While Google users in the U.S. and many other countries have been getting encrypted searches by default, Google has now expanded and begun encrypting web searches conducted by users in China, the Washington Post reported.

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Yelp and Yahoo have partnered to show Yelp local content within Yahoo Search results. Specifically, when you search Yahoo for local US businesses, you may see Yelp’s rich reviews, ratings, photos and business information directly in the Yahoo results..

As promised, Google has taken manual action to penalize link networks in Italy and Spain.

At SMX West Matt Cutts gave the attendees a few tidbits, one of those items was that making your site secure, encrypted, i.e. SSL enabled, is an important trend for 2014. At the end of the session..

Here is a fun story at the Google Webmaster Help of a webmaster who said his rankings dropped the day after he got in a fight with his AdWords representative. As you may know, Google has said time and time again…