Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Google’s help document on controlling your snippets in search results has added some examples of “bad” and “better” meta descriptions.  The bad. Google advises avoiding these four types of “bad” meta descriptions: List of keywords: “Sewing supplies, yarn, colored pencils, sewing machines, threads, bobbins, needles” Same description used for every news article: “Local news in Whoville, delivered to your doorstep

Update. The issue has now been resolved. Google is facing a slew of issues today affecting the Ads API, Impression Share, Auction Insights, and Ads Manager.

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Update. The issue has now been resolved.

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We keep watching to see if this Google helpful content update is making some sort of dent in the rankings but so far, we are not seeing massive, Panda-like, ranking changes due to this update. No fear, Danny Sullivan said yesterday it is not yet done yet and Google will update this page when it is done.

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