Daily Search Forum Recap: May 6, 2013

May 6, 2013 • 4:00 pm | comments

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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:

May 2013 Google Webmaster Report
It has been a pretty busy month over at Google, not much in terms of "official" updates but a lot of discussion about changes on both the algorithm side and user interface side. Plus, we learned a lot from Google comments...
Exact Match Domainers: Are You Switching Or Improving?
Several months ago, Google launched the Google EMD Update that went after "low-quality exact-match domains in search results," according to Google's head of search spam, Matt Cutts. Since then...
Google: Don't Hide URLs In Search Results. We Don't Like It.
@tecnonetblog, a man who spots probably 2 - 5 Google experiments per week, noticed a new one where Google is not displaying the search results URL in the search results interface...
Google's Cutts Say Search Flux Not Meant To Trick SEOs?
Several months ago we covered discussion around a patent document filed by Google named ranking documents...
Google Maps Images: Can I Use Them?
One of the more common topics I see come up is the question of, can I use images from Google Maps or Google Earth on my web site, on a t-shirt, in the news paper...
T-Shirt: Doodle 4 Google
Avery Christiansen got a Doodle 4 Google t-shirt the other day. I assume she was one of the kids who submitted a nice Doodle to Google. I don't see on the finalist lists but she did get the t-shirt.