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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 12, 2010

Posted: March 12th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 11, 2010

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 10, 2010

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 9, 2010

Posted: March 10th, 2010, 2:29am CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 8, 2010

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Google Help Forums To Change Member Ranking System

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 1:03pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: SEO Forum News
The Google Web Search Help, Google News Help & Google Merchant Center Help forums all are announcing new changes coming to how forum members are ranked in these forums.

Currently, the member titles or levels are from Level 1 to Level 4. Some users get special titles, such as top contributors and/or certified professionals, or even Googler's get a special label, labeling them as Googlers. I do not believe the labels will be changing, but the levels will.

Instead of the 4 levels, there will be 20 levels. Your level will increase based on"
- Posting an answer
- Having your answer selected as the "best answer"
- Having your post rated as helpful
- Rating a post (either as helpful or not)
- Correctly marking a question or answer as spam.
I believe the levels determine what rights you have in the forums. By rights, I mean, can the profile show an avatar? Can they have clickable links? Stuff like that. Each forum sets the rights per level themselves and how hard it is to reach a level as well. So while the Google News forum might be easier to get to a higher level, it might take longer to post a clickable link.

The levels are by forum, so if you have a Level 15 in the Google Webmaster forum, it doesn't mean you have the same level in the Google AdWords forum.

Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help, Google News Help & Google Merchant Center Help.
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 5, 2010

Posted: March 5th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 4, 2010

Posted: March 5th, 2010, 12:24am CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 3, 2010

Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 9:02pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 2, 2010

Posted: March 2nd, 2010, 9:30pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 1, 2010

Posted: March 1st, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 26, 2010

Posted: February 26th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 25, 2010

Posted: February 25th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 24, 2010

Posted: February 24th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 23, 2010

Posted: February 23rd, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 22, 2010

Posted: February 22nd, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 19, 2010

Posted: February 19th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 18, 2010

Posted: February 18th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 17, 2010

Posted: February 17th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 16, 2010

Posted: February 16th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 15, 2010

Posted: February 15th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 12, 2010

Posted: February 12th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 11, 2010

Posted: February 11th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 10, 2010

Posted: February 10th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 9, 2010

Posted: February 9th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 8, 2010

Posted: February 8th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 5, 2010

Posted: February 5th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 4, 2010

Posted: February 4th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 3, 2010

Posted: February 3rd, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 2, 2010

Posted: February 2nd, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 1, 2010

Posted: February 1st, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 29, 2010

Posted: January 29th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 28, 2010

Posted: January 28th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 27, 2010

Posted: January 27th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 26, 2010

Posted: January 26th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 25, 2010

Posted: January 25th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 22, 2010

Posted: January 22nd, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 21, 2010

Posted: January 21st, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 20, 2010

Posted: January 20th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 19, 2010

Posted: January 19th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 18, 2010

Posted: January 18th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 15, 2010

Posted: January 16th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 13, 2010

Posted: January 13th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 12, 2010

Posted: January 12th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 11, 2010

Posted: January 11th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 8, 2010

Posted: January 8th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 7, 2010

Posted: January 7th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 6, 2010

Posted: January 6th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 5, 2010

Posted: January 5th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 4, 2010

Posted: January 4th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 31, 2009

Posted: December 31st, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Sphinn Closes Submissions Over New Years Weekend

Posted: December 31st, 2009, 2:00pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: SEO Forum News

Sphinn announced they are closing the site to submissions from 5:00 pm PT on December 31st through about 9:00 am PT on Monday, January 4th.

Matt McGee, the Sphinn Editor, explained the reason for them taking down the submissions capability:

Over the Christmas weekend, we found that just about the only things being submitted to Sphinn were spam. Since we're expecting the New Year's weekend to be similar, we've decided to just turn the submission form off for a few days.

Also, it means - just relax - enjoy the down time and rest up for an awesome 2010! Easier said then done, eh?

Forum discussion at Sphinn.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 30, 2009

Posted: December 30th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 29, 2009

Posted: December 29th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 28, 2009

Posted: December 28th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 24, 2009

Posted: December 24th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 23, 2009

Posted: December 23rd, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 21, 2009

Posted: December 21st, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 18, 2009

Posted: December 18th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 17, 2009

Posted: December 17th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 16, 2009

Posted: December 16th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 15, 2009

Posted: December 15th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 14, 2009

Posted: December 14th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 11, 2009

Posted: December 11th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 10, 2009

Posted: December 10th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 8, 2009

Posted: December 9th, 2009, 12:30am CET by rustybrick

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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.
Tony Ruscoe, Popular SEM Personality, to Join Google

Posted: December 8th, 2009, 3:13pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: SEO Forum News

Tony Ruscoe, the co-editor at Google Blogoscoped has confirmed he will be joining the Google team next month. Tony has been writing at Google Blogoscoped since 2006, he has broken so many stories by digging deep into Google and finding tons of hidden treasures.

Tony is becoming a Googler in January 2010. He will be working in Google's London office as part of the Google Webmaster Team. He said he is not exactly sure what he will be working on at Google yet, but likely in the same role as JohnMu who also joined Google from the webmaster ranks back in August 2007. John has been a huge asset to the webmaster community before and even more so after joining Google.

Googlers are obviously delighted to have Tony join the team there. A Google Blogoscoped Forums thread has comments from Googlers. Matt Cutts said, "w00t! I'm so excited that you're joining Google. :) I can see it now: "Day 1: Clean up the home page a bit. Make sure it's smaller but validates. Day 2: ..." :)" JohnMu said:

Congratulations, Tony! I'm excited to see that you're coming aboard & really looking forward to catching you in London or perhaps on a visit to the Zuerich office :-).
Tom, if you have worked out how cloning works, I have a list of names ... :-)

Tony, the webmasters will miss you as being part of the team but I am sure we will all benefit more from you moving over to Google.

Forum discussion at Google Blogoscoped Forums.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 7, 2009

Posted: December 7th, 2009, 11:30pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 4, 2009

Posted: December 4th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 3, 2009

Posted: December 3rd, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 2, 2009

Posted: December 2nd, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Sphinn's New Editor, Matt McGee & Rob Kerry Steps Down

Posted: December 2nd, 2009, 2:45pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: SEO Forum News

Sphinn has a new News Editor, his name is Matt McGee, I am sure you have heard of him. Matt is a huge U2 fan, loves SEO (especially local SEO), he is the assignment editor at Search Engine Land and is now the new Sphinn News Editor. He replaces Rob Kerry who has been Sphinn's news editor for over two years now.

Both Rob and Matt are loved in the community. Rob promises in a Sphinn thread that he will continue to be active in the community. Rob said:

I'm sad to announce that I will be stepping down as Editor of Sphinn, as of today. I will however continue to take an active part in the Sphinn community and will stay on as part of the Moderator team.

Rob then announced Matt as his successor in another Sphinn thread:

Please join me in welcoming Sphinn's new Editor, Matt McGee. Matt is a familiar face to Sphinn, having already served as a Moderator and now moving up to manage the site overall.

Good to know Rob isn't going far! Best of luck Matt in the new role!

Forum discussion at Sphinn - Rob Leaving & Sphinn - Matt Joining.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 1, 2009

Posted: December 1st, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 30, 2009

Posted: November 30th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 27, 2009

Posted: November 27th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 25, 2009

Posted: November 25th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 20, 2009

Posted: November 20th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 19, 2009

Posted: November 19th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 18, 2009

Posted: November 18th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 17, 2009

Posted: November 17th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 16, 2009

Posted: November 16th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 13, 2009

Posted: November 13th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 12, 2009

Posted: November 13th, 2009, 1:18am CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 11, 2009

Posted: November 12th, 2009, 1:15am CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 10, 2009

Posted: November 11th, 2009, 1:15am CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 9, 2009

Posted: November 9th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 6, 2009

Posted: November 6th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 5, 2009

Posted: November 5th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Google's Matt Cutts Goes a Year Without Posting at WebmasterWorld

Posted: November 5th, 2009, 2:14pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: SEO Forum News

Google's Matt Cutts, the man who is incredibly responsible the idea of webmaster and search engine communication, has gone over a year without posting anything at WebmasterWorld.

His last post was on November 2, 2008 in a thread named Google.com SERP Changes - November 2008. His last post was in response to changes at Google, where Matt said "Nope, it wasn't a test, whitenight." Since then, we have covered monthly WebmasterWorld Google related threads on these topics, including the November 2009 report.

Of course, Matt is incredibly involved in webmaster communication. He is active on his blog, he publishes daily videos over here, writes at the Google Webmaster Blog and lives at conferences all year round.

Speaking of which, GoogleGuy's last post at WebmasterWorld was on July 24, 2008.

We miss the Google search folks at WebmasterWorld - I believe that is where this concept mostly got its start?
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 4, 2009

Posted: November 4th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 3, 2009

Posted: November 3rd, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Sphinn Comes Out of Beta

Posted: November 3rd, 2009, 2:21pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: SEO Forum News
Rob Kerry, Sphinn's administrator, announced Sphinn has finally come out of beta. Sphinn has moved off of their original software, started from scratch, improved the user experience, spam filtering and zapped most of the bugs since the launch of Sphinn 2.0 in July.

Sphinn dropped the "beta" badge from the logo:

Other changes include that moderators and administrators will more actively promote items to the home page, even before they become "hot." There is a new Sphinn paid members section which includes:
- Members-only Discussion Forum – a private Internet Marketing discussion area, closed off from the spiders, bots and outside world.
- Live Chat – don’t clutter up your Twitter feed, chat directly and instantly with other internet marketers in this private and specialist environment.
- Members Directory – Find and follow “the ones to watch” on Sphinn, with our searchable directory of Sphinn Members.
- Top Sphinners – Sort and filter our private league table of top Sphinners to add to your network.
- Member Banner – Show your support for Sphinn and the internet marketing community, with a Member’s banner displayed under your avatar.
Forum discussion at Sphinn.
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 2, 2009

Posted: November 2nd, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 30, 2009

Posted: October 30th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 29, 2009

Posted: October 29th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 28, 2009

Posted: October 28th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 27, 2009

Posted: October 27th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 26, 2009

Posted: October 26th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 23, 2009

Posted: October 23rd, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 22, 2009

Posted: October 22nd, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 21, 2009

Posted: October 21st, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 16, 2009

Posted: October 16th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 15, 2009

Posted: October 15th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 14, 2009

Posted: October 14th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 13, 2009

Posted: October 13th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 12, 2009

Posted: October 12th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 9, 2009

Posted: October 9th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 5, 2009

Posted: October 6th, 2009, 2:32am CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 2, 2009

Posted: October 2nd, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 1, 2009

Posted: October 1st, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 30, 2009

Posted: September 30th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 29, 2009

Posted: September 29th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
New Google Support Forums Turns One & Adds Profile Answers

Posted: September 29th, 2009, 4:51pm CEST by rustybrick

Tags: SEO Forum News

It has been just over a year since Google opened the new Google help forums. The official date seemed to be the Google Talkabout forum in September 25, 2008, but most Google services didn't move over until later. The Google Webmaster Help forum didn't move until December 2008 and the Google Reader forum didn't move until last week.

The forum received many updates since the launch. The most significant was the redesign last August. Today, I was told by Googler, JohnMu that one of my pet peeves of the forum has been resolved.

Now, Google support forum profiles have not just questions asked, but also answered posts. So if you leave answers on other people's threads, they are included in the profile of the user. There is no RSS feed yet, but this is a major benefit to me and helping me bring you some of the best discussions in these forums. For example, see JohnMu's profile and you will see both questions he started, plus threads he replied to (but did not start).

Forum discussion continued in the original welcome thread at Google Webmaster Help.
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 28, 2009

Posted: September 29th, 2009, 4:58am CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 25, 2009

Posted: September 25th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Google Reader Help Group Moves to New Forum Finally

Posted: September 25th, 2009, 3:51pm CEST by rustybrick

Tags: SEO Forum News

Just about a year ago, most Google help forums moved from the old Google Groups platform to a new platform. But not all have moved. The Google Reader group finally moved to the new platform a day or two ago.

I asked in a Google Reader Help thread, "what took so long?" The response from Roger from Google was "We liked our old group so much we had a hard time letting go! :)" Cute.

But there are other Google support groups still on the legacy system, including the AdWords API Group. I am not sure what the hold up is, but I don't know why they are staying in the old platform.

I assume most Google groups within Google have already moved, based on what I am tracking.

Google Reader, welcome to the new forum.

Forum discussion at Google Reader Help.
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 24, 2009

Posted: September 24th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Fake Yahoo Employees Trying to Pick Up SEM Clients in Forums?

Posted: September 24th, 2009, 4:12pm CEST by rustybrick

Tags: SEO Forum News
I spotted a weird thread at DigitalPoint Forums with a new member of the forum claiming to be a Yahoo employee. The person said, "My name is Matthew, I am a Yahoo! employee who works with advertisers on both the search and display side. I came across this forum and wanted to introduce myself."

What made me suspicious of this person were a few things:
- He said his email is newyorkysmaccountmanager@yahoo.com, but if he really worked for Yahoo, he likely would not list his email in the forum.
- Yahoo employees do not use @yahoo.com as their work email, they use @yahoo-inc.com as their work emails.
- Plus it seemed more like a sales pitch then a help post.
- Yahoo already has a rep in that forum
I have emailed Yahoo to confirm or deny this person's identity. I have not yet received a confirmation yet, but initial thoughts are that this person is not a real Yahoo employee. I will update this post and the thread when I get final confirmation from Yahoo.

So beware of fake search engine reps, in any forum, pretending to be from any company.

Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums.

Update: Yahoo has confirmed with me that this is not a real Yahoo employee.
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 23, 2009

Posted: September 23rd, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 22, 2009

Posted: September 22nd, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 21, 2009

Posted: September 21st, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 18, 2009

Posted: September 18th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 17, 2009

Posted: September 17th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 16, 2009

Posted: September 16th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 15, 2009

Posted: September 15th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 14, 2009

Posted: September 14th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 11, 2009

Posted: September 11th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 10, 2009

Posted: September 10th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 9, 2009

Posted: September 9th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 8, 2009

Posted: September 8th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 7, 2009

Posted: September 7th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 4, 2009

Posted: September 4th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 3, 2009

Posted: September 3rd, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 2, 2009

Posted: September 2nd, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 1, 2009

Posted: September 1st, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 31, 2009

Posted: August 31st, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 28, 2009

Posted: August 28th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 27, 2009

Posted: August 27th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 26, 2009

Posted: August 26th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 25, 2009

Posted: August 25th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 24, 2009

Posted: August 24th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 21, 2009

Posted: August 21st, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 20, 2009

Posted: August 20th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Why "SEO Experts" Get a Bad Rep from Newbies

Posted: August 20th, 2009, 3:54pm CEST by rustybrick

Tags: SEO Forum News

I follow tons and tons of threads on SEO, SEM, Google, etc. I have been doing this for just about six years. One thing I often see is that there are people who want quick answers to why they don't rank well or how they can become rich in days. When they don't get the answer they like, they rant on how unhelpful the "experts" in the field are.

A WebmasterWorld thread member, wheel, was very smart about his post. He initially posted a teaser saying, I built a site five years ago, did SEO for a month on it and it still ranks in the top ten for a competitive keyword with zero additional work. Of course, we all wanted to know how he did it and he strung us along. But that was part of his plan, his plan to get us listening so he can follow up and blast all us newbies. He said:

The secret is, there is no secret. There are two themes that run through this and all the other forums, for years. The first is, everyone's looking for the latest trick or secret to ranking. The second theme is all the experts (at least the ones that I read) tell us to forget the glitter and develop proper backlinks.
And people repeatedly don't like the answers from the experts - to forget the glitter and develop proper backlinks. We want a quick technical answer. We don't want to hear what basically means 'try working hard yourself'. The experts actually aren't holding back some big secret or the latest trick. They ARE telling you directly and specifically what to do. Hard work marketing your website is what gives high long term rankings, not some technical gimmick.

It is true - SEO, money, happiness, etc, doesn't come easy - it requires work. Wheel, did explain how he got the site and his other sites to succeed in the search results, but it wasn't over night and it took work. For more on how he did it, read the thread and get to work.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 19, 2009

Posted: August 19th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 17, 2009

Posted: August 17th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 14, 2009

Posted: August 14th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 13, 2009

Posted: August 14th, 2009, 12:15am CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 12, 2009

Posted: August 13th, 2009, 2:00am CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 4, 2009

Posted: August 4th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 3, 2009

Posted: August 3rd, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 31, 2009

Posted: July 31st, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 24, 2009

Posted: July 24th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 23, 2009

Posted: July 23rd, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 22, 2009

Posted: July 22nd, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 21, 2009

Posted: July 21st, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 20, 2009

Posted: July 20th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 17, 2009

Posted: July 17th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 16, 2009

Posted: July 16th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 15, 2009

Posted: July 15th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 14, 2009

Posted: July 14th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Sphinn 2.0 Launches On Two Year Anniversary

Posted: July 14th, 2009, 3:38pm CEST by rustybrick

Tags: SEO Forum News
A day after Sphinn's two year birthday, that is right, Sphinn was launched on July 12, 2007, version 2.0 of Sphinn was pushed live. Sphinn is the social forum-like site where SEOs and SEMs can submit stories or discussions, members can then vote and comment on those stores. It is a fairly popular site and it is pretty fun to use.

The Sphinn Blog has the details on version 2.0 of Sphinn. Here are the main points:
- New, cleaner look
- Much improved moderation and spam controls
- The removal of the “Discussion” option for submissions
- My Network – Friend and follow the people you like
- "Show Me" Filters – Only show submissions from My Network, or your favourite categories
- Subscribe/Unsubcribe to stories that you’re interested in, with email notifications
- Save stories that you enjoyed or want to come back to
- My Sphinn – A one-stop dashboard for your network, important topics and an expanding list of blog content
Also coming soon, but not yet live, are Private Discussions, Live Chat and a Members-Only directory.

Here is a picture of Sphinn soon after it first launched in 2007:

Here is Sphinn 2.0:

Happy Birthday Sphinn!

Forum discussion at Sphinn.
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 13, 2009

Posted: July 13th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 10, 2009

Posted: July 10th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 9, 2009

Posted: July 9th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 8, 2009

Posted: July 8th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 7, 2009

Posted: July 7th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 6, 2009

Posted: July 6th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 2, 2009

Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 1, 2009

Posted: July 1st, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Google's Support Forums Member Status Glitch

Posted: July 1st, 2009, 3:10pm CEST by rustybrick

Tags: SEO Forum News

We rarely cover forum news about the forums themselves, so I figured I pull out one significant thing that happened in the forums over the past 24 hours that is really bothering some forum members. As you know, Google has newish help forums, which launched in October.

In the forums, each member is assigned a "level," which shows other members how active (helpful) a member is in a specific forum. The levels go from 1 to at least 5 and then there are "Top Contributors" who are assigned that status manually by the Googlers who manage the respective forums. Each forum has their own weights to determine the number of posts required to reach a new level.

In any event, over the past twenty-four hours, it seems like some member profiles were demoted from a high level, down to a level one. There are threads about this in virtually every Google help forum.

I figured I would highlight one thread, the one in the Google Webmaster Help where you have several members complaining about the bug. JohnMu of Google confirmed the bug and said:

Hi everyone,
We're still working on a fix, so those who are not Bionics will have to wait a little bit, sorry! I'll post more when I have it!

For what it's worth, this will not affect your site's crawling, indexing or ranking in Google. Nor it's PageRank. Just so you know :-)

John

I just find it so funny, because most people are worried about their Google PageRank. In this thread, they are more worried about their Google forum level rank then anything else. Good times.

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 30, 2009

Posted: June 30th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 29, 2009

Posted: June 29th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 26, 2009

Posted: June 26th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 25, 2009

Posted: June 25th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 23, 2009

Posted: June 23rd, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 22, 2009

Posted: June 22nd, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 19, 2009

Posted: June 19th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 18, 2009

Posted: June 18th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 17, 2009

Posted: June 17th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 16, 2009

Posted: June 16th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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. Note, I am not feeling well, so I am sorry for the little coverage today. There was a lot more I wanted to write, so it will have to wait.
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 12, 2009

Posted: June 12th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 11, 2009

Posted: June 11th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 10, 2009

Posted: June 10th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 5, 2009

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 11:03pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 4, 2009

Posted: June 4th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 3, 2009

Posted: June 3rd, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 2, 2009

Posted: June 2nd, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 1, 2009

Posted: June 1st, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 29, 2009

Posted: May 29th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 28, 2009

Posted: May 28th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 27, 2009

Posted: May 27th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 26, 2009

Posted: May 26th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 25, 2009

Posted: May 25th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 22, 2009

Posted: May 22nd, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 21, 2009

Posted: May 21st, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 20, 2009

Posted: May 20th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 19, 2009

Posted: May 19th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 18, 2009

Posted: May 18th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Google AdSense Advisor Heads to Barbados for Vacation

Posted: May 18th, 2009, 8:30pm CEST by rustybrick

Tags: SEO Forum News

I love it how personal some people are in the SEO/SEM forums. It reminds me of the old days when the forums were like extended family for most of us. It many cases, that is still true, but as the industry has grown, we feel less of that.

Case in points, a Googler, AdSenseAdvisor in WebmasterWorld first tells us that he/she will be on vacation for a week and there will be a fill in during that time. Here is the post:

I'm taking some vacation next week, so I'll be away from Webmaster World 5/16-5/25. I have someone covering for me if you need anything in my absence, but I wanted to give you a heads up in case you notice a significant drop in snark compared to your usual ASA. :)

Later on, he/she tells us that the vacation is in Barbados. Just reading the back and forth in the thread, reminds me of how forums should be.

In any event, enjoy your trip AdSenseAdvisor, we will miss you - but you deserve the time off.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 14, 2009

Posted: May 14th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 13, 2009

Posted: May 13th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 12, 2009

Posted: May 12th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 11, 2009

Posted: May 11th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 8, 2009

Posted: May 8th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 7, 2009

Posted: May 7th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 6, 2009

Posted: May 6th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 5, 2009

Posted: May 5th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 4, 2009

Posted: May 4th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 1, 2009

Posted: May 1st, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 30, 2009

Posted: April 30th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 29, 2009

Posted: April 29th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 28, 2009

Posted: April 28th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 27, 2009

Posted: April 27th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 24, 2009

Posted: April 24th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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Optimizing Sites For Search Engines For 10 Years

Posted: April 24th, 2009, 3:52pm CEST by rustybrick

Tags: SEO Forum News

There aren't many people out there that can say they have been in the SEO industry and optimizing sites for search engines since 1999. But there are probably a hundred or so people who can say that. Personally, I joined the "SEO industry" in 2002 (been in the internet industry since 1995), what is known as the second wave of personalities who joined the industry. Danny Sullivan, Chris Sherman, Daron Babin, Greg Boser (I better stop naming names before I insult people) were part of the first wave - people who were in the industry before it may have been known as SEO.

That being said, a YouMoz post named SEO Since 1999 takes you through the history of one quiet SEO, who was optimizing sites for ten plus years. Can you imagine? In any event, this write up should interest anyone who loves the industry.

Here is the introductory paragraph:

Monday, April 20th, 2009: Today I celebrate the completion of my first decade in search. I have been waiting for this day with some trepidation for the past 6 months or so. I am not really sure why or even what this anniversary really means. Does it mean that I am some sort of expert? Well, anything is possible. Or does it mean that I have wasted the past decade with little to show in an industry that my friends and family can hardly even understand? Hmm, I hope not. In truth, it means I not only have a job that I like, but a career that I love.

Forum discussion at Sphinn.
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 23, 2009

Posted: April 23rd, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 22, 2009

Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 21, 2009

Posted: April 21st, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 20, 2009

Posted: April 20th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 15, 16 & 17, 2009

Posted: April 17th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 14, 2009

Posted: April 14th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 9, 10 & 13, 2009

Posted: April 13th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 8, 2009

Posted: April 8th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 7, 2009

Posted: April 7th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 3, 2009

Posted: April 3rd, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 2, 2009

Posted: April 2nd, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 1, 2009

Posted: April 1st, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 31, 2009

Posted: March 31st, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 30, 2009

Posted: March 30th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 26, 2009

Posted: March 26th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 25, 2009

Posted: March 25th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 24, 2009

Posted: March 24th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 23, 2009

Posted: March 23rd, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 20, 2009

Posted: March 20th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 19, 2009

Posted: March 19th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 18, 2009

Posted: March 18th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 17, 2009

Posted: March 17th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 16, 2009

Posted: March 16th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 13, 2009

Posted: March 13th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 12, 2009

Posted: March 12th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 11, 2009

Posted: March 11th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 10, 2009

Posted: March 10th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 9, 2009

Posted: March 9th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 6, 2009

Posted: March 6th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 4, 2009

Posted: March 4th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 3, 2009

Posted: March 3rd, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 2, 2009

Posted: March 2nd, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 27, 2009

Posted: February 27th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 26, 2009

Posted: February 26th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 25, 2009

Posted: February 25th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 24, 2009

Posted: February 24th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 23, 2009

Posted: February 23rd, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Posted: February 14th, 2009, 9:11pm CET by varunkrish

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 13, 2009

Posted: February 13th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 12, 2009

Posted: February 13th, 2009, 12:27am CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 11, 2009

Posted: February 12th, 2009, 2:15am CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 10, 2009

Posted: February 11th, 2009, 2:29am CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 4, 2009

Posted: February 4th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 3, 2009

Posted: February 3rd, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 2, 2009

Posted: February 2nd, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 30, 2009

Posted: January 30th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 29, 2009

Posted: January 29th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 28, 2009

Posted: January 28th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 27, 2009

Posted: January 27th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 21, 2009

Posted: January 21st, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 20, 2009

Posted: January 20th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 14, 2009

Posted: January 14th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 13, 2009

Posted: January 13th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 12, 2009

Posted: January 12th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 9, 2009

Posted: January 9th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 8, 2009

Posted: January 8th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 6, 2009

Posted: January 6th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 5, 2009

Posted: January 5th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 5, 2009

Posted: January 5th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 2, 2009

Posted: January 2nd, 2009, 10:00pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 2, 2009

Posted: January 2nd, 2009, 10:00pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 31, 2008

Posted: December 31st, 2008, 10:00pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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Google Webmaster Helps Tries Live Lively Event, Before Lively Shuts Down

Posted: December 31st, 2008, 2:15pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: SEO Forum News

Googler, JohnMu, suggested in a Google Webmaster Help thread that they give Google's Lively, Google's failed attempt at a SecondLife virtual world, a shot before it closes down.

Yesterday, John posted a thread announcing an "Informal End Of Year live-chat over at Lively." I missed it, and so did most people. In fact, I don't think it actually worked.

Looking over the thread, it seems like the event really never happened. I did see a chat room URL in there, but I don't see it anymore. So it seems like the Lively event, wasn't too lively. But it was a great idea to give Google's Lively a last whirl.

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 30, 2008

Posted: December 30th, 2008, 10:00pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 26, 2008

Posted: December 26th, 2008, 10:00pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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Daily Search Forum Recap: Decmeber 24, 2008

Posted: December 24th, 2008, 10:00pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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Letting of Newbie SEO Steam at Google Webmaster Help Groups

Posted: December 24th, 2008, 2:16pm CET by rustybrick

Tags: SEO Forum News

I see them every day, the newbie SEO post. Almost every SEO goes through it at one point. They ask a newbie question and people in the industry are nice enough to answer it. Some mock others, but overwhelming, the community responds in good kind.

I spotted a thread at the Google Webmaster Help discussion forum, where long time members are letting off steam. In short, one member writes this long post mocking, with extreme sarcasm, some of the posts he typically sees in the forum. Of course he put in a lot of exaggeration into his post, which makes it incredibly funny.

Here is a brief snippet of just part of his post, where he asks like a person seeking Google webmaster help:

My friend, who's cousin Nora, once went out with someone who's brother built the stand at Seomoz said he heard someone saying that they oveheard someone else saying that Mattt Cutts said Google are going to stop indexing websites with less than 20 pages, is this true?

A while back, I installed the seo for lemons plug in on my blog, which might have helped, so I also added the seo made ez tool, the get google by the balls widget, the mega meta tag generator and the google number one blaster. The only hitch is that my home page now has 5 titles, 10 description tags, 7128 keywords, 233 h1 tags and 300 outbound links to the tool makers sites. This was so heavy, I had to remove all the actual content, do you think this will matter?

It goes on and on and it pretty funny if you are an active forum goer. It might insult some people, but I assume these folks who reply to twenty questions per day just need to let off some steam some time.

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 23, 2008

Posted: December 23rd, 2008, 10:03pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 22, 2008

Posted: December 22nd, 2008, 10:00pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 18, 2008

Posted: December 18th, 2008, 10:00pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 17, 2008

Posted: December 17th, 2008, 10:00pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 16, 2008

Posted: December 16th, 2008, 9:32pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 12, 2008

Posted: December 12th, 2008, 10:00pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 11, 2008

Posted: December 11th, 2008, 10:00pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 8, 2008

Posted: December 8th, 2008, 10:00pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 5, 2008

Posted: December 5th, 2008, 10:00pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 4, 2008

Posted: December 4th, 2008, 10:00pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 26, 2008

Posted: November 26th, 2008, 10:00pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 25, 2008

Posted: November 25th, 2008, 10:00pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 20, 2008

Posted: November 20th, 2008, 10:00pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 19, 2008

Posted: November 19th, 2008, 10:00pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 17, 2008

Posted: November 17th, 2008, 10:00pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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.
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 14, 2008

Posted: November 14th, 2008, 10:00pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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.
Weekly Search Buzz RoundUp - 11/14/08: Great PubCon Keynotes, Liveblogging Dispute & Veteran's Day

Posted: November 14th, 2008, 6:30pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

Tags: Search Forum Recap

Guess what? The "con" part of PubCon is over and the guys are preparing to head to the pub later today. But alas, I'm back in New York -- like Barry, I took the red-eye. It's 11AM EDT (or 8AM, whatever) and I'm all confused about where I am and how I got here. But moving on...

PubCon Keynotes Rocked
I had the pleasure to liveblog the George Wright keynote at Pubcon. He talks about how, with a $50 budget, he made a viral phenomenon. It's pretty impressive to hear that kind of reinforcement when you have business objectives, don't you think?

The following day, we liveblogged Satya Nadella of Microsoft. They launched Project Silk Road, an API that looks pretty promising.

I'm Not Giving Up Liveblogging, Even if Barry Says I Should
There's a jerk on the Internet who wanted to get attention, so he blogged that we should stop liveblogging because our reporting is inaccurate. Then he says that he's upset because he has "liveblogged erroneously." Well, sorry that you suck at liveblogging, John, but that doesn't mean you have to attack two of the greatest livebloggers this industry has ever had. Meanwhile, the blog post that this John dude wrote evoked some heavy emotions and Barry is running a poll. Should we stop liveblogging? Answer us. And if you say "yes," identify yourself with a comment on the thread so that we livebloggers can burn you in effigy.

Why is Google Using Blog Comments--and Not Public Forums--to Communicate with Webmasters?
Do you find it annoying when you report a problem on a blog post and Google chooses to respond on the blog and not in an "official" channel? Does it irk you that Google doesn't appear to use its own internal blogs to communicate these "bugs" or observations with the rest of the community? To some, it does. But for Google, it makes a lot of sense. Why should they worry an entire webmaster community if only some people are being impacted? What does this mean for you? Keep being active in the blogs, baby!

Google
Finally, after all this time, Google has finally released an SEO guide. It's a 22-page PDF with all this useful information, or so I hear (no, I didn't read it yet either). Now when is Google going to talk about linking?

Googlebot Won't Answer Your Calls if You Ignore Him
I have no idea why someone would block Googlebot and then realize later that this was a stupid decision and try to reinvite Googlebot back into his life. However, some guy does want to do that. How do you tell Googlebot to crawl your site again? The idea is to send signals to Google that you're interested in reigniting that flame: get more links, submit a sitemap, and whatever else you can do to call your site to Google's attention.

YouTube Sponsored Ads Broken
Isn't it nice when YouTube launches a new feature but it doesn't actually, erm, work? Barry tried to play with YouTube sponsored ads and got an internal error. What gives? (I think it has something to do with a Mac.)

Deleting Your Google Sitelinks May Not Remove them from Google
Apparently, a webmaster has discovered a bug in Google. When deleting his sitelinks, a webmaster realized that Google kept them intact. Five days later, the deleted sitelinks are still listed on the search engine. Hrm.

Argentina Doesn't Honor Free Speech
It sucks if you're living in Argentina and want to learn about a prominent figure. It seems that Argentina prefers censorship rather than allowing content to be discovered. Search engines were forced to comply with this legal measure, and well, I'm glad I live in America.

Veteran's Day Comes and Goes
With PubCon in our faces, many forgot that we celebrated Veteran's Day on Tuesday. Google forgot to honor people in the Coast Guard and eventually updated their logo. Dogpile and Yahoo joined in the fun too. Of course, so did we!

No Video on Sunday
Barry got a new MacBook Pro and I think he wants to play with it instead of making our video for Sunday. You'll just have to wait for him next week (sorry Sam!)

Daily Search Forum Recap: November 13, 2008

Posted: November 14th, 2008, 2:23am 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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: November 6, 2008

Posted: November 6th, 2008, 10:00pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: November 5, 2008

Posted: November 5th, 2008, 10:00pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: November 3, 2008

Posted: November 3rd, 2008, 10:00pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: October 31, 2008

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 10:00pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Weekly Search Forum Recap - October 31, 2008: Halloween in Search, Google Alerts Available via RSS & Questionable Political Endorsement

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 5:43pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

Tags: Search Forum Recap

Happy Halloween! The year is almost over, we're celebrating the spooky holiday, US elections are next week, and you're reading this. High five!

Halloween Hits the Search Industry
Today, you can check out the various Halloween logos around the search industry and see that many are happily celebrating. I noticed on Twitter last night that most people weren't too thrilled with Google's logo. (What do you think?)

Your CTR Will Impact Your Quality Score
Higher results in the SERPs usually get more clickthroughs than lower ones. Right? It makes logical sense. Google has decided that it will take ad position into account for the quality score, so you don't get penalized if you are in position 13 and aren't getting lots of clicks. This has always been the case but for some reason Google AdWords sent out emails to some AdWords advertisers about more precise calculations; perhaps that's what it is.

Subscribe to Google Alerts via RSS
Annoyed at all the Google Alerts you get in your inbox? Sometimes, I am. Subscribe to your alerts via RSS instead, then. You can check those alerts at leisure instead of feeling like you are obligated to read the email as soon as it hits your inbox (especially if you have email OCD).

PDF + OCR = Copy and Paste
Google has made it easier to copy and paste PDF files using OCR technology. Fortunately, if you wanted to plagiarize copy get inspiration from a PDF document, you can now just highlight the text, hit Ctrl C, and viola, it's in your clipboard!

Google Doesn't Know the Exchange Rate
You'd think Google, with all its information, is able to actually know the darn exchange rate and not screw it up hundreds of times. Well, you'd think wrong. Google has screwed up the exchange rate for Indian publishers -- AGAIN. Don't you get it, Google?

Google AdSense Ads Testing New Formats
Want to save big in this crappy economy? Get your Google AdSense coupons today! I wonder how many people will click on this -- probably a lot, don't you think?

Similarly, we observe a new Google AdSense ad style. I'm not sure I am swayed by the design.

Google AdWords Editor Continues to Be Annoying
There have been reports of slowness in Google AdWords Editor for a long time. There are also other issues being reported on forums about the new Google AdWords Editor. Google has released a fix, and that's great.

Google AdWords Accounts Hacked by Chinese
Sometimes, I wish we had a unified front in terms of policies relating to accessing domains that are abroad, because when Google AdWords accounts are hacked and you see the Chinese capitalizing off of the spam, you wonder if there's a way to beat up those pesky brats who are living abroad. Seriously.

Microsoft adCenter Changes Logo, Gets New Features
This week, we note upgrades in Microsoft adCenter that include improvements for campaign management, editorial improvements, user management, and content ads. They also sport a new logo that some people say looks like a drain. Well, if you insist...

Sadly, not everything is dandy for adCenter. Perhaps they don't have enough members to demand Sunday service, and thus, they've dropped Sunday support. There are other options if you are busy on Sunday, I suppose.

Google's Webmaster Chat Recap Live
So you're a Jewish chap and missed the Google Webmaster Chat like Barry and me since it was held during a Jewish holiday. Great! The recap is live and you can hear what you missed.

Jonathan Simon to the Rescue
We posted about lots of bugs in Google Webmaster Tools and Googler Jonathan Simon has given some good insights into what Google is working on. I have to say that the Google Webmaster Tools team rocks! GO JONATHAN GO!

Church SEO is Possible
So, you need religious links to your site. Is it hard? Not so much. Church SEO is a new discipline that helps non-profits gain fame in their communities. You can try it and you, too, can succeed.

Google CEO Makes Political Endorsement
We're running a poll on whether it was appropriate for Eric Schmidt to endorse Barack Obama. With all the information Google is armed with, what do you think?

Jeeves Retires, Becomes a Porn Star
Remember Jeeves? Sure you do. Well, did you know that he retired and became a porn star? If you link to his retirement website, you'll notice that he is. In fact, it makes sense in the bigger picture. In this economy, retirement funds are pretty lousy. You need to make supplemental income somehow.

Have a happy autumny weekend!

Daily Search Forum Recap: October 30, 2008

Posted: October 30th, 2008, 10:00pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: October 29, 2008

Posted: October 29th, 2008, 10:00pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: October 28, 2008

Posted: October 28th, 2008, 10:00pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: October 27, 2008

Posted: October 27th, 2008, 10:00pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: October 24, 2008

Posted: October 24th, 2008, 11:00pm CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: October 23, 2008

Posted: October 23rd, 2008, 11:00pm CEST by Tamar Weinberg

Tags: Search Forum Recap

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, yesterday, and the day before, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Daily Search Forum Recap: October 17, 2008

Posted: October 18th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: October 16, 2008

Posted: October 16th, 2008, 11:58pm CEST by Tamar Weinberg

Tags: Search Forum Recap

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, yesterday, and Tuesday, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Daily Search Forum Recap: October 13, 2008

Posted: October 14th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: October 10, 2008

Posted: October 11th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: October 8, 2008

Posted: October 8th, 2008, 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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: October 7, 2008

Posted: October 8th, 2008, 2:52am 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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: October 6, 2008

Posted: October 6th, 2008, 11:51pm 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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: October 2, 2008

Posted: October 3rd, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

Tags: Search Forum Recap

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, yesterday, and Tuesday, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Daily Search Forum Recap: September 29, 2008

Posted: September 30th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: September 26, 2008

Posted: September 27th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: September 25, 2008

Posted: September 26th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: September 18, 2008

Posted: September 19th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: September 17, 2008

Posted: September 18th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: September 16, 2008

Posted: September 17th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: September 15, 2008

Posted: September 16th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: September 11, 2008

Posted: September 12th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: September 10, 2008

Posted: September 11th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: September 4, 2008

Posted: September 5th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: September 3, 2008

Posted: September 4th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: September 2, 2008

Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 12:00am 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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: September 1, 2008

Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: August 29, 2008

Posted: August 30th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: August 28, 2008

Posted: August 29th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: August 27, 2008

Posted: August 28th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: August 22, 2008

Posted: August 23rd, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: August 21, 2008

Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: August 15, 2008

Posted: August 16th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: August 14, 2008

Posted: August 15th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: August 13, 2008

Posted: August 14th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: August 11, 2008

Posted: August 12th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: August 8, 2008

Posted: August 9th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: August 7, 2008

Posted: August 8th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: August 5, 2008

Posted: August 6th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: August 1, 2008

Posted: August 2nd, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

High Rankings Forum Turns Five Years Old

Posted: August 1st, 2008, 5:15pm CEST by Tamar Weinberg

Tags: SEO Forum News

Today, we'd like to celebrate a few birthdays. First of all, click on Search Engine Roundtable's link for the one that everyone and their pet fish has heard about. But, on a note possibly closer to home, Jill Whalen reports on High Rankings Forums that it's their fifth birthday!

Happy Birthday, Jill, and the High Rankings folks!

Forum discussion continues at High Rankings Forums.

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how to seo an forum

Posted: August 1st, 2008, 1:08pm CEST by jimcallender

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 31, 2008

Posted: August 1st, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 24, 2008

Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 23, 2008

Posted: July 24th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 18, 2008

Posted: July 19th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 17, 2008

Posted: July 18th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 16, 2008

Posted: July 17th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

YahooSarah Goes MIA - Blame Yahoo Publisher Network?

Posted: July 16th, 2008, 2:45pm CEST by rustybrick

Tags: SEO Forum News

Yahoo has been having a rough time over the course of the past several months. But that doesn't mean the company stops working and competing, at least that is what you would think.

YahooSarah, the official Yahoo representative at WebmasterWorld, has not posted a response at WebmasterWorld in exactly a year from today. YahooSarah's last post was in a thread named Publisher broken? on July 16, 2007 at 3:50 pm (EST). She said:

I wanted to chime in briefly to let you know that we are aware of the problems you are experiencing and are working to resolve as soon as possible. Apologies for the inconvenience.
I'll post again when I can confirm that we have resolution.

But not post came after that. Yes, YPN was fixed, but no confirmation from Yahoo was received - even a year later.

Yes, we still have YahooPete posting in the forums. His last post was about three weeks ago. But YahooPete is responsible for Yahoo Search Marketing topics, while YahooSarah is responsible for Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) topics. Maybe YPN is dead and there is no need for YahooSarah's posts?

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 15, 2008

Posted: July 16th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 11, 2008

Posted: July 12th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Social News and Discussion Site Sphinn Turns One Year Old

Posted: July 11th, 2008, 4:11pm CEST by Tamar Weinberg

Tags: SEO Forum News

Last year, the internet marketing and forum discussion site, Sphinn, was launched. Today, it's one of the hottest forums around and we post a lot of discussion from it here at Search Engine Roundtable.

So how's your stay at Sphinn been so far? For many, the Sphinn community is vibrant, active, and incredibly awesome. And the news shared within the site is top notch. If you've waited a year to sign up, your wait better be over. There's really good stuff there!

Forum discussion continues at Sphinn.

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 10, 2008

Posted: July 11th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 8, 2008

Posted: July 9th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 7, 2008

Posted: July 8th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 4, 2008

Posted: July 5th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 3, 2008

Posted: July 4th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 2, 2008

Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 1, 2008

Posted: July 2nd, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Search Engine Watch Forums Goes Offline: Hack? Server Issue?

Posted: July 1st, 2008, 1:45pm CEST by rustybrick

Tags: SEO Forum News

For the past few hours, Search Engine Watch Forums has been returning a server starter page from Red Hat Linux. It seems like many, if not all, the internal forums, such as the Google forum page are returning 404 not-found server status codes. A true shame to see.

Here is a picture of what I see when I go to SEW Forums:

I was emailed by a few concerned forum members, but I honestly don't know what is up. I suspect it is a server issue. It does not seem like a standard server hack. I think it might be database issues, because when I visited the main home page, I saw an error that read:

Error in page SQL statement
Tried 'SELECT * FROM pages WHERE name='sew_home''

But that is now gone and the home page is working fine.

I hope the forums come back soon, I am sure the team is working on it now.

Forum discussion is unavailable at this moment.

Update: Seems like we are back a couple hours later.

Daily Search Forum Recap: June 30, 2008

Posted: July 1st, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Plurk Brings Micro Forums, Like Twitter Brought Micro Blogging

Posted: June 30th, 2008, 3:53pm CEST by rustybrick

Tags: SEO Forum News

A few weeks ago, I joined Plurk to mess around with the newest social media buzz. After playing around with it for a few weeks, I have really grown to enjoy many of its addictive features. The main thing I want to explain is that Plurk feels to me like a micro-forums format. Just like Twitter is a micro-blogging system, Plurk is really a micro-discussion forums platform.

Plurk works where you can post a 140 character message (a plurk) and then other plurkers can respond to your plurks. The more active you are on Plurk (i.e. more responses and replies), the more "karma" you earn. As you earn Karma, you earn more privileges, such as unique profiles, more smilie options, stars near your names and so on. Those with a lot of Karma downplay Karma, those with a little Karma desire the additional Karma. That is how Plurk encourages participation.

But participation grows more from the discussion forum like feel of the network. While Twitter has @replies as a way to respond to a twitter, it is often hard to isolate the response with the specific twitter message. Plurk threads responses directly into a specific Plurk. Here is a picture of my timeline at a specific point in time:

As you can see, the timeline shows Plurks before or after my Plurk. To reply to a specific Plurk, you click on the message and it opens up. As you can see above, that specific Plurk has several responses (as annotated by the number at the right corner of that Plurk). You can see that specific Plurk page over here and can reply there as well.

As you can see, Plurk looks and feels more like a discussion forum then a blogging format. Limiting the Plurks to 140 characters, makes it the Twitter for discussion forums. In addition, you can create "cliques" within Plurk to subgroup your friends on Plurk into categories. For example, you can make an SEO clique, SMO clique and so on. Cliques help you manage your audience so that you can send plurks to only the friends who need to be notified.

Plurk is a lot of fun and can be very addictive. It is worth exploring because it can send some traffic your way. It is all about your friends and how you use it. I am still fairly new to Plurk but join in and let's explore this tool together.

If you are going to join, please use this URL to join, so you are friended to me right away.

Forum discussion at Sphinn with the following threads:

Plurk: The Power of Wasting Time...
Plurk - An investigation into the benefits and detriments of micro blogging
Five great Plurk tools to feed the need!

Daily Search Forum Recap: June 25, 2008

Posted: June 25th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: June 23, 2008

Posted: June 24th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: June 20, 2008

Posted: June 21st, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: June 19, 2008

Posted: June 20th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: June 18, 2008

Posted: June 19th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: June 17, 2008

Posted: June 18th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: June 16, 2008

Posted: June 17th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: June 13, 2008

Posted: June 14th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: June 12, 2008

Posted: June 13th, 2008, 12:44am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Do We Need SEO Forums?

Posted: June 9th, 2008, 3:51pm CEST by Tamar Weinberg

Tags: SEO Forum News

John Carcutt wrote at Search Engine Journal that "real SEOs don't go to forums." That said, we here at Search Engine Roundtable cover only forum discussion, so we ask the question: are SEO forums really needed? After all, blogs have replaced forums (but this blog is a combination of both!)

After reading through his detailed analysis of whether SEO forums are needed, one can come to the conclusion that SEO forums are useful to unite people on a common ground (SEO, of course), but that there are still errors of judgment that can be made. A lot of people who post on forums really don't know the right answer to the questions. The same goes for blogs, though. There are a lot of blog posts that have been argued time and time again based on [mis]information.

Still, however, for many of the prominent SEO bloggers, forums were a staple of education and provide value for the beginners. John explains, "All in all, if you leave the forums out of your everyday SEO life you are not living as full of a life as you could be."

The discussion moves onto Cre8asite Forums where many echo the sentiment that some of the larger "SEO" forums don't actually feel like a community. There are just so many members that one can get lost in the sea of new faces. Others agree with John's assessment that forums are a wonderful place for a beginner to ask new questions and get answers from people already "in the know."

A.N.Onym makes an interesting statement regarding forums:

For me, the forums replace a chance to just talk about the topic with my colleagues. It could be discussing the latest G quirks, tactics or just bouncing off ideas/approaches. You don't get that on social sites, unless you specificially ask about it on LinkedIn or smth.

The discussion moves on and has some great insight from Ammon Johns on why SEO forums are needed. I suggest you give it a read.

Forum discussion continues at Cre8asite Forums and Sphinn.

Daily Search Forum Recap: June 6, 2008

Posted: June 7th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: June 3, 2008

Posted: June 4th, 2008, 3:45am 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.

WebmasterWorld Compromised - Security Issue Reveals Some Passwords

Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 4:16pm CEST by rustybrick

Tags: SEO Forum News

Hasn't been a good weekend for forums. First we learn that DigitalPoint Forums had database issues and now I learn that the software used at WebmasterWorld was "compromised last week."

Brett Tabke posted the details of the issue. He said, there was a "security fault in the lostpassword utility was used to access admin passwords." Although this may sound serious, Brett said "the perpetrator did not actually do any harm that we can see."

How does this impact you? Well, you may want to change the password you have been using on WebmasterWorld to a different one. In addition, if you are a lurker (i.e. you don't post threads), your account may have been deleted during the pruning process.

Brett said he "scrubbed/weeded the entire membership base of inactive nonparticipating accounts going back three years (around 200k - almost 50% of the membership base)."

Please note that you cannot change your password just yet. The tech team is reworking that password utility feature as we speak. So stay tuned on the announcement page for any update.

Daily Search Forum Recap: June 2, 2008

Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 11:38pm 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.

DigitalPoint Forums Suffers Major Outage

Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 2:35pm CEST by rustybrick

Tags: SEO Forum News

DigitalPoint Forums, one of our main sources of search news and topics, is currently suffering a major outage. Since last night, the forum has been offline due to what appears to be database issues.

It appears to me, from the VBulleting software error message that the database server is having major issues. Either it was some how disconnected from the web servers or it went offline. Here is the current error message:

The database has encountered a problem.

DigitalPoint Forums launched in 2004, and quickly gained in membership for many reasons. One major reason was for all the popular and free tools Shawn, DigitalPoint's founder, created. The other was that he was the first to come up with the AdSense revenue sharing model on his forum.

In any event, it is currently down. Shawn seems to be away at the moment. So many of those who are dependent on DigitalPoint Forums will need to take a minor vacation until the site comes back online.

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 30, 2008

Posted: May 31st, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 29, 2008

Posted: May 30th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 27, 2008

Posted: May 28th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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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Posted: May 27th, 2008, 7:40pm CEST by miliste

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 26, 2008

Posted: May 27th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 23, 2008

Posted: May 24th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 22, 2008

Posted: May 23rd, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 21, 2008

Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 12:18am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 20, 2008

Posted: May 21st, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 16, 2008

Posted: May 17th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 15, 2008

Posted: May 16th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 14, 2008

Posted: May 15th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 13, 2008

Posted: May 14th, 2008, 12:18am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 12, 2008

Posted: May 13th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 9, 2008

Posted: May 10th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 8, 2008

Posted: May 9th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 7, 2008

Posted: May 8th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 6, 2008

Posted: May 7th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 5, 2008

Posted: May 6th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 2, 2008

Posted: May 3rd, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 1, 2008

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 1:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 30, 2008

Posted: May 1st, 2008, 1:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 29, 2008

Posted: April 30th, 2008, 1:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Dailly Search Forum Recap: April 28, 2008

Posted: April 29th, 2008, 1:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 28, 2008

Posted: April 29th, 2008, 1:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 25, 2008

Posted: April 26th, 2008, 12:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 24, 2008

Posted: April 25th, 2008, 1:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 23, 2008

Posted: April 23rd, 2008, 11:01pm 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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 22, 2008

Posted: April 23rd, 2008, 12:42am 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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 21, 2008

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 4:41am 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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 18, 2008

Posted: April 18th, 2008, 10:55pm 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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 17, 2008

Posted: April 18th, 2008, 1:00am 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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 16, 2008

Posted: April 17th, 2008, 1:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 14, 2008

Posted: April 15th, 2008, 1:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 11, 2008

Posted: April 12th, 2008, 1:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 10, 2008

Posted: April 11th, 2008, 1:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 9, 2008

Posted: April 10th, 2008, 1:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 8, 2008

Posted: April 9th, 2008, 1:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 7, 2008

Posted: April 8th, 2008, 1:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 4, 2008

Posted: April 5th, 2008, 1:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 3, 2008

Posted: April 4th, 2008, 1:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 2, 2008

Posted: April 3rd, 2008, 1:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 1, 2008

Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 1:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

Tags: Search Forum Recap

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Squaretable and other search forums on the web.

Daily Search Forum Recap: March 31, 2008

Posted: April 1st, 2008, 1:00am CEST by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: March 28, 2008

Posted: March 29th, 2008, 12:00am CET by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: March 27, 2008

Posted: March 28th, 2008, 12:00am CET by Tamar Weinberg

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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: March 26, 2008

Posted: March 27th, 2008, 12:00am CET by Tamar Weinberg

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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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: March 25, 2008

Posted: March 26th, 2008, 12:00am CET by Tamar Weinberg

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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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: 03/21/08

Posted: March 22nd, 2008, 12:00am CET by Tamar Weinberg

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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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: March 20, 2008

Posted: March 21st, 2008, 12:22am CET by rustybrick

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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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: March 19, 2008

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 1:29am CET by rustybrick

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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.

Daily Search Forum Recap: March 18, 2008

Posted: March 19th, 2008, 12:17am CET by rustybrick

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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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