Daily Search Forum Recap: August 28, 2012

Aug 28, 2012 - 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:

  • Cutts & Mueller On PageRank Penalties & Selling Links
    Yesterday, both Matt Cutts and John Mueller of Google answered the same question on PageRank penalties for selling links without knowing the other answered them...
  • Googler: Don't Use business.txt Files
    One of the latest webmaster things floating around the web today is on the businesstxt file. It is based on the concept of a robots.txt file but is there to give business owners an easy way to give search engines and local search engines a way to discover the business address(es). Business...
  • Tablet Users Being Forced Into Google Mobile Interface
    A Google Web Search Help forum has several tablet users upset that they are being forced into a smartphone enabled mobile interface on their tablet devices. They want the full user experience...
  • Floppy Disk Google Logo
    Here is a picture of a Google logo made up of floppy disks pasted to a wall. I should put Googler, Richard Hay on my payroll. He is constantly posting public pictures of cool Google stuff.

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