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You may have missed the announcement last week that Google killed off Authorship. They did not make a big song and dance about it, just quietly took it out the back and choked the life out of it. As many viewers will know I have been a big advocate of the IDEA of authorship because […]
In the immortal words of Monty Python’s Brian, “A Lot” and it’s getting worse. Last year one of the Beers Blokes & Business podcasts was dedicated to LinkedIn. I came out on the side of it being a spammers/recruiters paradise which is great if you are selling stuff or looking for staff right? I also got […]
Well this one was a bit weird. Back at the end of July there was a few stories around about a Google update code named “Pigeon”. This is not to be confused with the old PigeonRank April Fools day prank from Google. In fact Google has said little about this update publicly. It was first […]
I hate to add to the “hey it’s only 100 days until Christmas” chorus but I usually get asked these questions in October when they should have been implemented in August. 1. Get A Blog As the old saying goes, “The best time to plant an oak tree was 20 years ago, the second best […]
Google have been banging on about https as a ranking signal for quite some time (and so have I). Well it became official last week. Here’s what you need to know. 1. Get an SSL certificate for your web server. For most businesses you will get these through your hosting company. They can cost between […]
Following on from the so called “faulty redirects” Google is now issuing these notices for sites where they have found an old page in the index that is now redirecting smartphone users to the home page. Previously we’d only seen these notices where smart phone users had clicked on a desktop result then had been […]
It was just a few weeks ago that Google started issuing notices about smartphone faulty redirects. Now we’re seeing the warnings increase and sites getting removed from mobile search if they are doing the so called “faulty redirect” . BigW recently launched a new site and now has at least three sites that I can […]
I have had reason to investigate speeding fine laws recently and I noticed a few people trying to sell information products in the space but it turns out they were targeting the wrong people. In todays video I use two tools that are free and I use all the time for SEO. 1. Google Trends […]
Some people think that it is a bad thing. I would argue it is quite necessary. As you will see from today’s show sometimes Google goes to places you just don’t want it going and I don’t mean emotionally either. At the very least you should be directing Google where you want it to go. […]
If you saw my short cryptic post yesterday about Enrico Altavilla this is the follow up to it. IN today’s show I have been messing around with a technique that he recently wrote about. It’s not only a bit of fun but quite useful as well. Index me “Any time” As Enrico pointed out in […]
