Here is a 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 Roundtable Stories:
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Maccabees Update, Search Console More Data, Longer Meta Descriptions & Bing Updates
This week in search, we covered a large Google search algorithmic update that we named the Maccabees update. Google added over 12 months of data to the beta version…
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update: The Maccabees Update
There is currently both a lot of chatter in the SEO forums and many of the tools are lighting up around major changes in the Google search results…
Bing Adds Intelligent Answers, Reddit & More Conversational Features To Search
Bing announced they added some new search features to their search engine including intelligent answers…
Google: Watch Your Log Files To See If You Moved To The Mobile-First Index
Google’s John Mueller said this morning on a Google hangout at the 3:40 mark into the video that you can pretty clearly see if your site has been moved over to the mobile first index by looking at your log files…
Google Rolls Out Travel, Flight & Flight Search Features
After much testing, Google has rolled out a bunch of features around travel, trips, flights, hotels and more. In short, Google confirmed rolling out the price slider for hotels…
Alan George – The Search Community Honors You
This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series – feel free to nominate someone over here.
Alan George, 47 years old lives with his family in Portland, Oregon. He is very instrumental in the SEMpdx organization…
Google Dublin Menorah
We have covered many of the menorahs at Google over the years, but here is one guy lighting his menorah at the Google office in Dublin, Ireland. I don’t think we saw a menorah in that office yet. Las
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
@MattBarne5 @methode AFAIK we don’t have any “+10 penalties” or any kind of “glass ceiling” nowadays. If there’s a manual action, you’d see that in Search Consol… https://t.co/bKAWodWREc, John Mueller on Twitter
Global Broadband Speeds Are Up 30pct, According to Research, WebmasterWorld
U.S. FCC Repeals Net Neutrality Rules, WebmasterWorld
@Alvaro_Picho No, we generally drop fragments., John Mueller on Twitter
After you clean your site and fix the problem, make sure to file for a recons…, Google+ – Google Webmasters
As I fly, I see strange, curious things. What are they? (More generally, how…, Google+ – Dan Russell
Bing Maps Now Has New Fleet Management APIs, WebmasterWorld
VERY interesting post on Polymer + SEO best practices by @samdotli. Required reading for all Polymer devs. https://t.co/0KZHgOHljG, Rob Dodson on Twitter
