Daily Search Forum Recap: August 13, 2012

Aug 13, 2012 • 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:

DMCA Takedowns The Latest Google Search Quality Penalty
Late Friday, Google tried to quietly announce, in a transparent way, a new factor to be added to Google's search quality signals. The new factor is DMCA requests...
Google Search Quality Updates Returns
After missing the June search quality update, Google came back with a dual post in August for 86 updates in June and July. You can see the full list on the Google Search blog but here it is broken down by category...
Google Shuns Prayer Times Rich Snippet
About a year ago, Google added a new rich snippet for prayer times, so when you searched Google for prayer times in a specific location, Google would return some responses depending on the search results marked up with those prayer times...
Wikipedia Links Can Backfire?
As you know, Wikipedia nofollows all their external links, so links from Wikipedia should have no impact on your rankings - be it positive or negative. A WebmasterWorld thread have some SEOs disagreeing with that...
London Closing Ceremony & All Google Olympics Doodles
Today Google has their final logo for the Olympics, the London 2012 closing ceremony logo (aka Doodle). It is a nice basic Doodle but I wanted to share all the past logos from Google over the past couple weeks...
Google Pool Table: Google LA
I spotted this picture on Flickr, uploaded by well known photographer, Thomas Hawk. It is a picture of a Google Pool table with Google LA on it from a top down view.