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: August 9, 2010
Posted: August 9th, 2010, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Search Forum Recap
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Google Adds Video Sitemaps Errors To Google Webmaster Tools
Posted: August 9th, 2010, 3:54pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Google Optimization
Google has been explaining to us recently that videos and video sitemaps will be something they are focusing a lot of effort on over the rest of this year. Matt Cutts has recommended SEOs focus a bit more on their video sitemaps efforts because of this change.
Over the weekend, Google has added a "Video Sitemaps" section under Google Webmaster Tools's "Lab" section. When you access it, it tells you:
Video Sitemaps Errors. We are constantly updating our data, so please keep checking back with us to make sure your sitemaps are healthy.
Currently, for all my Sitemap feeds in this report, I see "No information found." I honestly do not see how this differs from the "Sitemaps" under "Site configuration," where you can learn more about your Sitemaps errors there. But Google has added a special Video Sitemaps page to the Labs section for a reason.
What can we take away from this?
(1) Video Sitemaps are becoming more and more important.
(2) Something different will be shown here, compared to the Sitemaps section under Site configuration.Here is a picture of what I have:
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld& DigitalPoint Forums.
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Are Link Exchange Emails Dead?
Posted: August 9th, 2010, 3:45pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Link Building
The top of asking for links, is nothing new. We wrote about link exchanges dozens of times here, heck we know that Tuesday mornings is the best time to send them out to convince people to link to you.
But in 2010, are link exchanges emails still worth it? When you get a link exchange request, do you delete the email without looking? Do you bother reading link exchange emails? Do you bother replying? Do you send them out yourself?
Take our poll:
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A WebmasterWorld thread is having a debate on this topic now. Moderator, martinibuster, said:
Virtually ever link request I have received for at least the last six years has been useless trash. If I put a rule on my inbox to permanently delete any email with typical link request subject lines, I am confident I will not miss reading them.
Is it possible that we have reached the end of blind reciprocal link requests and it's time the industry stopped sending them?
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
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SEO Industry Buzzes On Demand Media's IPO
Posted: August 9th, 2010, 3:33pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Search Engine Industry News
The SEO industry is buzzing on the recent news that Demand Media has filed an IPO. Demand Media owns and runs online properties such as eHow, Trails.com, LiveStrong.com, GolfLink, AnswerBag, Cracked and more. They are significant in that their whole content business is around ranking well in the search results, primarily Google and primarily organically.
Danny Sullivan has the best write up on what this all means. Here are his takeaways, but read the whole analysis for why:
- Google Funds Big Chunk Of Demand Media
- The Importance (And Risk) Of SEO
- Search Sends Nearly 40% Of Traffic; Google Alone, 26% Or More
- Traffic Is Vulnerable To Algorithm Changes
- Mining Search Data, they mine the data to produce content
- They do domaining
A WebmasterWorld thread is discussing the news. Brett Tabke, the founder of WebmasterWorld, thinks these guys are genius SEOs:
What Rosenblatt and the crew have done is nothing short of genius in the SEO space. To qualify algorithmically and engineer daily content is freaking brilliant. To get it to rank and convert in the long tail is even bigger. No wonder everyone is so jealous of their success. They are the top SEO’s on the web. They are without a peer.
Another member asked, "I wonder if the recent google patent influenced the decision to IPO, or if they had already planned to?"
I doubt it.
In any event, this is one of those events that is somewhat historical for our industry.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
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Google Custom Search Engine Layout Chrome Bug
Posted: August 9th, 2010, 3:29pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Other Google Topics
A confirmed bug with the Google Custom Search Engine is being discussed at the Google Custom Search Help forum.
The bug appears when doing a search for a set promotion using a Google Custom Search Engine interface. What happens is the search results appear halfway down the page below the advertisements on the right.
This only occurs in Google Chrome, Google's browser.
Google said they are aware of the issue and they are working on a fix. Googler Prathap Reddy said:
We are aware of the issue. We are working on identifying a fix for this issue.
Forum discussion at Google Custom Search Help.