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This designation allows you to display a Trust Store bad directly on your website. Once customers click your badge, a pop up will show them how your site is graded regarding customer service and reliability.

Google has announced they are opening up their trusted store program to all merchants in the United States who want to apply.

It’s about time. Google is recommending the following configurations – sites that dynamically serve all devices on the same set of URLs, and sites that use responsive Web design.

This is a perfect example of what could emerge from the recent changes to Google Shopping. How long before they start charging for other things such as Google Maps?

I can’t speak for everyone, but I think a significant majority of merchants would agree that this is only going to hurt them and will be an impetus for moving to other search engines.

Hard to say, but the Google model has always relied on some free service (this is the heart of their business model really). By monetizing this aspect of the web, I think the organic searches will suffer a bit.

At the end of the day, this was a positive more and justified by the fact that this can only improve the customer experience.

It’s not entirely clear, but some are surmising that if merchants must pay to have content displayed in Google Shopping, they will be more vigilant in updating their data feeds (thus, the shopper will have free, up to date information to rely on).

This came as a huge surprise to many of us, but Google has officially stopped free product search and switched over 100% to paid inclusion (called Google Shopping).

It has been confirmed by the company itself that they will work with you if you reach out to them in good faith and do an honest audit of your site and attempt to remove the bad links.

Difficult question to answer as they target different things. Penguin focuses on over optimization while Panda is more concerned with originality and relevance. Sometimes the two can cross over though.

The latest update targets many things including over optimization and aggressive webspam, so make sure to do an audit of your links if you haven’t already.

Google recently tweeted that they did a Pandora refresh in June which will impact about 1% of total searches worldwide (not an insignificant number).

According to Matt Cutts, the latest update will really only impact less than .1% (of English searches that is). It has been confirmed that Google has rolled out Panda 3.7.

The latest panda and penguin updates continues to punish sites, and Google continues to add minor tweaks to the algorithm to smoke out the spammers.