SEO News - Oct 2014 By : Saijo George

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.. and you are ?

• I am Saijo George. I work as an internet marketer at Envato , the folks behind sites like ThemeForest.

• You can follow me on @Saijo_George, and checkout some of the stuff I write about on saijogeorge.com and a few other industry blogs.

• I have also launched some cool stuff like a list of SEO tools , AllTheFreeStock.com, …

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• Google is testing sponsored carousels ads – Google+

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Google testing smartphone icon in SERP – Google+ , Twitter

Age and geographical restrictions for Google+ pages

Auto update AdWords PLAs with schema markup - InsideAdwords

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Google Bot uses Connect Time & HTTP Status Codes as crawl signals

Dynamic Remarketing Ads expands to more verticals including hotels, flights, real estate, classifieds, jobs, auto, finance and education.

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Google Germany faces legal action from publisher to remove text snippet and preview images from Google News. Guess what happened in the end?

broken SSL certificates / content mismatch errors will stop getting a ranking boot in SERP. Google might not update the ToolBar PageRank - John Mueller

Warning for Flash-heavy pages on mobile SERPs start rolling out globally – Pierre Far

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Google News Box shows non Google news content like Twitter and Reddit – SELCustom Affinity Audiences in Google Display Network ( on top of affinity and in-market audiences )

WSJ : Ads + SE == Deceptive

Eric Schmidt –admits biggest search competitor is Amazon

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• Card style format for local results from some verticals ( Test ) – G+

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Take your business online Video series by Maile Ohye from Google. New Mobile App for Google My Business

Webmaster Tools Site-move tool gets a setup wizard like makeover

Voice Search Infographics from Google : 55% of teens and 41% of adults use voice search more than once a day.

local search ranking factors for 2014 by David Mihm from Moz – click-through rates, checkins, user location, domain authority, consistency of unlinked citation on authoritative sources, etc

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• Bing adds location cards, flight cards, etc to Cortana. Duane Forrester made redundant.

• Enhancement for in-app display ad campaigns that enables app developers and marketers to show ads to people who have made in-app purchases through the Play Store. New reports for Automated extensions.

• <meta name="google" content="nositelinkssearchbox"> - to disable sitelink searchbox

• Do NOT block Google from crawling your CSS or JavaScript

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• Google Penguin – 17th Oct. Progressive worldwide rollout. It was a data refresh which means sites who has actively worked to clean up their backlink profile should see results, and new spammy sites will be demoted. No new signals were added to the algorithm.

• Update to DMCA algo ( 17th ) – improved algo, demote sites with high valid DMCA takedown requests, removed auto complete terms , ads

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• SSL 3.0 POODLE vulnerability - Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption

• Google to discontinue AdSense Direct on November 25

• GWT gives you Mobile Usability Errors

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