Google has sent out a warning to webmasters that HTTP sites containing forms and other input fields will be marked Not Secure from October. Google says its Chrome browser will mark HTTP websites with input fields (such as contact forms or those that require login details) as not secure, starting later this year. The[…]
The nofollow tag is a way publishers can tell search engines not to count some of their links to other pages as “votes” in favor of that content. Why would publishers need to block such votes? Doing so can help them avoid problems with search engines believing they are selling influence or are somehow involved[…]
Consumers are searching, doing and buying on their mobile devices, yet the challenge to reach them seems greater than ever. Columnist Wesley Young of the Local Search Association takes a look at 9 stats that suggest ways to improve your capture rate. Getting the attention of today’s consumer is harder than ever before. They are[…]
On a Friday, February 19, 2016, Google confirmed that search results pages on desktop will no longer show text ads in the right sidebar. Instead, as many as four text ads will display above the organic listings, and three text ads will show at the bottom of the page. There will certainly be a lot of analysis[…]
Bing is embracing Expanded Text Ads, the longer text ad format that Google is currently testing and plans to roll out in the coming months. On its quarterly API call, Bing Ads program managers announced Tuesday that it will be supporting ETAs, which means advertisers that advertise on both Bing and Google won’t have to straddle the new and[…]
The new Google mobile-friendly algorithm is supposed to give an additional ranking boost for mobile-friendly websites in the mobile search results. You may have seen ranking and traffic changes from Google’s mobile search results to your site this week due to this update. If you are not mobile-friendly, or if you want to ensure that[…]