At the beginning of this month, Google announced their latest algorithm changes which included new ways of handling links, and more penalties for link exchanges and poor quality links. Usually, it’s very hard to even know whether or not you’ve been hit by a penalty, and Google is famously close-mouthed (or uncommunicative, depending on your […]
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According to the offical Google search blog, Google made 50 changes to their algorithm in March. Obviously that’s a lot more changes than we can go into here, but we’ll touch on a few of them that might have an impact on your SEO, or that just sound downright interesting. If you’d like to see […]
Earlier this week, Google announced that users would be able to track and monitor their own internet usage patterns for search and the full range of Google platforms, including YouTube, while signed into their Google account. According to Google product manager Andreas Tuerk, “Sometimes it’s helpful to step back and take stock of what you’re […]
According to a recent post by Search Engine People, several business owners have reported being called by Google, who appear to be carrying out checks on businesses with Google Places pages. I haven’t heard or seen anything of this here in SA, but it might be something to keep in mind, just in case you […]
At the end of last year, I wrote a short piece about Google’s latest change to the search page complete with screenshots and the (for me) rare admission that I actually quite liked a change that Google had made. Well, so much for that. Last week, Google announced that they’d changed the search page navigation […]
The SEO community was up in arms recently, following some unwise comments by a new Google employee, who, in commenting on a discussion about the Google Search+ and privacy policy changes, claimed that SEO wasn’t good for internet users. Google Says Nothing Wrong With SEO Naturally this caused some confusion, as Matt Cutts, head of […]
As we’ve described before, Google has taken the previously unprecedented step of releasing a monthly announcement, describing the changes that were made to its algorithm during the previous month. In keeping with Google’s policy of not revealing too much, the announcements are fairly general, but it’s still a good way of keeping track of what […]
We recently mentioned the Mocality scandal in which Google Kenya had been illegally accessing and using the database of a Kenyan firm in order to sell people into their GKBO offer to Kenyan businesses, as well as misrepresenting their association with that firm. Google responded quickly to the allegations by Mocality when they were first […]
Last week, Google announced the latest update to its algorithm on its Webmaster Central Blog, saying that this latest change looks at the layout of a web page, and takes note of the amount of content that is visible “above the fold.” According to the post by Matt Cutts, users have reported being unhappy if […]
In a bid to bring more businesses online, Google, in association with the Department of Trade and Industry, Vodacom, and the HRDC, is offering free websites to small and medium businesses who are looking for an online presence. All very noble and altruistic of course. However, a similar initiative, the “Get Kenyan Business Online” or […]
