SearchCap: Google Panda 4.1 Continues, Reddit “In The News” & Local Business Videos

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google: Panda 4.1 Still Rolling Out Over the weekend, there was a tremendous amount of chatter within the SEO community, including discussion forums, social media…

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Google SafeSearch For Schools Now Supports HTTPS

Google’s Brian Fitzpatrick, Engineering Director, announced on the Google Security Blog that the Google SafeSearch feature that network administrators can force over their networks now supports HTTPS. That means if the network administrators upgrade to the new protocol, all searches over…

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Google: More First Page URLs In Search Results Are HTTPS Relative To The URLs On The Web

At Search Marketing Expo East, Google’s Gary Illyes presented on an HTTPS panel and shared some very interesting data and history on Google’s HTTPS ranking signal. Page One Search Results More Likely To Contain HTTPS Urls Gary explained that while only 10% of the crawled and discovered…

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Reaction: What SEOs Think About Facts & Answers Showing In Google Search Results

Last week, Google officially rolled out Structured Snippets, the search giant’s move to show snippets of relevant data directly in its search results. According to Google, the content being displayed is powered by its Knowledge Graph, as well as other data sources. As Search Engine Land news…

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SearchCap: Bing Lyrics, Google HTTPS Stats & SEMPO Code Of Ethics

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Starts Showing Full Song Lyrics Right In Search Results While SEOs debate Google’s recent addition of structured data in its search results, Bing is making a…

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SearchCap: Google Penguin Coming Soon, Bing No To HTTPS Boost & Nude Celeb Photos Sue Google

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google: Penguin Refresh May Come As Early As Next Week Google’s Gary Illyes, Webmaster Trends Analyst and Search Quality Engineer, said at Search Marketing Expo…

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To Avoid Liability, Google Limits German News Content To Headlines

German news and magazine publishers are determined, one way or another, to get Google to pay them for their content. They’re not upset about the content appearing in Google News or search. They want it to appear – they just want Google to pay for it. Google doesn’t want to pay….

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A New Click Through Rate Study For Google Organic Results

Advanced Web Ranking has released a study showing fresh data on the click-through-rate from Google’s organic search results. The data was taken from Google Webmaster Tools Search Queries reports from large accounts back in July 2014. On average, 71.33% of searches resulted in a page one…

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SearchCap: Google AdWords Automatic Item Updates, Google Smartphone Icons & More

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Introduces Automatic Item Updates For PLAs Up to now, Google has systematically disapproved product listing ads when retailers had price or inventory…

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SearchCap: Google Panda Losers, Right To Be Forgotten & Google’s 16th Birthday

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: An AdWords Script To Make Exact Match, Well…Exact Many of you will have heard about Google’s decision to terminate exact match (at the same time as telling…

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