Low quality exact match domains - Google Updates

Google updates their algo again and this time Google reduces search results for "exact match" domains with low quality.

New exact-match domain (EMD) algo affects 0.6% of English-US queries to a noticeable degree. Unrelated to Panda/Penguin.
— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) September 28, 2012

Minor weather report: small upcoming Google algo change will reduce low-quality "exact-match" domains in search results.
— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) September 28, 2012

Google Webmaster specific quality guidelines

Google has provided specific quality guidelines in its Webmaster Guidelines. These guidelines help your website get crawled and indexed.

- Do not use hidden text or link.
- Avoid cloaking or sneaky redirects.
- Do not send automated queries to Google.
- Not to load pages with irrelevant keywords.
- Avoid duplicate content.
- Do not create pages with malicious programs
- No doorway pages to cheat search bots.
- Provide a value/reason for your customers to visit your site if your site uses affiliate program.

Resource:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769

Google Authorship in Search

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/authorship/index.html

Google displays author information in the Google search results and if you want to display your authorship information for the content you create in the Google search results,
- you will need to create your Google+ profile and then verify authorship of your content, i.e link your Google+ Profile with the content you create.

Google provides following two methods to link your Google+ profile with the content you create. [ learn more ]
1.  Using verified email address to link to your content. i.e verify your email address (author@example.com) on the same domain as your content.
2. Build authorship by linking your content to your Google+ Profile.
- from your webpage, create a link to your Google+ profile. i.e <a href="[profile_url]?rel=author">Google</a>
- Edit your Google+ Profile, and add your website link in the "Contributor to" Section.

You can use structured data testing tool to check what author data Google has extracted.

More:
https://plus.google.com/authorship 
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1408986 
http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/authorship/index.html

Listing Being Reviewed in Google Places

Pending - being reviewed

The business listing is Pending and is being reviewed in the Google Places dashboard. The Google system automatically marks any business listing as pending and is placed in a queue to be manually reviewed by their team.

Why is my listing being reviewed?

Your listing contains a term or other behavior that we monitor, so it has been automatically earmarked by our system for further review. This is a temporary state and is expected behavior for terms that require manual judgment

More: http://support.google.com/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=174542

Google is rolling out Panda Updates

Panda refresh is rolling out—expect some flux over the next few days. Fewer than 0.7% of queries noticeably affected: goo.gl/woSU3
— A Googler (@google) September 18, 2012

Panda Updates history, http://searchengineland.com/panda-update-3-92-rolling-out-or-is-it-panda-4-0-time-133607

Header Photo in Twitter

You can now upload header photo in twitter, @abeen

More from http://blog.twitter.com/2012/09/because-you-have-more-to-show.html?m=1

Starting today you can make your presence on Twitter more meaningful with new Twitter profiles. Upload an all-new header photo on mobile apps for iPad, iPhone and Android or twitter.com, and the same image will appear whenever anyone views your profile on the web or these apps. You can upload your header photo, which appears above your Tweets, to express yourself instantly, anywhere.

Google updates algo - Matt tweets

Just fyi, we rolled out a small algo change this week that improves the diversity of search results in terms of different domains returned.
— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) September 14, 2012

We currently do not support the location in Google Places

Received the PIN, verified and this is what we see if we try to "See your listing on Google" in the dashboard. Yes, Google still has not solved this "We currently do not support the location" issue.
This is a newly created business listing and needs to have citations as well.