Update Vanity URL’s are now being rolled out, have a look at the headline strap on your profile if you can claim your URL. A recent post by Saurabh Sharma at Google gave examples of vanity URL’s becoming available for Google+ for profiles and pages, she cited examples of brands and celebrities. Until now the only way to get…read more →
So it begins, Google to kill off organic data to webmasters for logged in users, I won’t re-hash and rant as there are plenty of useful posts out there. I will provide a quick summary though, the data is still there but Google only offering aggregated data through Webmaster Tools but as mentioned by Barry Schwartz on Search Engine Roundtable, it’s…read more →
Quick post, it has been announced that a Google algorithm update is to happen in the US only for now but the recent Chrome block sites extension has helped identify 84% of blocked sites match in the algo. What does this mean? Potentially for UK SERPS in the future sites that may be marked as link selling or spam sites…read more →
Latest webmaster video from Matt Cutts explains that the site:domain search only shows 3 significant digits or pages indexed, for example if your site: query returns over a thousand pages then only the 1st 3 are indicative of the actual number. Watch the video: Ciao for now
May not be teaching old dogs new tricks, but here is a quick post about utilising the querystring parameters in Google search. The Google search url is made up of a number of parameters, the & symbol is used to add parameters as shown in the following example: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=football+world+cup&btnG=Search hl=en – this defines the language. en is for English. q=football+world+cup – this…read more →
Google have now made the Webmaster Verification process a lot simpler. If you own a site and want multiple people to be able to view the WMT information of your site, you would have had to add multiple html files or multiple meta tags which would make the process quite a lengthy one and also more difficult to manage. Google…read more →
Has anyone noticed that the product results in Google have been showing images and not directly linkg through to the site? A post from the Head of SEO at Latitude, Andy Heaps posted back in December about how Latitude joke about Google’s money making levers – “if profits are down or shareholders unhappy they pick a money generating lever and…read more →
So it seems there has been a PageRank update this week, finally Organic Search SEO is a PR1 now! Working on some SEO clients and happy to see that the one of my clients has seen the whole site go from PR2 to PR3. Has anyone seen any surprising PR updates?
Duplicate Content Issues The 3 major search engines, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, have just announced a new tag that can tell the search engines which URL it should have for the current page. The issue websites have is duplicate content, the same content is indexed under different URL’s. This is an issue SEO’s have been trying to solve for a…read more →
It has come to light over the past week or so that Google.co.jp has been caught paying bloggers to write about them to help improve their hold in the Japanese market as Yahoo are strong in Japan. Now, as we know Google does not like link buying and has penalized sites for doing this with search ranking penalties. To my…read more →