Full Song Lyrics In Bing Search Results
Bing now appears to be showing full song lyrics in the search results for most popular artists. Bing’s use of song lyrics directly in the SERPs is similar to Google’s recent “structured data” efforts. Presently, full song lyrics are only showing for US searchers however Bing plans to expand this outside the US over the next few months.
Google Authorship Ends
** UPDATE ** So What Actually Happened to Google Authorship? Not enough people were using Authorship for Google to use it as valid indicator in search. The primary reason seems to be low adoption by content creators. Google has officially ended its authorship bylines from displayuing within the search results. Additionally, Google will cease tracking content written by authors as tied by the author’s G+ profile. Google may choose to...
Does Google Index Hashtags
Test page without hashtag in URL If you want to scroll to the Print section use the hash print. B E L O W I S T H E P R I N T P A G E S E C T I O N Printing Support T H I S I S T H E P R I N T...
Google uses HTTPS as a ranking signal
On Wednesday August 06 2014, Google announced that they have been running tests taking into account whether sites use secure, encrypted connections as a signal in our search ranking algorithms. “We’re starting to use HTTPS as a ranking signal. For now it’s only a very lightweight signal — affecting fewer than 1% of global queries, and carrying less weight than other signals such as high-quality content — while we...
Google Plus Profiles Now In Google Search Suggest
Google Plus now allows you to vanity search names and click direct through to a Google Plus Profile. I’m now outranking Brad Pitt! Author: brad forster