News from Episode 327 with Tim Soulo

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Google Gives Webmasters More Control Over Their Search Listing Displays
Three new meta tags allow for controlling the max length of a text preview, duration of a video preview, and size of an image preview. An HTML attribute is also available to help with this.
By Barry Schwartz

Broad Core Algorithm Update by Google on September 24th
Google announced ahead of time this broad update would start rolling out on September 24th, which is only the second time Google has much such an announcement ahead of a major update.
By Matt Southern

Who was Affected by Google's September Update?
It looks like at least one aspect of the update might have been a crackdown on a popular link scheme exploiting a ranking loophole at Google related to 301 redirecting expired links to a website.
By: Rodger Montti