Transcript of John Mueller Q-and-A about Google HTTPS Signal
The SEO community is making a mountain out of a molehill over Google’s recent publicity stunt in announcing a “slight” ranking boost for URLs that are published via HTTPS protocol rather than HTTP. They have been promoting the use of…
SearchCap: Microsoft Catapult, Google HTTPS Factors & Bing Conversational Search
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: BrightLocal Opens Its 2014 Local SEO Industry Survey Local SEO firm BrightLocal has posted its third annual local S…
BrightLocal Opens Its 2014 Local SEO Industry Survey
Local SEO firm BrightLocal has posted its third annual local SEO industry survey, asking SEO professionals to answer 20 questions on SEO business related topics like company turnover, services and fees. Anyone interested in taking the survey can do so on BrightLocal’s website up until this…
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New Settings Page Fits the Bill for DuckDuckGo
The search engine that says it doesn’t track its users has released an updated Settings page, adding options for Instant Answers and Auto-Suggest and removing an option for Meanings.
Google Informs Webmasters of Faulty Redirects for Mobile Users
Reports this week show webmasters are starting to see notifications from Google when faulty redirects are detected.
New Bing Search Feature Keeps Context From One Query To The Next
In its continued drive to build a search platform based on entity and conversational understanding, Bing has launched a new feature that enables the site to keep the context of a search from one query to the next. Using presidential searches as an example, Bing explains how a user could search…
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What Is Black Hat Social Media & Does It Affect SEO?
“You know about black hat search, now look at the impact this emerging practice may be having on rankings.”
http://searchengineland.com/blackhat-social-media-affect-seo-199516
Yahoo Acquires Local Recommendation App Zofari
The app, which says it was inspired by what Pandora has done for music and what Netflix has done for movies, will join the Yahoo Search team.
I Just Migrated This Google News Site To HTTPS
We have just migrated this site, the Search Engine Roundtable…
Google AdSense Publishers Forced To New Dashboard
Back in November, Google launched a new AdSense home page design. Many publishers did not switch over because they enjoyed and were accustomed to the old layout.
Well now, they do not have a choice. As of yesterday…
Google Structured Data Reporting Shows Massive Declines
There are hundreds of webmasters complaining and worried that their structured data is messed up…
Google Webmaster Faulty Redirects Notices May Be Ignored
Yesterday we reported how webmasters notices were being sent to those who manage sites that have faulty mobile redirects.
Tons and tons of webmasters received them and some were scratching their heads as to why. They thought everything was set up prop…
Google SSL Issues: Who Is To Blame? Google Or Site Owner?
After Google launched their HTTPS ranking signal some savvy SEOs and webmasters noticed SSL errors spewing from Google…
Google: Refreshing Penguin Is Not So Simple
It seems like Google Penguin has been on some sort of vacation, since it has now been over 10 months since the last refresh.
The sad part is, those who have spent the past 10 months trying to “fix” their sites, are in a penalty box just waiting…
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What Is Black Hat Social Media & Does It Affect SEO?
Black hat social media is emerging quickly and spawning a new era of web spam. This affects the social media sites themselves, the users, and the businesses utilizing the site for marketing. While many people are starting to recognize this trend, there is a dearth of information on how black hat…
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Mastering the PPC Challenge: A Beginner’s Guide [#CZLSF]
A recap of the “Mastering the PPC Challenge” session, presented by Diane Pease and John Gagnon at this year’s ClickZ Live San Francisco conference.
These 10 Analytics Reports Will Improve Your AdWords Results
I recently hosted a Hangout for the Google Partners community about how Google Analytics (GA) and AdWords can work together to help improve PPC results. With the speed at which new features get added, it’s easy to overlook one or two cool capabilities so here’s a roundup of 10 of my favorite…
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Explainer: How Google’s New SSL / HTTPS Ranking Factor Works
Last Thursday Google launched a new ranking signal to give HTTPS sites a ranking boost, small ranking boost, to encourage webmasters to migrate their sites from HTTP to HTTPS. In our story from Thursday, we covered why Google is doing this and the conc…
Google Investigating Bugs With Structured Data Report In Webmaster Tools
There are hundreds of complaints within the webmaster and SEO community around the Structured Data report within Google Webmaster Tools showing massive drops in structured data elements being shown. The good news is that everyone seems to be affected by the issue and that Google’s John…
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