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 Webmaster Tools Drops Author Stats
In December 2011, Google launched author stats, a way to see how your content, across sites, based on your Google Authorship profile, fared. That is now gone... - Google Gives No Comment On Pigeon Updates
On Friday we reported on a refresh of the local search results, after the major Google Pigeon update a week or so before. Google basically told us they have nothing to say on this and likely will not provide future details on local search algorithm changes. - Google Learn More About Links With Publisher Images
Just when we think authorship and publisher is dead, because Google dropped author images back in June - we see signs of maybe rel=publisher making some headway... - Google Webmaster Tools Messages Shows Your Reconsideration Request Submissions
When you submit a reconsideration request, Google notifies you they received it with a blanket message in Google Webmaster Tools. Now, supposedly, Google will also show you a copy of your submission via the reconsideration request form... - Google News Publisher Center: Webmaster Tools For News Sites
Google Webmaster Tools already has special features for Google News publishers, like a separate view of the news indexing and processing details, as well as news specific errors... - Google & Apple Stores Merge?
Jason Morrison from Google snapped a picture of a store in Colombo, Sri Lanka where the sign says Google Store but one of the Os in the Google logo is of the Apple logo. Maybe Google and Apple retail
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Google Knowledge Graph listing incorrect inform, Google Webmaster Help
- WMT not found errors back again, WebmasterWorld
- change of address for 60 specific country TLDs migrated into one .com domain with country subfolders, Google Webmaster Help
