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: March 5, 2010
Posted: March 5th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick
Tags: Search Forum Recap
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(Text) Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: March 5, 2010
Posted: March 5th, 2010, 1:40pm CET by rustybrick
Tags: Search Buzz RoundUp
I am still in Israel, so no video recap this week again, I apologize but here is the text alternative.
Google dropped SearchWiki for Starring search results, which makes me very happy. Yahoo celebrated it's 15th birthday. We posted the March Google webmaster report. Is there such a thing as a seven day indexing delay with Google? Google Webmaster Tools added better notifications, sharing capabilities, Sidewiki control, but had bugs with setting the crawl rate and verification through AdSense. Bing recommends validated HTML for better indexing and dislikes chain redirects. Google is showing "related commercial searches" in the AdWords spot. AdSense publishers from Brazil may not get paid this month. Google Maps has an avoid tolls feature that doesn't fully work every where. Google posted a Doodle for St Davids Day & Vivaldi. Finally, SMX West was this week and Keri and Brian did a great job with the excellent coverage. That was this past week at the Search Engine Roundtable.
Select Topics For This Past Week:
Google Search:
Yahoo News:
Google SEO:
- March 2010 Google Webmaster Report
- The Google 7 Day Index Delay?
- Google Webmaster Tools Bolsters Notifications & Eases Sharing
- Google Adds Sidewiki Control to Google Webmaster Tools
- .TV Domains Can't Set Crawl Rate in Google Webmaster Tools
- AdSense Data Link With Google Webmaster Tools Failure
Bing SEO:
- Bing Recommends W3C Compliant Code For Better Indexing
- Bing Doesn't Like Redirect Chains, No One Does Really
Google AdWords:
Google AdSense:
Google Maps:
Google Doodles:
SEM Industry:
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Google Adds Sidewiki Control to Google Webmaster Tools
Posted: March 5th, 2010, 12:58pm CET by rustybrick
Tags: Google Optimization
If you login to your verified web sites at Google Webmaster Tools and go to the "labs" section, you may notice a new feature to help you control your Sidewiki messages.
Here is a picture:
The feature basically let's you control the message you show to users who use that Google Sidewiki within the Google Toolbar. In the past, webmasters had to use the Google Toolbar to add a site owner message. Danny has a great article on how that worked at Search Engine Land.
Now this can be done directly in Google Webmaster Tools. I do not believe Google announced this feature yet.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld& DigitalPoint Forums.
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Google Maps Avoid Tolls Feature May Cost You
Posted: March 5th, 2010, 12:48pm CET by rustybrick
Tags: Other Google Topics
There are some reports at the Google Maps Help forum that the "avoid tolls" feature for Google Maps driving directions does not always work right.
The issue spans as far as Australia and as close as Pennsylvania.
Brian B., a Googler, from the Google Maps help forum said:
Just wanted to give an update here that there are folks looking into this "avoid tolls" issue, and I'll post an update here when there's a resolution.
I am not sure when or if it has been fixed, but at least Google is aware of it.
Forum discussion at Google Maps Help.
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The Google 7 Day Index Delay?
Posted: March 5th, 2010, 12:40pm CET by rustybrick
Tags: Google Optimization
There is a new Google theory going around, possibly a penalty or possibly a Google bug - no one is sure. There are a couple threads on the topic, one at HighRankings Forums and Google Webmaster Help.
In short, webmasters are claiming that they will post content and it would take seven full days for Google to index the content and rank it in the search engine. I can't seem to replicate this on any site that I run. But there are several webmasters complaining about the issue.
Is it possible that this type of behavior is some sort of penalty? Can it be a delay based on data center issues? Can it be an indexing bug on certain types of sites or code sets?
There are many examples of URLs and domains claiming they have this issue in the Google Webmaster Help thread.
So what do you think?
Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.
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.TV Domains Can't Set Crawl Rate in Google Webmaster Tools
Posted: March 5th, 2010, 12:27pm CET by rustybrick
Tags: Google Optimization
A Google Webmaster Help thread reports that there is an issue with some domains setting the crawl rate in Google Webmaster Tools.
The report came in from an owner of a .TV domain. The person said:
I have registered www.themediagroup.tv and themediagroup.tv with Webmaster tools and I want to change the crawl rate. But I keep getting an error 'Setting is restricted to root level domains only'.
JohnMu from Google confirmed the issue and said:
This looks like a bug -- thanks for bringing it up! If you want to change the crawl rate in the meantime, you can request the change through the problem-report form linked from the "learn more" text.
There is currently no ETA for a fix.
Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.
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AdSense Data Link With Google Webmaster Tools Failure
Posted: March 5th, 2010, 12:21pm CET by rustybrick
Tags: Google AdSense
A Google Webmaster Help thread has confirmed reports of an issue with authenticated your site via Google Webmaster Tools to allows AdSense's bot to crawl password protected sections of the web site.
One of the steps of authenticating AdSense to allow the AdSense crawler to access pages that are behind a login is to verify your site with Google Webmaster Tools. The data feed to pass over the authentication authorization between Webmaster Tools and AdSense was offline for a few days.
Dennis G. from the Google Webmaster team said:
Our data feed from Webmaster Tools to AdSense slowed down significantly for a few days. It's getting back to normal now; please try again, and post back here if it's not working by tomorrow. Sorry for the inconvenience.
We have not had any real confirmations from publishers that this has been fixed, but hopefully it has.
Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.
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SMX West 2010 Live Blogging Recap
Posted: March 5th, 2010, 12:14pm CET by rustybrick
Tags: Search Marketing Expo 2010 West
The past three days was three days filled with great SEO and SEM related content from the SMX West show. I am happy to say we had two outstanding and giving volunteer bloggers to help bring a piece of the show to you via this site.
Keri Morgret of Strike Models and Brian Ussery of Beu Blog spent a tremendous amount of time and energy live blogging the event. Please give them a huge thank you - and please also thank the SMX conference for allowing us to provide this coverage.
Here is a recap of the sessions we covered. I believe one of the sessions had a technical quirk where all the notes were some how lost, so I apologize.
- SMX West: Conversion Ninja Toolbox
- SMX West: Ask The SEOs
- SMX West: Analytics Action Plans
- SMX West: Ask The Search Engines
- SMX West: PPC Tune Up Clinic
- SMX West: Bringing SEO In House
- SMX West: Optimizing Your Content on YouTube
- SMX West: Free Ways to Market on Facebook
- SMX West: Paid Search Bullseye
- SMX West: The Current State Of Social Search
- SMX West: Supercharging your Descriptions with Sitelinks
- SMX West: Google's Personalized Search Revolution
- SMX West: Keyword Research: Beyond the Ordinary
- SMX West: Not Your Father's AdWords
- SMX West: Mobile Paid Search Ads
- SMX West: Keynote Conversation: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
Thanks Keri and Brain! See you at the next one!
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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 4, 2010
Posted: March 5th, 2010, 12:24am CET by rustybrick
Tags: Search Forum Recap
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.