Search Engine News

Google announced yesterday that encrypted search is expanding internationally for signed in Google customers. That implies you could expect to find less search query data because of the default safe socket layer (SSL) Google has enabled on these searches.

Google will introduce SSL encryption on Google’s neighborhood domains in the next few weeks. Launched  in October, Google encrypted search only affected google.com. Now that will broaden to other localized Google domains (e.g., www.google.de, www.google.co.in), though Google’s short announcement lacked any timeline specifics.
Google touts the increased privacy and protection of encrypting search queries and search outcomes pages via HTTPs by default, it must be noted that Google’s advertisers nevertheless can gain entry to search term referrer information. Encrypted search is accessible on Google’s neighborhood domains (guess Youtube or Google+), but it’s not enabled by default.

Encrypted search paved the way in which for your launch of Google’s Search Plus Your World, as Google aimed to protect the privacy of customers in preparation of an increased emphasis on personalized search outcomes. 1 month before the debut of encrypted search, researchers showed how attackers could acquire access for the search historical past and get in touch with facts of Google users applying the Firesheep extension.

The arrival of secure search also brought not provided keywords targeted traffic information in Google Analytics into the spotlight. Though at first encrypted search was supposed to only have an effect on searches within a single-digit percentages, some web sites that depend far more on organic visitors from Google have observed upwards of 25% of keywords and phrases reported in Google Analytics as “(not supplied)”.

oogle has re-launched its AdWords Help Forum on a new system and given it its own URL: www.en.adwords-community.com. That deal with redirects into a lengthier URL where guests are welcomed to “the official Google AdWords Community.”

AdWords-Community.com was certainly one of a number of domains that Google recently registered, a listing that incorporated many variants such as adwordscommunity.com, www.adwordscommunities.com and community-adwords.com. As of the moment, none in the other domains solve.

Guests for the previous AdWords Support Discussion board are able to search via the archives, but Google features a major, yellow inform box pointing them to the new domain/forum.

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Right now there are several early reports that a Google PageRank update is underway.

We have got several threads at DigitalPoint Forums, WebmasterWorld as well as a number of other forums of people reporting a PageRank update. I haven’t examined my own sites!

The previous PageRank update was in November,  only three months ago ( before that in August). So Google tries to stick to a 3 month PageRank update cycle, when they remember to push out the update.

As I said after that last update: “Google keeps telling these people not to worry in regard to PageRank but SEOs don’t hear  . These people think SEO is all about PageRank, when you and I know it has quite little to do with PageRank. Particularly Toolbar PageRank which is only utilized by Google’s marketing department.”

Anyway, I expect your PageRank in your Toolbar was put up or remained the same. Although it provides no immediate effect upon search positions as well as is way out of date, numerous webmasters as well as SEOs take pride in their Toolbar PageRank. Thats fair…