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Whooa big change today. On Wednesday our Head of Development Jine, noticed that the “places” menu item had disappeared from Google. This is a capture from my video of April 16. It was there on Wednesday morning as well as we use it a lot to edit and find clients places listings quickly. Then in […]
Google are usually pretty coy and vague when they talk about keyword specifics. You may remember last year I did a post and video on Michael Jones of Google and how he basically said don’t worry about your keywords. Earlier this year Google hinted at this again in the SEO Cheat Sheet where they said […]
Google continually changes the rules for their products. Back in 2005 I used to do a lot of adwords for myself. This was before I had staff or office rent. Back then I was able to sell other people’s products and not even have my own website. It was great fun. Every month I used […]
Back in 2008 or 2009 when Google Maps was trasitioning into Google Places a lot of us SEOs tried to be too clever for our own good. We put our keywords in our business name, stuffed them into every nook & cranny we could find in the places dashboard. I even setup a PO Box […]
We work on a lot of ecommerce sites SEO. By far the biggest issue we see are 404 errors. 404 errors are bad for SEO If Google comes to your site and finds a lot of missing pages, which is what 404 erros are, it essentially sees a faulty site. If all your competitors have […]
You may have missed a small announcement by Google last week about an Adwords policy change. It only caught my eye because Chris Morley of onlinemarketexperts.com did a post about it. It all started back in 2005. PPC 2005 style. Not a lot has changed in Google Adwords since 2005. Sure there’s been a lot […]
Yesterday a report was released by Portent, an agency based in Seattle. They have observed that it looks as though Google’s ability to better detect spam links has become stronger. This was one of the original reasons for the Penguin update nearly a year ago. An article in Search Engine Watch about the report has […]
For a lot of us now “not provided” is the dominant referring keyword in our Google analytics organic keyword stats. This is because Google is not delivering the keyword that was typed into Google that delivered you the hit if the user was logged into Google at the time. This includes if they were logged […]
Google launched a a presentation last week on how search works. The most fascinating part was how Google fights spam, not because of the techniques but because they give you samples of pages they are rejecting in almost real time. Watch the video for the details. We regularly speak to customers whose sites have dropped […]
Interflora found out last week that paid backlinks help get your ranked and then condemn you to search oblivion when Google detects what you’re doing. Interflora in the UK bought a series of advertorials across a bunch of news outlets to help get ranked in the lead up to Valentines day. The best analysis I’ve […]
