You’ve probably heard the buzz about Google+, the new invite only social networking site, but if you’re a man looking for love you might have a tough job ahead of you. I have seen several people on Facebook already offering invites to interested contacts, and with over 10 million members Google+ is looking to be [...]
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Google Updates Toolbar PageRank
Yesterday Google updated toolbar PageRank (TBPR), with many sites seeing a change over the last 24 hours. Whilst the majority of SEO’s (rightly) don’t pay too much attention to TBPR anymore, it’s notable purely as it’s been a considerable amount of time since the update of this kind from the search giant. The reason most [...]
Google Denies Intentionally Demoting Ciao With The Panda Update
There’s been a huge amount of debate and speculation around Google’s Panda update, which was rolled out in the UK on the 11th April. Since the update, a considerable number of sites have seen their rankings either drop or improve substantially, with a handful suffering search visibility drops in excess of 90%. One such site [...]
The Panda UK Update Winners And Losers
I’ve been writing a fair bit about Google’s Panda update over the last month or so, as it seems have scores of other SEO’s from around the country (particularly now that the update has been officially rolled out in the United Kingdom). It’s easy to see why – the US update affected around 12% of [...]
Do URL Shorteners Pass Link Juice And Anchor Text?
We actually get asked this by clients quite a bit during our integrated SEO and social media campaigns, and it seems clients aren’t the only one asking – after my usual perusal of Google’s Webmaster Help YouTube Channel, I came across the same question being answered by Matt Cutts. So, realising that I’m unlikely to [...]
Panda Update Rolled Out Globally To All English-Language Google Users
Yesterday, a post on the Google Webmaster Central blog confirmed that the Panda update has now been rolled out globally; affecting all English language based searches on Google across the world. Everyone in the UK SEO industry has been speculating for some time now about exactly when the Panda update would hit our SERPS, after [...]
What Should You Do If You’ve Been Hit By The Farmer / Panda Update?
I’ve already written a fairly in-depth post on how Google’s most recent update has affected SEO, which concentrated on avoiding penalties in the future and improving your SEO campaigns with the farmer/panda update in mind. Since the publication of that post however, I’ve had a few emails from people asking what you can do if [...]
Google’s +1, The Next Stage Of Social Search?
As far as social media goes, Google hasn’t had the best of times. If we take a quick look at the history of their social ventures we can see that nearly all of them have faded into obscurity, or been amalgamated into other services. The list goes as follows: – Orkut. The first of Google’s [...]
Google April Fools
We were expecting something interesting from Google this morning, given that it’s April 1st, and we weren’t disappointed when we saw a page for Google Motion – ‘a new way to communicate’. The mouse and keyboard were invented before the Internet even existed. Since then, countless technological advancements have allowed for much more efficient human [...]
Improving Your Site Architecture For SEO
Site architecture is an important SEO element, and one that is often overlooked (particularly as the site grows and extraneous pages and are consistently added). You probably start with a nice, flat architecture when your website is created, but over time this architecture can easily become far more complicated, giving you pages which are far [...]
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