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Google Announce HTTPS as a Ranking Signal

On the 6th August 2014 Google announced that it would now be using https as a ranking signal, rewarding sites that have an active SSL Certificate securing a users browser connection site wide. The official announcement was made on Google’s Official Web Master Central blog on BlogSpot. The full article can be read here: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/https-as-ranking-signal.html. Initially Google say that https […]

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Google, PPC

Google AdWord Ads and Search Result Changes

Earlier in the year Google were investigated by the European Commission with regards to “competition concerns” within the EU when displaying search results. This investigation and subsequent report identified four key areas for improvement to Google’s Search Results to help make them more competitive. For the full report and details of the requested changes by the European Commission, view it […]

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Google, SEO

Google Toolbar PageRank Update 6th December 2013

There was speculation of a Google Toolbar PageRank (PR) update on on Friday 6th December 2013 which came as a surprise to the SEO industry following Matt Cutt’s response to a tweet earlier on in the year. Niels Bosch had asked Matt Cutt’s on Twitter if we could expect a Google PageRank update in 2013 as shown below. @mattcutts will […]

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