When Google skipped their June search quality highlights, many SEOs didn’t know whether to consider it a good or a bad thing. Now that they’ve released a list of 86 changes, a lot of them dealing with updates the their indexing algorithm, we can see some webmaster’s should expect a slight shake in their rankings. […]
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After a near two month break, Google finally decided to release its normally monthly Search Quality Highlights, the list of changes to its interface, algorithm and search behaviour. They certainly weren’t slacking off though, with a list of 86 changes. We highlight some below. The changes look to affect the rankings in a variety of […]
Many people who practice SEO think that the most turbulent times in the rankings are when existing algorithms are updated monthly and more gravely, when completely new algorithms are released, such as Panda, Penguin and Venice. However, when you consider that in 2010 Google admitted to applying over 500 changes to their algorithm, you can […]
Complaints on Google’s blog have spiked recently, concerning the unexplained disappearance of reviews on certain Business Pages in Google+ Local. The disappearances are apparently largely without reason. Google’s public statement on the matter stated that they were looking into the problem and would try find a solution, in due time. These words are of little […]
Google began offering their browser based e-mail service, Gmail, in 2007 and although its market share is still relatively small compared to its competitors (7% by the last count), it is still the fastest growing email service in the world. This is partly due to all the extra services they offer free of charge such […]
Since the release of Google’s two latest algorithms Panda and, more recently, Penguin, many have speculated that all forms of SEO are gradually coming into their cross-hairs. It was particularly threatening when they announced that Penguin would specifically be targeting over-optimisation. But what they meant by that, was that more subtly unethical SEO practices would […]
A recent study by SEO Software company, WordStream has revealed some interesting results of Google’s recent intense focus on web spam and the effectiveness of pay-per-click advertising as opposed to organic SEO. These were based on a study of 1000 Google Ads accounts over a period of 60 days. Some auxiliary data was also taken into […]
It’s been publicised by Mozilla (operator of Firefox) as a great leap forward in web privacy practices. The latest update to their browser included a feature that made all search terms submitted when using their browser, encrypted. Essentially they were saying that all search activity when using Firefox, would be kept out of the hands […]
In a recent interview between Eric Enge and Matt Cutts, head of the Search Quality Team at Google, they explored some of the recent concerns SEO practitioners have had since Google released Penguin, which plans to progressively change the way they would index content in the future. We look at some of the search engine optimisation […]
The new image search interface was launched last year along with Google Voice Search for Android, and was very well received. It gave people the option to search for a topic based on a picture they had, whether to find a better quality version of the image, finding source of the picture or just looking […]
