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

You need to have a verified Facebook Page in order to post branded content. The post No Sponsored Content on Facebook Unless You Have a Verified Page by @SouthernSEJ appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google highlighted on its Webmaster Central blog today some achievements the company has made in fighting web spam in 2015. The post Google Delivered Over 4 Million Manual Action Penalties Last Year by @SouthernSEJ appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. The post SearchCap: Google webspam, Bing bad ads & translation appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Google may be testing showing the Google Partner logo in the web search results when the Google partner URLs show up in the web search results…

Google said 1.4 million sites of the 4.3 million manual actions in 2015 submitted reconsideration requests. As well as over 400,000 spam reports were submitted that year. The post Google sent 4.3 million messages to webmasters and saw 33% increase in clean-up efforts appeared first on Search..

In an exclusive study by SEO PowerSuite, some revealing findings were uncovered as to how SEOs are responding to Google’s AMP project two months out. The post SEJ Wrap-Up: How Many SEOs Are Now Using AMP

Tech support scams remain at the top of the list of bad actors that search engines have to keep fighting.

Want to become an AdWords all-star? Columnist Todd Saunders shows the lessons that search engine marketers can learn from a basketball legend. The post What Kobe Bryant can teach you about succeeding with AdWords appeared first on Search Engine Land.

It looks like Google is migrating Google Search Console from /webmasters to /search-console in the near future. Remember, Google rebranded Google Webmaster Tools as Google Search Console almost exactly a year ago