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Google made HTTPS a ranking signal in its algorithm about a year and a half ago. According to Moz, HTTPS URLs make up about 25% of page-1 results in the MozCast 10K. The 10K refers...

An Important Change To Google’s Panda

The Google Panda Update has been around for five years and has dominated more headlines than probably any other Google algorithm change over that time. It was so big that it transc...

Google Adds Local Business Editing To Knowledge Panel

Some businesses can now edit their Google business listings directly from the Knowledge Panel, without having to go to the Google My Business dashboard....

Alice Paul Gets Google Doodle Tribute On 131st Birthday

Alice Paul would have been 131 today, and Google is honoring the women's rights activist with a special doodle on its homepage and other search properties. Alice Paul led the 1...

Google Webmaster Guy Hasn’t Seen Penguin Yet

For a significant part of last year, we heard that Google's next Penguin update would likely happen before the end of the year. That didn't happen. Last month, Google finally...

Biz Stone’s Jelly Is Back With ‘Entirely New’ Approach

Two years ago, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone launched Jelly, a new Q&A ser...

Bing Talks 2016 Search Predictions, Looks At ’15 Trends

Microsoft is talking up the importance of search to marketers looking for "smart brand connections". In doing so, it shares a look at the top marketing buzzwords searched in th...

Google Search Console Adds New App Indexing Error Type

Last year, Google app indexing came into its own with the company officially making it a ranking signal and implementing it in iOS. Now, Google has announced a refresh of Andro...

Google Invites You To Try AMP Features in Search Console

Google recently said that it will start sending search traffic to Accelerated Mobile Pages sometime in late February. Just ahead of the holidays, Google was found to already be sho...

Twitter Authority And Google Search

Early last year, Google and Twitter formed a partnership giving Google full access t...

Google Now Offers A Knowledge Graph Search API

Google's Freebase recently announced the Knowledge Graph Search API, which will enable developers to query the Knowledge Graph for entities. The API uses standard schema.org ty...

Accelerated Mobile Page Errors Shown in Google Search Console

Accelerated Mobile Pages will start sending search traffic from Google search results sometime in late February. This is likely to be one of the biggest changes to Google search in...

What Google Says About SEO in 2016

SEO is an ever-changing industry as search engines (Google in particular) evolve to some extent every single day. Google makes algorithm changes on a daily basis, and every now and...

Yahoo Updates Mobile Web Search

Yahoo announced some updates to Yahoo Search on the mobile web with new Twitter integration, new image search, a results refresh, and AMP compatibility. "Before 2015 comes to a...

Study Looks At How Well Backlink Tools Work

Stone Temple Consulting has been releasing a lot of great research in the SEO space throughout 2015. They've provided thoughtful analysis of...