Daily Search Forum Recap: April 8, 2013

Apr 8, 2013 - 4:00 pm 0 by

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:

  • A Google Update Brewing?
    The ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has a nice uptick in chatter this weekend starting around Saturday but staying strong throughout Sunday on ranking changes and traffic changes...
  • SSL Web Sites Don't Get Ranking Boost In Google
    A Google+ thread has Michael Mahemoff asking what are the SEO pros and cons of switching your whole web site to SSL. The switch would change the URLs from http://www.domain.com/ to https://www.domain.com/...
  • Google, I Don't Want Your SEO Advice
    A webmaster asks in the Google Webmaster Help forum essentially why isn't Google sending him more traffic for a more set of diverse keyword phrases. So after hearing advice from other SEOs...
  • Do You Need Two Reconsideration Requests To Be Submitted?
    A WebmasterWorld thread has one webmaster asking if he needs to submit two reconsideration requests to Google. He asks because Google often requests you verify both the www and non-www version of your site to Google Webmaster Tools...
  • Google's Matt Phone
    Danny Sullivan was at Google the other day and snapped some pictures of Google items, I believe in the Google Store, and here is one of a red Google phone. Some may call it the Google Emergency Phone

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