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Search Engine Roundtable Jul 28 10 Google announced on the Google Webmaster Central blog that they will now send out notifications via Google Webmaster Tools for a spike in site crawl issues. The warnings are called SiteNotice and are sent out when Google sees a significant...
Full story... So Yahoo web search, the organic results, are now powered by Bing, Microsoft search. The next to fall is the paid search side of things.
Google showing maps and local listings in the pure organic web search results is nothing new. For example, the image below shows a search for [plumber 10010], NYC plumbers.
Honestly, this is one topic I really don't know too much about. Google lets your Geographic target for your web site in Google Webmaster Tools.
There is a weird Google bug with the cache feature. It seems to only impact home pages. For example, a search for this site in Google returns a Google search result of the home page (we aren't penalized yet): But.
A Google Places Help thread has a story of a person who bought a business from someone else. The issue is, that business has pretty bad reviews in Google Maps and since there will be new management, he wants to.
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.
There is an outstanding thread by Tedster, Ted Ulle, at WebmasterWorld. The topic is on too many newbie SEOs taking the SEO advice given on forums, blogs, news sites and here at face value.
Google announced they added a new filter that helps you find "specialized blogs" on any topic you can imagine.
Inc.com posted a really great article with a very catchy title. The title is a bit misleading, it reads How Google Cost Me $4 Million.
Figured I'd cover a third Google bug this morning. Yea, three, first was a Google Social Search bug, then a Google Places bug and now a bug with Google Merchant Center.