Here is a 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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Charley Spektor is the co-founder of Saratoga B2B Group and has a very deep and rich career in digital marketing, from working at IDG, TechTarget, Cheapflights… …

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Today is Google’s officially birthday, it’s 23rd birthday. Oh boy are we all getting old. 🙂 The Doodle, special Google logo, to celebrate is of a cake with a candle, that says 23 on it and it is animated with …

I asked John Mueller of Google about category pages that contain sponsored products. Does Google want sites to ensure Google cannot index those sponsored products. John Mueller said “some sites take care to prevent them from being indexed in various …

Earlier we reported that Google does not use URL length as a ranking factor. While that may be true, Google does use the URL length as a “very light” signal for canonicalization, said John Mueller of Google. …

Google’s John Mueller said that Google is trying to move away from the over 200 ranking signal number because they find it to be “kind of misleading.” Misleading in that it is hard to quantify the number of ranking signals …

Brodie Clark spotted another Google Search user interface test where the product reviews stars and ratings show up in a small box at the top right of the snippet. These seller ratings are not really from the structured data area …

Once again, there may have been yet another Google search ranking algorithm update this past weekend. This is unconfirmed still but it seems like a very big update based on the tracking tools and some of the comments I saw …