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: November 15, 2010
Posted: November 15th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick
Tags: Search Forum Recap
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Some Missing Google Maps Reviews Return
Posted: November 15th, 2010, 2:32pm CET by rustybrick
Tags: Other Google Topics
A week ago, we reported that more Google Map Reviews went missing. Google actually said, for some there is a bug but for many others, they likely won't return due to Google taking a "stronger stance against spam and other forms of abuse."
As of this weekend, some have been reporting their reviews are back.
We have two threads at Google Places Help with comments from local businesses.
One said:
As of yesterday afternoon the 10 missing reviews have returned. They went missing sometime early on Monday, 11/8 and I noticed that they had returned as of late yesterday afternoon, 11/10.
Googler, Cecelia replied to a thread saying:
Glad to know that many of the reviews have been restored. For those of you who are still having trouble responding, please know that I'm looking into this.
Thanks for the updates and examples.
With any step up in spam prevention, some non spam items will be hit. So feel free to let Google know so they can review them manually.
Forum discussion at Google Places Help.
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Google Merchant Center "Offer Too Big" Error
Posted: November 15th, 2010, 2:27pm CET by rustybrick
Tags: Google Optimization
Ronald from the Google Merchant Center team posted on a new error some merchants might see. The post is at the Google Merchant Center Help forum.
The new error is named "offer too big" and can occur when your feed has an "unusually high number of characters" that are not relevant to the product in the feed. Ronald explained:
In the last few days, some of you may have noticed a new error message in your data feed details page called "offer too big." This error message is for items which have unusually high number of characters and may contain javascript code, HTML, etc instead of relevant text. To resolve this issue, please remove the unnecessary text from your items and include only relevant information in the values of the attributes.
So if you get this error, you can fix it by dropping out any excess HTML or code from your feeds.
Forum discussion at Google Merchant Center Help.