Google Gives Precedence to HTTPS in Search

Google have just announced that they are giving even greater precedence to HTTPS* pages in search results.

The announcement, on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog, Indexing HTTPS pages by default, even goes as far as saying that even if you have HTTP and HTTPS that it will choose the HTTPS versions of your pages.

It’s in this bit here;

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My Thoughts on Guest Blogging

My thoughts on guest blogging represented by typewriter keysEvery once in a while something crops up in the world of search marketing that really piques my interest. Caffeine, Hilltop, Panda, Penguin and Hummingbird and all those updates and refreshes in all their versions, if appropriate, are usually talked about ad nauseam and there’s often little to be added to the conversation because there’s nothing new to be said or you’re probably a heretic for saying something different.

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