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: Titles & Descriptions Are Easy Wins For SEO
This is a no brainer and one of the easiest things you can do to help a site perform better in search - make sure their title tags are reflecting the content on the page and what the searcher would query to find their content... - Google iOS Search App Gets iMessage Extension, Safari Related Content & iPad Drag/Drop Support
Google announced they have upgraded the iOS Google search app to bring three new features. Specifically the ability to search and share directly in iMessage, to look for related content in the Safari browser and drag and drop support for iPads... - Meet Up With Google's Gary Illyes At Hilton Garden Inn Gurgaon New Delhi
Gary Illyes from Google is currently in India, in the New Delhi region and he said if SEOs or Webmasters want to meet up Wednesday, Thursday and/or Friday at 5pm local time, he will be at the Hilton Garden Inn Gurgaon... - Google Can't Find Bend, Oregon's Zip Code 97702
If you go to Google and search for [97702], which is the zip code for Bend, Oregon... - Carrie Hill - 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. Carrie Hill is 43 years old and lives in the mountains of Colorado... - Google Logo For Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Columbian Writer
On Google's home page is a special Google logo, Doodle for Gabriel García Márquez, the famous Colombian novelist, writer, screenwriter and journalist... - Google Letter G Art Sculpture
Here is a picture I found on Instagram of someone snapping a photo from outside of the Google Dublin office, showing how they have a art sculpture in the lobby in the shape of the G logo, in lowercase
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Apple's New HQ is a Pain for Some, WebmasterWorld
- Google to sell Restaurant Review Site, Zagat, to "The Infatuation", WebmasterWorld
- My recommendation is to put them all into a "storage"-like account to make sure you don't miss any messages, and to delegate access from there to the accounts you use on a daily basis (keep those clean).… https:/, John Mueller on Twitter
- Policy violations based on search queries, WebmasterWorld
- New 3D Imagery in Google Earth, Google Maps on Twitter
- Please guys, don't use canonical for translated content. Canonical should be used if you want to re-publish content in the same language as the original but and not if you are publishing a translation (either in a different site o, Pedro Dias on Twitter
- That tool was just a quick google away, I hadn't seen it before - it seems to be really neat :). Prediction: In 5 years, nobody will do regex, they'll just train a ML model because it's easier.… https://t.co/1JyU, John Mueller on Twitter
- This is how you do hreflang, in an image. Thanks, @aleyda !…, John Mueller on Twitter
