Daily Search Forum Recap: May 6, 2013

May 6, 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:

  • 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.

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