There has been a definite increase in the number of reports on webmaster forums, including the Google ones, and many of the reports involve the popular WordPress plugin Wordfence. Google has never published a list of IPs they crawl from, as those IPs can change at any time. They also have bots used for specific […]
Archives for April 14, 2015
How Hot Is Video Ad Buying and Marketing Technology? Follow the Money!
If marketers want to know how hot video ad buying and marketing technology has become, then they should listen to the advice of Deep Throat, the informant who helped reveal the Watergate Scandal: “Follow the money.” Recently, three companies in this sector have announced new rounds of funding, indicating that investors think video ad buying […]
Google’s Change to Chrome Showing non-HTTPS Site Warnings Launching in Chrome 42
Ilya Grigorik from Google has posted a reminder that Chrome 42, the browser’s next stable build, will start displaying expired certificates. We have known for some time that Google was making the change, as back in January they announced that Google would begin flagging non-HTTPS sites in an upcoming build. Google recommends downloading Chrome Canary […]
Google Showing Specific Product Answer Box with Amazon Link for Generic Product Searches
We have seen Google display answer boxes for some highly competitive search terms before, but now they are showing specific products with a commercial link to buy the product, but for when searchers aren’t searching for that specific product, but when searching for a general product query instead. CognitiveSEO was the first to spot the […]