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The Rank Risk Index has been in the danger zone for more than a week, indicating that something's brewing at Google. We're hearing reports of drops in rank of 50% or more for certain niche sites. Has there been another upstream copyright infringement update or is this something different? What have you heard or experienced?

If you spend much time reading about SEO, you are sure to run across people talking about a variety of tactics and organizing them into the categories of white, black, and grey hat SEO. If you take some time to think about what Google tells us, which is any link building intended to manipulate the SERPs is not an approved tactic, it won’t take long to realize that the only true white hat SEO is writing content and hoping for the best. I don’t know about you, but writing and hoping does not seem like much of a strategy to me.

Every customer wants to speak to someone directly when they are having issues and it's up to the company to make that as easy as possible. That's why Google wants to help you out with this by including your phone number in your knowledge graph on a SERP.

Yesterday the rumors proved to be true as Google announced that it would be expanding Not Provided keywords to also apply to AdWords campaigns in an attempt to improve privacy for users.

Twitter is rolling out a new profile that will allow users to show themselves better. The new profile includes a large cover photo and more features, including pinned tweets, to personalize your page.

Twitter is keeping in the game by bringing in 15 new types of ads to entice advertisers to use their platform to gain a larger customer base. With their great targeting methods this is sure to be the next big way to reach users that you want.

We saw some fluctuations that were higher than usual in our Rank Risk Index March 25 and 26, and are wondering what Google could be up to. 

Rank Ranger is dedicated to making sure that our platform gives you everything you need with the most in-depth information possible. We have therefore revamped the visual representation of Dashboard Reports by including icons for you to see if a website ranked with any 'different' Google results, including news, local places, authorship, ratings, video and events results.

Google offers more information than ever before on their SERP's, including performance dates for your favorite artists. Now these performance dates will be the official dates, coming directly from the musical artists' websites. This gives the musicians another platform to promote their live performances and gives users more information by simply viewing a SERP, rather than having to look through a website for the correct information.

Yahoo Maps is going indoors! Now on Yahoo Maps you can search around the globe and see floor plans of buildings such as shopping malls, train stations and airports. Yahoo is helping you find your destination, no matter where you are.

Matt Cutts is back with another very refreshing and informative session. Ever find yourself wondering if social signals from Facebook and Twitter are tracked by the Google algorithm?  At one time Google did track the signals, and they used Twitter and Facebook links in rankings.

New Google Analytic Updates!   Google has added new features to their Google Analytic tools. Remarketing lets you re-engage with your site visitors using the power of Google Analytics and the reach of the Google Display Network.