Daily Search Forum Recap: April 18, 2016

Apr 18, 2016 - 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:

  • Google Fully Turns Off Feed To Toolbar PageRank
    As we reported early last month, Google began officially killing off toolbar PageRank. It started on March 7 2016 but it officially ended this past Friday, April 15, 2016. Any last remanent of Toolbar PageRank was officially shut off by Google...
  • Google's John Mueller Addresses Zombie Traffic Phenomenon
    Last week we covered our continued coverage of the Google Zombie traffic only because there seemed to be a spike in the conversation around that topic in the past week or so...
  • Google: Pages Move Around In Shards Very Slowly
    Most SEOs know that Google's database structure for storing content in their index is in shards. A database shard is a horizontal partition of data in a database or search engine. Each individual partition is referred to as a shard or database shard...
  • Keywords Label Field Now In Google AdWords Report Editor
    Jon Diorio, a Google AdWords Product Manager, shared on Google+ that they have added the keywords label field to the AdWords report editor. He said on Google+...
  • SEOs Experiment To Make Titles Stand Out In Google
    @pizzaseoEN posted on Twitter a UTF-8 experiment done by @dusoft around making your title tags stand out more in Google's search results. In short...
  • The Google Expense Bag
    Francisco "Paco" Solsona, who works at the Google Mexico office shared a picture of this Google Expense Bag. I find it hard to believe that Google can fit their expenses in this bag, but I guess they

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