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:
- Google Will Penalize Your Site For Using Event Markup Incorrectly
Google has had enough of people using the event markup in a misleading way and is now sending out a strict warning that if you use this markup in any other way then its intended purpose... - Google: Featured Snippets Are Not Losing Their Appeal
We recently reported about the changes in the featured snippets being shown in Google. Yesterday... - Google Bug Removes Answers From The Local Q&A Feature
Brodie Clark from optimising.com.au has been tracking the local Q&A feature in depth and noticed the other day that many of his answers have gone missing. He was upset because he spent a lot of time and energy answering questions for Google and those businesses and now they were gone... - Google Tests Research Search Carousel
Google seems to be testing a new search feature that shows a "research" search carousel box in the search results for content around your query. I cannot replicate this by Geoff Angell posted a screen shot on Twitter showing the feature in action... - Google Often Tests Longer Search Results Snippets
Over the past few days or so, since around Thanksgiving time, I've been getting emails, tweets, etc from people telling me they are seeing Google showing longer snippets from the typical two line search results snippet... - Ross Dunn - 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. Ross Dunn, 41 years old, and has been in the industry since 1997 - well before the SEO industry was named "SEO." He is married for 10 years and has two children... - Front Seat Of The Google Chicago Subway Car
Parisa Tabriz, Google's "security princess" information security manager posted on Twitter a picture of her in the front seat of that subway train car at the Google Chicago office. We've seen outside
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- In my post I explain how a rogue subdomain was activated during an https migration, how over 7K duplicate urls were indexed, how we handled… https://t.co/2C1UhiXdcO, Glenn Gabe on Twitter
- Some SEOs get caught up in endless discussions about backlink profiles, keyword rankings and Google updates. Don't be that SEO. See the big… https://t.co/aOy4YwRvUf, Eoghan Henn on Twitter
- ##NoHacked is back! More tips for hack detection coming this week! Start wit..., Google+ - Google Webmasters
- Google Algo Changing?, BlackHatWorld
- Google Gmail Adds Anti-Phishing, Malicious Link Detection, WebmasterWorld
- Imgur Hack 1.7 Million emails and Passwords Stolen, WebmasterWorld
