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:
- Details On The Google AdSense/Ad Buyer Exploit
As many of you know, Google confirmed an AdSense exploit where ad buyers were able to manipulate the ad platform to result in many AdSense publishers noticing a huge... - Test: Fetch As Google Stops At 10,000 Pixels
The other day, Google's John Mueller was asked by an SEO named Torben what the cut off was for the fetch as Google feature. John Mueller responded on Twitter that he knows there is a cut off but was not sure what the number was. So Torben tested it and came up with 10... - Live: Google Question & Answer Feature In Local Results
About a month ago, we reported Google was testing question and answer sections in the local results. I emailed Google about this three times, Google was radio silent about it... - Google Hotel Search Prominently Adds Number Of Hotel Results
Sergey Alakov shared a screen shot on Twitter of Google showing the number of the hotel results in your search in a very prominent way... - Google Adds Mobile Friendly Test In The Search Results
You can now search for [mobile friendly] in Google and Google will give you a box at the top of the page letting you test any URL to see if it is mobile friendly. Here is a screen shot: This is the same as the mobile friendly testing tool but directly in the search results page... - Many Noogler Hats On A Shelf
Here is a shelf filled with Noogle hats, these Noogle hats are what Nooglers, new Googlers, wear their week of orientation at the company. I guess this is the shelf where the Nooglers pick up their s
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Facebook "Watch" Video Could Earn Publishers Up To 55pct, WebmasterWorld
- I guess the "New" means it's fully rolled out. Or is it yet another test for Top Voted Tags... IDK @glenngabe @rustybrick https://t.co/G7CX5Rjdv6, Andreea Calin on Twitter
- Every time you write email in Gmail, you are using my code. I wrote it 10+ years ago as my first"real" job, not replaced yet. #WITBragDay, Julie Parent on Twitter
- @check_ca That's generally the direction we're headed; away from escaped-fragment snapshots, towards rendered URLs., John Mueller on Twitter
- President Lincoln no longer listed as a Republican, why?, Google Web Search Help
- Site in english does not show in hebrew search, Google Webmaster Help
