Google may be changing the format of its keyword query search engine report pages (SERPs). Separate items may appear where relevant rather than just a group of two from each domain.

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Google blog post snippets can start with the date in the searcher's language. 138 characters of the Description are then often added.

Google snippets appear below each item in keyword search engine report pages (SERP). Good snippets increase clickthroughs to the Web page. It now appears that for blogs the Description should be less than 138 characters to be used as the snippet.

Twitter limits its human writers to 140 characters and is a success. Google SERP snippets are 155 characters and are written by computers. The winner is?

Google adds short snippets to entries in a keyword query search engine report. Applying SEO to that Web page description brings more visitor traffic.

Many social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Plaxo and Twitter encourage frequent status reports. Perhaps the haiku format can stem the tidal wave.

A blog post Title can be different from its Headline using the All in One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin and the post will rank higher for keyword searches. It's a little more effort but well worthwhile.

A 301 permanent redirect preserves Google rankings for keyword searches. The old version is still maintained in the Google index but loses visibility.

So why were blogs in the headlines in February? There were three principal reasons: 1. Hackers 2. Google 3. Big business has noticed blogs beat traditional media