As you know, I am the guinea pig here and I am migrating two sites from HTTP to HTTPS, this site and my corporate site. Both use Feedburner, which was acquired by Google in 2007, but there is constant fear that Google will kill off…

Today Google has announced that in late September, AdWords advertisers will no longer have the ability to de-select close variants. All campaigns will now include these variants, something that advertisers could previously opt out of.

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Responds To Mass Negative SEO Extortion Emails There are widespread reports within the industry of negative SEO extortion emails being sent to website… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

There are widespread reports within the industry of negative SEO extortion emails being sent to website owners, webmasters, SEOs and others. The emails are claiming that an evil SEO will ruin the site’s ranking in Google and other search engines if they do not come up and wire $1,500 to the… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

The search engine has added conversational understanding to its repertoire, meaning users can search for answers to related questions more easily.

According to a report released by U.K’s largest mobile network operator, Everything Everywhere (EE), Apple Maps represents a crushing 70% of mapping traffic across it’s whole network. The report reads: Traffic on the new Apple Maps now represents 70% of mapping traffic on the 4G… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

As I reported earlier, the change of address tool does not support HTTP to HTTPS migrations and John Mueller of Google said “just use normal 301s.” But how important is the change of address tool when migrating to a new domain name?

Microsoft developed a new board, “Catapult,” that contains a reprogrammable chip aimed at solving the problem of slow search result loading.

Facebook has announced the launch of cross-device reporting for Facebook ads.