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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 3, 2010

Posted: June 3rd, 2010, 11:00pm CEST 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.

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A WebmasterWorld thread has limited discussion on Yahoo. In the old days, when Yahoo made changes or if there were issues, there would have been a lot more activity, which makes my job hard to figure out if this is a bigger issue than it is. So I start with that, because I do not know if this impact a small number of sites or a nice amount of sites.

The thread has complaints from two different webmasters that Yahoo Search is going to the dogs. A long time senior member at WebmasterWorld said:

12 year old site authority in nitch went poof yesterday at about 4:30 pm. How I know looking at referrals from yahoo on a big term last one was that time. Site is gone still indexed but for all the main terms went poof.

And then a member since 2002 wrote:

On one site :
1. after a revamp of the site and 5 months of constant crawling all Y has to show for is 3 pages indexed, two of which are irrelevant to searchers
2. after several years of crawling the site Y stepped twice in my honeypot in the space of two weeks, go figure

It looks like Y has all but given up.

Clearly, these are two members who know their SEO and have been around for a long time.

We know Bing will ultimately take over Yahoo, so I probably shouldn't be covering this but I miss the old Yahoo.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

How To Move Your Company's Google Street View Image

Posted: June 3rd, 2010, 4:02pm CEST by rustybrick

Tags: Other Google Topics

Back in March 2010, Google announced a feature that wasn't covered too much. What happens if you have a street view image for your business listing in Google Maps that you are not happy about?

For example, one user complained in the Google Maps Help forum that his street view image shows graffiti on his building. He blamed Google for showing that as his company face on Google Maps.

Here is a picture:

The solution is fairly straightforward:

You go to the business on Google Maps, click on "more" and then click on "move marker":

Then a split screen will come up where you can move the marker on the Street Views:

That is how you move your street views image on Google for your business.

Forum discussion at Google Maps Help.

Share Your Google Home Page Custom Design

Posted: June 3rd, 2010, 3:37pm CEST by rustybrick

Tags: Google Search Engine

Playing catch up to Bing, which played catch up to Ask.com, Google launched a way for you to customize the background image of Google.com. So now, if you hate iGoogle but love Google.com, you can customize the background to your liking. Danny has some more history and details at Search Engine Land.

Google Blogoscoped Forums has users sharing their background images. I personally cannot share mine, because I personally do not see this feature yet - it should be rolled out in the U.S. fully today.

But here is a fancy one from TOMHTML:

Forum discussion at Google Blogoscoped Forums.

June 2010 Google Webmaster Report

Posted: June 3rd, 2010, 3:26pm CEST by rustybrick

Tags: Google PageRankSERP Updates

It is that time of the month again, and here is our June 2010 Google webmaster report based off a WebmasterWorld thread. As you can imagine, a lot of the talk is around the MayDay update but there is still some discussion around Google Caffeine. In addition, some webmasters are discussing new insight into how internal linking differs from the previous weights - again, speculation. Outside of that, that is what webmasters are mostly discussing.

Here are the highlighted Google related posts from the past month:

The last report we had was from April 2010 due to the significant MayDay discussion we had early on.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

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