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 Extends Search Results Snippets To Max 320 Characters
Google has officially extended the search results snippets to a maximum character length of 320 characters... - Official: Google Local Questions & Answers Now On Desktop
After months of testing the local question and answer feature on desktop... - Google Notable Moments In Knowledge Graph Cards
Google has a new feature they are testing in some knowledge cards called "notable moments." In short, these notable moments give you a timeline of specific events that occurred in a carousel format... - 14 Years Covering The Search Industry
Today is the 14th year anniversary of this site, the Search Engine Roundtable. This site, started as a way to keep my notes on the changes happening in the SEO/SEM space, has been consistently around and documenting those changes for 14 years straight... - Lisa Barone - 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. Lisa Barone, 35 years old, lives in upstate New York with her husband and toddler, is a super awesome individual... - Google Scratch: Kids Coding Languages With Coding For Carrots
Today on the Google home page is a special interactive Google Doodle that helps kids learn how to code. It is to celebrate 50 years since kids programming languages during the Computer Science Education Week... - Google Christmas Toy Trains
Here is a photo I spotted on Instagram from the Google Dublin office of a toy train set all set up for Christmas ready to deliver presents. It was posted by Matilda Samuelsson who wrote Christmas spi
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- @jennyhalasz I wouldn't focus too much on ranking factors & instead look at what search is trying to do: show relevant & great content to users when they… https://t.co/RE5mGOrIGB, John Mueller on Twitter
- Threatening Tax Info Email from Adsense, WebmasterWorld
- @Davidkaufmann16 @JohnMu Great ways to deal with case-insensitive URLs (with a preferred version, if you can't redirect) are: * rel=canonical * consistent on-site li… https://t.co/9RtvywjyPe, Google Webmasters on Twitter
- @RoeeSa @JohnMu @methode Language is per-URL (parameters are fine). Geotargeting for countries is per site section (domain, subdomain, subdirectory)., Google Webmasters on Twitter
- I've been performing #SEO since 2000 (yes, I'm a novice) and I thought I've seen everything until today. This site's keywords attribute has… https://t.co/FZvMOVfDlH, John McCarthy on Twitter
- Report: Facebook to Test Pre-Roll Video Adverts, WebmasterWorld
