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 Starts Giving A Ranking Boost To Secure HTTPS/SSL Sites Google To Give Secure Sites A Ranking Boost Google has announced that going HTTPS — adding a… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article
Google’s top business leaders, Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle have teamed up to write a book about their experience in running Google over the years. The book is named “How Google Works” and the companion web site is at howgoogleworks.net…
In an earnings call, RetailMeNot reported a loss due to the rollout of Google Panda 4.0, but said it was experiencing a “partial recovery.”
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Aiming to make its search results more “developer friendly,” Bing says it has streamlined API, code and non-alphanumeric queries, made software download searches safer and added instant answers to the top of search results for Microsoft-related technology queries. Using a side-by-side… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
It has been eight months and one day since the last toolbar PageRank update and the one before that was on February 4th, a 10 month wait time.
The SEO industry is abuzz today with the news of Google’s latest ranking signal: Using SSL certificates will provide a boost in Google’s search rankings. (The web hosting industry is all abuzz, too, if you’re curious.) Google says it’s a “very lightweight signal”…
At least 50 links directing European readers to Wikipedia content have been removed by Google in compliance with the so-called Right to be Forgotten legislation.
Digital Marketing Depot presents “Digital Analytics Checkup: How to Evaluate the Impact of Your Web Analytics Data” on Tuesday, August 19th at 1 PM EDT. Jim Sterne of the Digital Analytics Association and Jenny Elliot of CrossView will explore which marketing metrics are essential, and..
Google announced early this morning that they are now using SSL/HTTPS as a ranking signal in their Google search algorithm. The signal is incredibly weak and webmasters should not go crazy about it..