Starting in December, Google Chrome will begin to start blocking mixed content. If you've not tightened that up yet, things on your site might start breaking.

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Google makes hundreds of small updates to their search algorithm each year, but their newest one is one of the biggest we've seen in a while.

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Links pointing to your site will never expire in the eyes of Google, but may become less valuable over time.

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Google's John Mueller caused quite a stir recently when he asked why agencies often don't show their mailing address on their sites.

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Along with the hidden XML sitemaps, many sites publish an HTML sitemap to help their rankings. Google says it doesn't help.

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There are a number of reasons you might want to change your web host, but if you do it correctly it won't affect your Google rankings at all.

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There's been much debate over the years about whether or not you should include dates in your URLs; Google says it does't really matter.

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The nofollow attribute has been around for about a decade, and was fairly simple to understand, but it just became a lot more nuanced.

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Depending on the nature of your site, setting up structured data for it could be important. Even if you do, though, it won't directly impact your rankings.

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A new study has shown that the way many blogs are set up may be making a major mistake that is impacting their rankings.

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