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• July 21, 2009
• 15:00

  Daily Search Forum Recap: July 21, 2009

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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....

  
  

  
• 8:13

  82% Say We Should Name Some Google Updates

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  Less than a week ago, we polled our readers asking should search updates be named? Well, we have over a hundred responses now, so I thought I share them with you. Overall, 82% said we should name all or some...

  
  

  
• 8:03

  Poll: Will You Remove The NoFollow Attributes From Your Pages?

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  With the latest on how Google handles the nofollow attribute, I know of many webmasters who are removing them completely from their sites. Instead, they are either not linking out or linking out without the nofollow attribute added to the...

  
  

  
• 7:51

  Google News Drops RSS Buttons Due To Spam?

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  About a week ago, we reported the issues Google News was having with some RSS feeds. At that time, Google dropped the RSS links from the main Google News search pages. The question is why did they drop the feature?...

  
  

  
• 7:45

  Bing Geo-Targeting With Meta Language Tag

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  A Bing Community thread has one webmaster who had his meta language tag set to the UK and he paid for it. Supposedly, Microsoft's Bing plays close attention to that meta tag and in the case of Joomla, the default...

  
  

  
• 7:36

  Yahoo Tries Something Old, Launches New Home Page

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  I cannot tell you how many times I have reported that Yahoo has released a new home page in the almost 6 years of me covering search. I honestly cannot count the times I reported on this topic. From numerous...

  
  

  
• 7:26

  Rotating Google AdSense Unit Colors

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  Did you know that you don't need to set up an ad serving system, such as Google Ad Manager to rotate between various AdSense color palettes? I'll be honest and admit, I did not know about this feature until I...

  
  

  
• July 20, 2009
• 15:00

  Daily Search Forum Recap: July 20, 2009

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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....

  
  

  
• 8:01

  Formula To Determine How Competitive One Can Go in SEO

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  Jill Whalen started a fabulous thread at HighRankings Forums asking if there is any formula or calculation being used to figure out how competitive she or any SEO can go with a specific client. Jill explained that when it comes...

  
  

  
• 7:54

  Microsoft's Search Bot MSNBot 2 Adding Pound Signs to URLs?

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  A Bing thread has two complaints from webmasters on Microsoft's newish crawler, MSNBot 2. The bot, in some cases, might be adding a pound sign (#) to the end of the URLs. Now, this might not be the fault of...

  
  

  
• 7:41

  YouTube Testing 3D Videos (YT3D)

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  It appears that some time over the weekend, YouTube began experimenting with 3D videos. I spotted a thread at the YouTube Help forum about this, where Googler Pete said he developed this in his 20% time. He said he is...

  
  

  
• 7:31

  Google Picking Titles Incorrectly?

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  Last week, we asked if Google was picking titles from Google Maps? It turned out to not be the case. In fact, there has been a surprising number of people complaining about the titles Google is showing for a specific...

  
  

  
• 7:23

  Moon Landing Logos From Bing, YouTube But Not Google

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  40 years-ago today, on July 20, 1969, the United States's Apollo 11 mission, successfully landed a man on the moon. Some search engines, such as Microsoft's Bing and Google's YouTube have special logos for the day. Surprisingly, Google, Yahoo and...

  
  

  
• July 17, 2009
• 15:37

  Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: July 17, 2009

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  In this weeks search video recap, we unveil our new video opener, please tell us what you think. We also discuss the Google's second quarter earnings statement, recent Yahoo and Microsoft merger discussions and the Twitter scandal. Google updated their...

  
  

  
• 15:00

  Daily Search Forum Recap: July 17, 2009

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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....

  
  

  
• July 01, 2009
• 7:37

  How To Remove a Facebook Page in Google Search

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  A Google Webmaster Help thread has a searcher asking Google how they can remove a Facebook page from Google. The page has been deleted from Facebook, but it still shows up in the Google Cache. Googler, Wysz, gave the searcher...

  
  

  
• 7:26

  Google Reverses Adult/Porn Site Penalties

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  On Monday we reported that Google spanked the adult porn industry by penalizing many of the sites. There were many theories as to why those sites were penalized. It wasn't all the adult sites that were penalized but a nice...

  
  

  
• 7:20

  Google AdSense Australian Payments Not Being Issued

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  We have covered time and time again about Google having issues paying publishers in this country or that country. This time, Australians are suffering from now being paid on time. There are at least two threads with reports of the...

  
  

  
• 7:10

  Google's Support Forums Member Status Glitch

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  We rarely cover forum news about the forums themselves, so I figured I pull out one significant thing that happened in the forums over the past 24 hours that is really bothering some forum members. As you know, Google has...

  
  

  
• 7:04

  Get Ready For The Google AdWords API v2009

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  Yesterday Google announced the latest version of the AdWords API, version v2009. This is an upgrade from AdWords API 13 which was released in October 2008. There are major changes between v2009 and version 13 and Google wants you to...

  
  

  
• 6:57

  Example Of Google Penalty Email Over Hidden Text

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  A DigitalPoint Forum thread has a copy of a email sent to a webmaster for violating Google's webmaster guidelines. The email specifically shows the webmaster which guidelines they are breaking, in this case, hiding text. Here is a copy of...