Earlier on this month Google announced that SSL-secured websites will receive a small ranking boost. Since then I have even converted the majority of Rapid Purple to run over an HTTPS connection. If you’ve been going through the conversion process yourself lately here’s a bit of news that Barry Schwartz found out which might make your […]
Category Archives: Webmaster News
Warning: Beware Of Fake GoDaddy Emails
There is a new phishing scam that has been making the e-mail rounds this month. It’s made to resemble a GoDaddy email telling you that your account has too many directories. They attempt to get you to follow a link to automatically “fix” this issue – alas that link really points to a Russian domain […]
Introducing The Bing Image Widget
Bing has launched another widget for webmasters allowing you to easily incorporate image galleries and slideshows onto your website using the images within the Bing image search. You simply choose what keyword you want to pull images for, set your dimensions and style settings, choose whether you want a collage or a slideshow – and […]
2 Weeks Left To Make The Most Of Your eCig Related Google Adwords Ads
At the start of September Google announced a change to their Google Adwords policy banning the advertisement of electronic cigarettes, airsoft guns, paintball guns, bb guns, gun scopes, ammunition …
I Get To Play With Google Domains
Google sent me over an invite to the new Google Domains beta a few days ago and since then I’ve been playing around with the platform and getting familiar with it. After using it for a few days and going through the entire process to purchase a domain name and get it setup – I […]
Hey Photographers, Yahoo Wants You To Get Paid!
Late at the end of July Yahoo, quietly, released Curated Connections on Flickr – a program aimed at helping photographers to partner with photo agencies, editors, bloggers and other creative minds who are looking for original content. More-so Flickr seems to be taking on the grunt work here making it extremely easy to license your photos: […]
Google Updates Webmaster Guidelines to Include Guest Blogging
Google’s Matt Cutts announced back in January of this year the death of guest blogging – and since then Google has been sure to push the stake in deeper and deeper into the heart …
Russia Launches New Legislative Restrictions on Bloggers
As of August 1st, 2014 all blogs which have 3,000 daily readers or more will be forced to follow the same set of rules and standards as conventional mass media. The law was signed by Vladimir Putin back in May and and applies to all blogs written in Russian and targeting Russian audiences. So even […]
Knowledge Widget Now Integrated Into Bing Webmaster Tools
Back in April I had talked about the new Bing Knowledge Widget which allows any webmaster to bring the power of the Bing Knowledge repository directly to their website. Bing didn’t stop …
Bing Makes Technical Searches Easier
As a webmaster chances are pretty high that you’ve ran some technical searches in the past. Maybe you were reading through our tutorial series on Programming in C and wanted to dig deeper into a specific function; or maybe you were browsing through some of the software in our Free Webmasters Resource Directory and wanted […]
Starting Today Internet Explorer Starts Blocking Outdated ActiveX Controls
It’s always been a popular thing among webmasters to bash Internet Explorer – and truthfully there was always good reason for it. Lately however Microsoft has been hard at work …
Google Maps Will Have A Street View From Statue of Liberty
So this isn’t exactly webmaster news – however since Rapid Purple is based out of New York City it’s pretty exciting news for us that Google Maps has been given permission to map Ellis …
HTTPS Will Now Give You Ranking Benefits in Google
Google announced late last week that they are now using SSL/HTTPS as a small ranking signal within their Google search algorithm. Yes, a small ranking signal – or in the words of Google: “a very lightweight signal” which is shown to impact “fewer than 1% of global queries“. Google equated the SSL ranking signal with the Panda signal and […]
Bluehost Starts Testing New Shared Hosting Plans
As far as shared hosting goes Bluehost has always focused on one standard unlimited shared hosting plan – however as the hosting industry evolves Bluehost understands that they must as-well. The latest launch of Bluehosts’ WordPress hosting solution proves that. With that said Bluehost has announced plans to change to a three-plan model and introduce […]
Google Launches News Publisher Center
At the start of this week Google announced the launch of the Google News Publisher Center which is a pretty awesome tool for any news publisher. In the past news publishers would frequently loose traffic as they changed and upgraded their websites since Google News wouldn’t always discover the new structure. The only way to […]
Bing Launches Site Safety Page – Explains Why Some Sites Are Bad
In a recent post on the Bing Webmaster Blog they announced a new feature named the Bing Site Safety Page. The Bing Site Safety Page shows up within search results when a certain website displayed in the result set has been flagged by Bing for a potential safety issue. Bing will then show the searcher what the issue […]
Google Introduces Reviews for Product Listings
Those of you who actively utilize Google Shopping probably noticed that some of your search results look a bit different today. Those of you browsing Google within the United States will see product ratings appear in the form of stars and review counts on Product Listing Ads. This 5-star rating system represents aggregated rating and review data […]
New Domain Names for August 2014
Last month we had some great new domain name releases such as .consulting, .blackfriday, .christmas. This month we’re looking forward to some great new niche domain names like .actor and .dental. As usual you can register these new domain names at either Namecheap, 1&1 or GoDaddy. August 6th: .actor, .rocks, .wtf, .fail and .limited August 13th: .dental, .care, .clinic and .surgery August […]
An Update On The Spiral Hosting Acquisition of SpeedySparrow
[frame align=”right”][/frame]It’s always great to hear from Sean over at SpeedySparrow and just yesterday I had a chance to sit down and briefly chat with him about what’s been going on with SpeedySparrow recently – especially following the acquisition by Spiral Hosting. Originally the acquisition was intended to lead towards a merger of the two […]
Bluehost Hops On The WordPress Hosting Bandwagon
[frame align=”left”][/frame]Bluehost has made the jump onto the WordPress Hosting bandwagon and created their own managed WordPress hosting solution build around their proprietary VPS technology. So what does this mean? You get VPS power, NGINX architecture, custom PHP-FPM configuration and integrated caching by W3. Furthermore all plans come with SiteLock website scanning and the SiteLock […]