Daily Search Forum Recap: August 26, 2015

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

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Google Search App Error: No App Found To Open URL

Apps in search are a big deal and becoming a bigger deal every single day, both with Google, but also with Bing and even Apple...

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Google: If We Email You, Login To Your Google My Business Or It May Be Removed

In June, Google began warning business owners that they need to login and verify their business listings within the Google My Business account. If they did not, they run the risk of having their business listing removed from Google Maps. Well, now Google is warning businesses again...

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Google: We Only Discover Links On Pages With 200 Status Codes

The other day, we explained that even links on soft 404 pages are not followed by Google. We knew this was the case with hard 404s but we were not confident about that with soft 404 pages.

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Google Maps Views Now Goes Offline

This should not come as a surprise, since Google told us this was coming back a few months ago, but now it is here. Google Maps Business Views and Google Views is now officially offline. It will be coming back in a new form, but it is now gone...

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