Daily Search Forum Recap: July 30, 2014

Jul 30, 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: NBCNews Trouble With GoogleBot?
    Brian Fitzpatrick, a software engineer manager at Google, posted on Twitter a screen shot of NBCNews.com not being indexed properly by Google. He wrote...
  • Google AdWords Product Listing Ads Gets Product Ratings
    Google announced they are now adding product ratings, one to five stars, on their product listing ads in the Google search results.
  • Google: Where Are The Search Results?
    Since early this year, Google began showing really long form answers, or as Google calls them, "Quick Answers...
  • Tisk, Tisk, Tisk: AdRoll Generated Tons Of Invalid Traffic
    Last Thursday, we reported on unusual huge spike of traffic that were marked as direct traffic sources in analytics. I initially blamed Microsoft, because they are a fun target to blame (no seriously), over Internet Explorer 7 having a bug but that was wrong...
  • Google Search Tool To Filter Private Content
    Kenichi Suzuki, one of my favorite SEOs from Japan, posted a screen shot on Google+ of a search tool filter to filter results by private content shared with me...
  • Google Cookie Tower
    Chris Scott posted pictures of the Google City Expert indoor picnic event in Edinburgh's Signet Library on July 24th. This picture is of a tower of cookies, all in Google colors. He posted this one F

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