If you haven’t already updated WordPress with yesterday’s update, you will want to update immediately. It fixes several vulnerabilities, including critical ones that are out in the wild. Shortly before the update was released, Sucuri released information regarding a major exploit they were seeing across many WordPress sites that resulted in many WordPress sites infected […]
Archives for February 2016
160 Web Marketing Events Deserving Attention in 2016
With so many web marketing events going on in the world it is increasingly difficult to find which to consider to plan your “digital study trip” without risking to waste time and money. We decided to map the most significant ones, with at least one international session in English, dividing them by their main focus. In […]
Google Displaying JSON-LD Ratings & Reviews in Search Results
Google is now supporting ratings and reviews in JSON-LD format in the Google search results. It is supporting JSON-LD for both the search results and review listings shown in the knowledge panel. Ramesh Singh sent me these screenshots where they were testing JSON-LD implementation on their site to test when Google would begin picking up […]
Don’t Have to Move All Pages to HTTPS; Can Move Partial Sites
Many people are a bit wary of switching to HTTPS, especially with the potential loss of rankings while Google recrawls and matches up HTTP URLs with the new HTTPS ones. While Google has said this shouldn’t take more than a couple of weeks, many site owners are still a bit concerned over the potential for […]
No PageRank Loss When 301 or 302 Redirect to HTTPS
One of the concerns that people have had over switching to HTTPS is whether there would be any PageRank loss, even a small amount, by redirecting all pages from the HTTP version to the HTTPS version. After all, no one wants to make the switch for the tiny ranking boost (which acts as more of […]
France Wants to Ban Linking to Any Site Without Permission
If you want to link to a website in France, you would need to get explicit permission from the rights holder”, if two Parliament Members in France are successful in their proposal amendment. The idea was proposed but rejected by the Legislative Commission, but it is brought back again. Socialist Karine Berger and Valérie Rabault […]
Google Sending Confirmation Notices for Spam Reports
Google seems to have made a small change for those who submit spam reports via Google Search Console… a new confirmation email WNC-652000 for “Spam report successfully submitted.” Here is the new notice they send out for a submitted spam report. Spam report successfully submitted Google has received a spam report for site http://www.example.com. We […]
Google & Bing Display Stock Prices in AutoSuggest Drop Down
Google has added another new feature to their autocomplete drop down – stock prices. Bing has also added the same, although with lesser success when compared to Google. Here is how it appears when you begin searching for the stock price of Facebook in Google: When you click that autocomplete result, it takes you to […]