Rapid Growth Tactics: A 6-Month Sprint To A Strong Backlink Profile [Webinar] via @sejournal, @hethr_campbell

A week or so ago, I reported that there was an issue with Google Search labeling real content pages as soft 404s, and thus not ranking those pages in Google Search. This bug directly seemed to have caused traffic issues for these sites. Well, that bug seems now to be mostly, if not fully, resolved.

Google Chrome to mark non-HTTPS sites as ‘not secure’ In 2018, Google announced it would identify all sites that had not migrated to HTTPS as “not secure” in the Chrome browser. Google had already been pushing webmasters to make the change to non-secure websites for years – including hinting at a small ranking boost to further incentivize the shift. According to Google, in 2018: Over 68% of Chrome traffic on both Android and Windows was protected Over 78% of Chrome traffic on both Chrome OS and Mac was protected […]

Google My Business offers support options on their web site and now it may even show you the hours of operation for those support channels. Here is a screen shot from Usama Ali on Twitter showing this support feature.