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Google ended its three-year experiment with Google Authorship yesterday, but the use of Author Rank to improve search results will continue. Wait — you can have Author Rank without Google Authorship? And just what is Google Authorship versus Author Rank? Come along, because they are different things — and Author Rank lives on. What Google Authorship Was

Google Authorship was primarily Google’s way to allow the authors of content to identify themselves for display purposes. You asserted it...

Regular readers will know that I’ve been experimenting with sponsorships on the site for a while, but I haven’t really talked about it. So I wanted to write a short note to say that, yes, I’m officially accepting sponsorships on Elezea now as a way to support my writing.

If you’re interested in sponsoring my writing for a week, you can find out more about sponsorship here (including what you get in return). If you know of anyone who might want to share their product with a bunch of really...

Last night, Google's John Mueller was tasked to announce on his personal Google+ account that Google has dropped support for authorship, completely.

Yes, completely. They simply removed it from their search results interface and from behind the scenes...

I know, the boy who cried wolf, but my job here is to bring to you what the SEO community is buzzing about and they are buzzing about a possible Google Penguin update, or at least Google testing things that may imply Google is pushing out a Penguin update.
Didn't I expect Penguin to be launched...

The title from a Google patent reached out and grabbed me as I was skimming through Google’s patents. It has the kind of title that captures your attention, as a weapon in the war that Google wages against people who might try to spam the search...

@rgomezric spotted a new Bing user interface test, where they moved the navigation bar below the search box.
Bing is testing three different flavors of this test and @rgomezric captured all of them.

Yahoo is testing a new design for their search results page. The new design is drastically different, making the layout much more boxed in, more like a card look...

As usual, Frank Chimero manages to capture what a lot of people in our neck of the woods are thinking in From the Porch to the Street. It’s an interesting, considered lament about how Twitter has changed, but it’s this part in particular that caught my attention:

Have you heard of evaporative social cooling? It says the people who provide the most value to a social group or organization eventually burn out and leave, undermining the stability and progress of the group. Most of my...

As you know, Google is giving a tiny ranking boost to HTTPS URLs.
But I was under the impression the HTTPS URLs must be really secure and that broken/invalid SSL certificates and content mismatch errors would invalidate the ranking boost. I was wrong!