Daily Search Forum Recap: December 31, 2014

Dec 31, 2014 • 4:00 pm | comments

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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:

Did Comments Cause This Site To Get Hit By Google Panda 4.1?
Shortly after Google released the Google Panda 4.1 update, I asked if this site was hit by the almighty Panda algorithm. It clearly looked like it was and I believe it was hit by Panda. Nothing has changed since. Not to this site, not to the content...
Is Google Maps Cleaning Up Abbreviated Street Addresses?
Yesterday an interesting thread popped up in the Local Search Forum asking if Google has decided to automatically expand the abbreviated addresses listed in Google Maps. I checked several queries and all of them showed me unabbreviated street addresses. For example, road spelled out vs Rd...
Google AdWords Testing New AdWords Extension?
Kim Clinkunbroomer believe she has seen a new Google AdWords extension format test on one of her client's ads. She said the ad shown in the wild a set of link extensions that were dynamically pulled based on the query and the title tag of the page...
Google: Don't Worry About The Ouput Of The Site Command
Almost four years ago, Matt Cutts, Google's head of search spam, made a video on how Google ranks the site command results. In short he said, Google may use a form of PageRank to order them...
New Years Eve 2014: Google's 2014 Trending Topics & Bing Fireworks
Happy New Years eve everyone! Well, if you are in the Australian region, happy New Years to you...
I'll Have Wikipedia With My Wonton Soup Please
Retweeted by Matt Cutts, posted by @_youhadonejob on Twitter, here is a picture of a Asian restaurant menu where they are serving Wikipedia for lunch. Here you can get Stir-fried wikipedia, steam eg