 AM

DigitalPoint Forums, one of our main sources of search news and topics, is currently suffering a major outage. Since last night, the forum has been offline due to what appears to be database issues. It appears to me, from the...

Posted on June 2, 2008 7:35 AM

Before reading on, would you consider forums "social media?" This is the question that is posed on a High Rankings Forum post. Many people find that the answer varies. Forums, after all, are inherently social -- they bring people together...

Posted on May 2, 2008 10:02 AM

We have Google's Blog Search and Technorati for blog search, but has anyone found a reputable forum search engine? Enter Twing. Twing allows you to search and discover forum discussion. We do that here but this is something different. Find...

Posted on March 21, 2008 10:34 AM

Yesterday, I received a private message from a DigitalPoint Forums member that was asking for help. The member said he is from Egypt and has a PayPal account used for online transactions. He said his PayPal account "got limited" and...

Posted on January 3, 2008 6:57 AM

A HighRankings Forums thread has one member reporting the "diary" of a 302 redirect. Here is the timeline so far: 12/19/07: 302 Re-direct implemented from www.oldsite.com to www.newsite.com 12/20/07: New site name (not url - so BRAND NAME rather than...

Posted on December 24, 2007 7:33 AM

Well, not quite, but forum members are noticing that people are shifting their focus away from forums and into blogs. Do forums have to adapt? Not necessarily. Some forum members are not yet embracing the blogosphere. The audiences may stay...

Posted on November 16, 2007 10:34 AM

Susan Moskwa of the Google Webmaster Central team posts on Google Groups asking group participants what they usually do to monitor posts. There's a lot of interesting feedback, but ironically, some people actually say that the Google Groups search "sucks."...

Posted on August 30, 2007 10:13 AM

We cover reputation management every so often. There are reputation management sessions at Search Engine Strategies. With search, a positive company image is quite important. Bad publicity ranked on the top of the SERPs can hurt your image. Barry wrote...

Posted on July 5, 2007 10:00 AM

What do you do if a forum moderator becomes hurtful to your forums rather than helpful? A WebmasterWorld thread asks this question based on negative actions performed by a moderator of his forum that resulted in loss of membership. Consequently,...

Posted on May 10, 2007 9:42 AM

Yesterday, Search Engine Watch Forums has changed the placement of the ads displayed on the site and forums. The ads used to be primarily on the left hand bar, in a box on the right side and a thin line...

Posted on May 2, 2007 6:58 AM

WebmasterWorld administrator engine introduced a new moderator to the Google News forum at WebmasterWorld. The new moderator is a long time WebmasterWorld member and very involved in many of the SEM forums. He is Robert Charlton and he is a...

Posted on March 8, 2007 7:46 AM

WebmasterWorld has launched a new forum named Social Media Tagging and Bookmarking Optimization. The new forum comes to life with the recent buzz on SMO - Social Media Optimization. What is SMO? Tagging Web based bookmarking Digg.com StumbleUpon del.icio.us Link...

Posted on February 22, 2007 8:16 AM

WebmasterWorld moderator stuntdubl has started a thread in the WebmasterWorld Supporters forum (paid subscription required) named 2006 Threads of the Year. I will list some, but not all, of the threads selected to be the best of 2006. Link development...

Posted on January 2, 2007 7:22 AM

Kim Krause Berg at Cre8asite Forums informed us that long time moderator, ILoveJackDaniels, Dave Childs Child, is stepping down from his moderator position at Cre8asite Forums. ILoveJackDaniels has been the technical administrator for the forums for years. Ammon Johns, BlackKnight,...

Posted on November 29, 2006 7:00 AM

GoogleGuy is well known in the WebmasterWorld forums. He has over 2,800 post since he joined in October 7, 2001. So he had around one and a half posts per day since his join date. This may have been the...

Posted on October 30, 2006 7:51 AM

Via WebmasterWorld a USA Today article named Jury awards $11.3M over defamatory Internet posts; A Florida woman has been awarded $11.3 million in a defamation lawsuit against a Louisiana woman who posted messages on the Internet accusing her of being...

Posted on October 12, 2006 7:21 AM

Most forums have a feature that allow you to automate your signature at the end of each of your posts. So instead of signing off each post with, "All the best, my name here" you can place that in your...

Posted on August 29, 2006 7:39 AM

Yup, one of my favorite forums has turned four years old. Cre8asite Forums is four years old, helping Webmasters make their Web sites better through sharing experiences and ideas. We covered Cre8asite's third and second birthdays in the past. So...

Posted on August 21, 2006 7:31 AM