Google Chrome is making some changes with how HTTPS sites will display in the browser, when those pages also have some non-HTTPS elements or content present (also referred to as serving mixed content). Now, those pages will show as they do for HTTP / unsecure pages. Here is a chart showing the new change. The […]
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HTTPS Navigations in Chrome Increased 5% in Last Year
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+ […]
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 […]
Bing Testing New Style Star Ratings in Search Results
Bing is testing a new style of rating stars in the search results. They are now including the numeric rating score in front of the stars underneath the URL/breadcrumbs line in this limited test. This style displays for all ratings on the page and also shows for other types of searches that show ratings, such […]
Google: How to Remove Low Quality Thin Content
There has been plenty of discussion over the past couple of days about Panda and thin versus thick content and when someone should improve quality versus remove suspected low quality content. More questions about this came up at Gary Illyes’ Pubcon keynote Thursday. Jenny Halasz from JLH Marketing referenced the recent long Twitter discussion from […]
Why Google Stopping Updating Algo Update Info on Inside Search
Those who have been around the industry for a while will remember that Google used to post updates about recent algo changes on Inside Search. However, it was discontinued in 2012 and hasn’t been updated, aside from changing the header to the new Google logo. The question came up yesterday during Gary Illye’s Q&A at […]
Google Still Looking to Add Featured Snippets Info to Search Console
Google is still looking to add data regarding featured snippets into Google Search Console, according to Gary Illyes from Google. Illyes was asked during the Q&A portion of his keynote about what users might expect to see added to the Google Search Console in the near future. Ever since featured snippets began to be more […]