Google has been pushing hard on the value of switching to HTTPS. With the announcement of the HTTPS ranking boost – which was really more of a tie breaker – it convinced many webmasters to make the switch from HTTP to HTTPS. Ilya Grigorik, a web performance engineer at Google made the announcement on Google+ […]
Archives for October 13, 2015
Google Looking for Feedback on Search Console’s Content Keywords Feature
John Mueller from Google is looking for some interesting feedback from Google Search Console users specifically around the “Content Keywords” section. It seems that they are looking to not only find out what people think is most useful, but also how people might be confusing what it is actually telling webmasters. Here is a quick […]
Bing Adds New Features to Organic Product Listings in Search Results
Bing has made some new changes to how they are displaying organic search results that happen to be products, and some definitely make those particular results stand out. First, they include the new style review stars we covered here. But we have also spotted several other new features they appear to be testing out. Bing […]
Google Search Console Updates Data Anomalies Page
Google Search Console has made a small change to their Data Anomalies page in order to split different types of reporting into separate drop down menus. Prior to the change, the Data Anomalies page just listed “Search Analytics Report” but now it includes three additional sections. The added ones are “Mobile Usability Report”, “Blocked Resources […]
Google Adds Knowledge Panel Shopping Ads Hybrid to Mobile Search Results
Google is finally taking the knowledge panel / shopping ad hybrid and showing it to mobile users. Until now, it had just been showing to desktop users. Google first began testing these hybrid knowledge panels that contained data as in a regular knowledge panel, but with the addition of sellers as a sponsored Product Listing […]