Bing: No Plans To Give Ranking Boost For HTTPS

At Search Marketing Expo, Bing’s Vincent Wehren, the Lead Program Manager for Bing Webmaster Tools, said they have no plans on ever giving a ranking boost to websites that switch to HTTPS. In August, Google began giving sites that use HTTPS a ranking boost as a bit of an incentive to…

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German Official: Google Should Reveal Its Ranking Algorithm

One of the unanswered questions in the ongoing European-Google antitrust saga is what concrete changes or concessions critics want (or will accept) from Google. One of those things may have just come to light in a Financial Times interview with German justice minister Heiko Maas. Maas asserts in…

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SearchCap: Ditching Ranking Reports, EU Publishers Threaten To Sue Google & More

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: On Average, 171 Health Insurance Advertisers Bid On Same Top Keywords In Google Health insurance advertisers spent more than $ 103 million on Google AdWords in the…

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SearchCap: SEO Industry Survey, New AdWords Policy & Report On SEO Ranking Factors

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Industry Survey: 37% Of SEOs Saw Less Than $ 30,000 In Revenue Turnover Since Last Year According to an industry survey by local search firm BrightLocal, a…

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SEO Industry Tweets Its Reactions To Google’s SSL Ranking Boost

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”…

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Google Starts Giving A Ranking Boost To Secure HTTPS/SSL Sites

Google To Give Secure Sites A Ranking Boost Google has announced (the blog post hasn’t gone live yet, actually) that going HTTPS — adding a SSL 2048-bit key certificate on your site — will give you a minor ranking boost. Google says this gives websites a small ranking benefit,…

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Those Google Ranking Shifts Are Not A Google Update, Google Denies Any Algorithmic Changes

Over the past week or so, there has been a lot of various signals across the search community that Google’s algorithms and rankings were updating, so much so that people were bracing themselves for a major Penguin or Panda-like algorithm announcement from Google. Google never made the…

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New PLA Test Spotted: Google Ranking Products By Reviews And Ratings

The team at CPC Strategy spotted a new test in the Google Product Listing Ads (PLAs) last night. In a search for coffee grinders that was qualified with “best”, the PLAs were shown in order of a  numerical rankings system that appears to be factoring in the quality and quantity of each…

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SearchCap: SSL Ranking Boost, Cortana Compared & Google’s Lobbying Efforts

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’s Matt Cutts Explains How Google Search Handles 404 & 410 Status Codes Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a video today…

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How Fast Is SEO Really Changing? A Look Back At Search Ranking Factors

Ready for a walk down memory lane? The Search Ranking Factors studies by well-known SEO Rand Fishkin started in 2005, and he and his group have been churning out perceptive insights every two years ever since. If you take a look at how the findings have changed throughout the eight years that the…

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