Wondering if your articles have the potential to appear as an “In-Depth Article” in the Google search results if only they showed more? While Google tends to only show one or two in-depth articles, they are ranking many more than that – up to ten for each search query. If you find yourself ranking just […]
345 Million Pirate Links Removed from Google in 2014
Ever wonder just how many URLs Google receives each year in DMCA complaints? Torrent Freak has analyzed Google’s weekly transparency reports for 2014 and discovered that copyright holders and others have submitted over 345 million URLs to the search engine for removal last year. That is an average of over 6 million URLs per week, […]
Google’s HTTPS as Ranking Factor Announcement Increased Secured Webpages by 3%
When Google pushing webmasters to adopt HTTPS with their announcement in August that it would be a ranking signal, it prompted many webmasters to rush to get their websites secured. And it would appear that the announcement had a huge impact on the number of websites that chose to switch from HTTP to HTTPS. So […]
Google+ Encouraging Users to Follow More Google+ Pages via Redirect When Visiting News Stream
Google+ is trying to encourage people to “follow interesting people” on Google+ by redirecting them to a “Get the latest from your favorites on Google+” page when you login to the site. When I logged into Google+ for the first time since before Christmas, I was redirected to the following landing page instead of my […]
How to Migrate to HTTPS from the Google Chrome Team
The Google Chrome Team has released a “work in progress” guide to transitioning a website to HTTPS. For those of you who didn’t immediately transition to HTTPS when Google first announced that it would be used as a ranking signal (which they later announced would not be visible), you probably want to add it to […]
Google Begins Showing Song Lyrics in Search Results via Knowledge Graph
In a move sure to upset all those song lyrics websites, Google has begun showing song lyrics directly within the search results via a knowledge graph above the organic search results. Glenn Gabe was the first to spot the change, and posted the screenshot below. They also link to Google Play at the end of […]
Google Chrome Wants to Warn Users Before Visiting All Non-HTTPS Sites
Webmasters will have one more reason why they should consider switching their sites to HTTPS as Google Chrome is planning to alert searchers when the site they are wanting to visit is unsecure via HTTPS. According to The Chromium Projects, the Google Chrome security team is proposing that the browser clearly states that HTTP webpages […]
Add Countdown Timer to Google AdWords Ads Without Using Scripts
If you like the idea of Google AdWords account countdown scripts, yet aren’t confident enough to utilize AdWords scripts within your account, there’s good news for you. Google has released a new tool that allows publishers to add the countdown script into their ad copy. Countdown scripts are great to show urgency. Whether it is […]
Spanish News Publishers Using Google AdWords to Get Back Lost Google News Traffic
We now know how some publishers are reacting to Google closing Google News in response to the upcoming “Google Tax” law in Spain… they are attempting to get the traffic back from Google by running Google AdWords on the keyword “news.” El Mundo and ElEconomista are both currently advertising for “noticias”, which means “news”. Juan […]
Google Confirms Spanish Publishers Removed from Google News & Google News in Spain Closed
Google has confirmed that they did in fact close Google News in Spain and removed all Spanish publishers from Google News worldwide. Google made the closure announcement earlier this week, citing the so-called “Google Tax” that the government in Spain implemented that would require services such as Google News to pay publishers to include their […]