SEO wins bug bounty from Vulnerability Reward Program, Google search team confirms the exploit no longer works The post Hijacking Google search results for fun, not profit: UK SEO uncovers XML sitemap exploit in Google Search Console appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
Google is encouraging webmasters and site owners to verify their sites in Google Search Console to help both prevent and fix website hacks. The post Google: Hacked sites increased 32% in 2016 appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
The revised security reports in the Google Search Console promise to provide more specific explanations and insights into the issues. The post Google Search Console improves Security Issues reports appeared first on Search Engine Land.
Google says it is proud its transparency reports have helped “shed light on government surveillance laws and practices” around the world. The post Google reports more than 40K government requests for user data during 2nd half of 2015 appeared first on Search Engine Land.
Google said 1.4 million sites of the 4.3 million manual actions in 2015 submitted reconsideration requests. As well as over 400,000 spam reports were submitted that year. The post Google sent 4.3 million messages to webmasters and saw 33% increase in clean-up efforts appeared first on Search..
Google is now serving a big red warning to searchers before they go to websites with deceptive download buttons.
Google may flag sites that have broken security certificates in the search results. They may also boost the ranking benefit on login pages, to prevent phishing attempts.
Google says it will boost rankings for HTTPS sites, but, in an interview by contributor Clark Buckner, Henshaw recommends SEOs hold off. The post SEO & SSL: A Conversation With Jon Henshaw Of Raven Tools appeared first on Search Engine Land.
Google’s Brian Fitzpatrick, Engineering Director, announced on the Google Security Blog that the Google SafeSearch feature that network administrators can force over their networks now supports HTTPS. That means if the network administrators upgrade to the new protocol, all searches over…
About three years ago, Google was labeled in one study as the “King of Malware.” Things have apparently changed a lot since then. A new study reports that Google is beating its primary search competitors pretty significantly when it comes to keeping malware out of search results.