CcMw6IKPOnI, This week in Search (news) – March 18 2016, The first installment in our new series covering all the latest search and SEO news each week. Some of the stories we covered this week include;

General Topics;

http://marketingland.com/google-estimates-25-sites-now-use-secure-connections-168763
http://searchengineland.com/teacher-didnt-tell-optimizing-site-speed-244128
http://www.thesempost.com/sites-penguin-cannot-request-manual-refresh/ LOL
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-text-in-images-21787.html

On Manual actions;

All Google Manual Actions Send Warnings to Site Owners

Google Manual Actions Do Not Last Forever; But Can Be Reapplied

Google on Blogger Product reviews;

https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2016/03/best-practices-for-bloggers-reviewing.html
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/271084/google-warns-bloggers-brands-of-tainted-posts.html

Google Warns Bloggers on Promo Links But No New Manual Action Coming

Convo of the week; RankBrain

https://www.distilled.net/resources/google-to-announce-that-links-are-no-longer-a-major-ranking-factor/

RankBrain Does Not Impact Site’s Crawl Budget

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-rankbrain-links-21781.html