Daily Search Forum Recap: April 21, 2014

Apr 21, 2014 - 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 Penalizes PostJoint Over Guest Blog Links
    It seems Google has gone after yet another guest blog network that is being used by SEOs for link building purposes. The link network is named PostJoint and has gone on record that they are different from MyBlogGuest, which was penalized a month ago. Matt Cutts confirmed...
  • Google Hot Searches Email Subscriptions
    Google announced you can how subscribe to Hot Searches for any country or the top US charts via email. This way, you can be notified of the hot trends...
  • 62% Say Attacking Google's Matt Cutts Is Wrong
    I am happy to say that the majority of our industry thinks that attacking Google's head of search spam, Matt Cutts, as wrong. I ran a poll asking Should SEOs/Webmasters Attack Google's Matt Cutts?
  • How SEOs Would React To Google Dropping Links As A Ranking Factor
    As you know, Yandex, the popular Russian search engine, officially dropped link factors from their ranking algorithm within specific sectors. Google's Matt Cutts said...
  • A Stuffed Panda Boarding A Train
    Asian countries love Pandas and here is a stuffed Panda boarding a train. @noruweijin posted it on Twitter the other week and Google's Matt Cutts retweeted it. I guess

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

  • Note: I am offline today, so all posts were scheduled...
 

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