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
