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.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 22, 2009
Posted: May 22nd, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Search Forum Recap
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Color Red in the Google Toolbar PageRank Indicator
Posted: May 22nd, 2009, 4:02pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Google PageRankSERP Updates
A Google Webmasters Help thread asks, what does it mean when the Google Toolbar PageRank indicator is a red color, as opposed to green?
Here is a screen capture:
So what does that mean?
(1) Maybe this image was photoshoped
(2) Or maybe there is a plugin that makes the color red, instead of greenThis is a joke, but it caught my attention and I thought it would be nice to lighten things up a bit before the weekend.
Forum discussion at Google Webmasters Help.
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SEOs & Digg Like Oil & Water?
Posted: May 22nd, 2009, 3:54pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Social Search
A Sphinn thread has discussion around the topic of how much Digg might not like SEO sites or blogs.
Back when Digg was first getting started, SEOs flocked to it, as a way of driving traffic and ultimately links, to help promote the site in the search engines. In fact, this site was often features on Digg's home page, not because I gamed it or wanted the links, in fact, it often put stress on my server, which I didn't want. It was featured because, on occasion, we write something that is quality. The last time we were featured on the Digg home page was in June 2007 for a brief period until it was manually removed. Since then, hundreds of people submitted our content to Digg and none of it made it "hot."
Personally, I gave up caring. But there is no doubt, the Digg community doesn't like the SEO community. It is understandable and it is their community.
The Sphinn thread discusses some of those reasons.
Forum discussion at Sphinn.
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Mobile YouTube Experts: Share Your Skills With Others on Google
Posted: May 22nd, 2009, 3:49pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Other Google Topics
If you are a maven at YouTube and videos in the mobile space, you might be interested in a new Google Mobile Help thread.
Googler, Robin, said he and Google is looking for mobile YouTube experts to make help videos to be syndicated on the YouTube Help Channel for others to learn from. Robin said:
Help others out by making fun, creative, and informative videos that we can add to the YouTube mobile help center articles. Making videos of tips, instructions, and shortcuts makes everything easier to understand!
Check out more info here if you're interested: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=YouTubeHelp
So if you have the mobile video skill set, and want to help others, give it a try!
Forum discussion at Google Mobile Help.
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Yahoo Search Japan Update: US Update Soon?
Posted: May 22nd, 2009, 3:42pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Yahoo Search Optimization
The Yahoo Search Japan blog announced they are updating their index now. Perhaps this is a sign that Yahoo in the US will update soon as well. I am pretty sure that both indexes are mostly separate for the most part, I am not sure if it works the same way at Google, but I think it does at Yahoo.
A WebmasterWorld thread has a single post about the update. One person who tracks Yahoo Search Japan said "we're experiencing big move on SERP."
The translated announcement reads:
Yahoo! In search, Yahoo! Inc. UEBUSACHIENJIN has developed the "Yahoo! Search Technology (YST)" has upgraded the search algorithm.
Recently we reported Index Update, unlike a significant upgrade and will affect the behavior of search engine algorithms.
The last US Yahoo Search update we reported was a while ago in March 2009.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.