Google: You Can Use Hashtags In Meta Descriptions (#shouldyou?)

Google's John Mueller was asked if you could use hashtags in meta descriptions? He responded on Twitter saying #sure. But the bigger question is, should you use hashtags in meta descriptions?

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Google Search Dictionary Has A Tip For Similar-Sounding Words

Google has been offering dictionary search results over a dozen years and the search company continues to make tweaks to that feature. Google now will show a "tip" section on some terms that communicate "similar-sounding words" to the word you searched for.

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John Mueller With "It Depends" Google Shirt, Also He Has Hair

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Old BingBot User-Agent To Stop Being Used In Fall 2022

Fabrice Canel from Microsoft Bing announced on the Bing blog that the search company will retire the legacy BingBot user-agent in the Fall of 2022. Instead, Bing will use a user-agent that is more representative of its evergreen BingBot rendering engine.

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Google Search Console Caches Inspection Tool Live Test URLs For 90 Days

In Google Search Console, you can use the URL Inspection Tool to test how Google sees a URL in its index versus in real time by using the live test button. Jamie Indigo asked on Twitter how long does that URL for the live test cache. Daniel Waisberg of Google responded that it lasts about 90 days.

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