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: Again, Social Signals Do Not Influence Your Ranking
We've covered the topic of social signals and Google way way too much. But since John Mueller of Google mentioned it in a hangout last week, I figured why not repeat what he said... - Watch The Google App Indexing Hangout
This morning at 6am EST, Google's Mariya Moeva, John Mueller and Krzysztof Muzyka (I believe that his last name)... - 36% Of Webmasters Told Google Their Web Sites Were Hacked
This month, Google's Webmaster team had a #nohack week, where they went through tons of information around hacking on the web... - Fetch as Google Adds Captcha Sometimes
Last week, Google has added a captcha to the Google Search Console, Fetch As Google feature. The captcha was triggered when you repeatedly ran the fetch and render function, over and over again. Last week, I saw the Google Captcha, I'm not a robot, right away... - Google Map Maker Expands To 45 Countries & United States
A couple weeks ago, Google opened up Google Map Maker again for the first time in a few months since they closed it down in May over embarrassing edits. A couple weeks ago, they opened editing with the new guidelines in Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, India... - Google House Heads To India
The Google India Google+ account shared a picture the other day of the Google House being set up somewhere in India. The Google House was also in the UK back in the day. I believe this is about prom
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- "Google "Views" goes offline & transfers to Google Maps now w/ Reviews/Photos tabs @mblumenthal @rustybrick http://t.co/GUchm4kM3L", Ryan Schilling on Twitter
- Better start claiming those Twitter accounts for your top keywords! http://t.co/R5VcoedeoG", Scott Redgate on Twitter
- Our final post in our #NoHacked campaign gives you steps to fix a site infected…, Google+ - Google Webmasters
- Community Member of the Week - leandrofm (08/26), AdWords Community
- Cool things you may not know you can do with Google http://ow.ly/Rk0IL, Google+
- It's Back to School Time - are your campaigns read..., AdWords Community
- Should support section of website be Indexed?, WebmasterWorld
- What to Do About Malicious 301 Redirects, WebmasterWorld
