Myths, Benefits & Next Steps In case you missed it Google made some major changes last week (seems I say that a lot eh?). We haven’t seen them roll out in AU yet but I got a chance to have a look at them & have a bit of a play. When they were launched […]

Google made a whopping 30 changes in December last year. While not all of them relate specifically to ranking, there are definite themes emerging. Today Google also started rolling out “Search plus your world“, a major change to the way Google formats and personalises results for it’s users. To make sure you’re ready for both […]

For the first week back of the new year I have a look at last years prediction that a lot of our online freedoms would be attacked by Governments around the world. Certainly that was proven to be true and continues. What we have seen in retaliation to those threats is a corresponding rise in […]

If you personally want to rank in Google news you could simply be a potty mouth on ABC live TV during Children’s viewing times. That’s what our Communications Minister, Senator Stephen “I’ll protect you’re children online… help I’m locked out of my iPhone” Conroy did yesterday. It was interesting to watch what Google chose to […]

Twitter Gets a Makeover Twitter unveiled a design overhaul early Friday morning aimed at streamlining the popular social service. Ditching the two-panel design introduced just over a year ago, Twitter’s new interface cleans up the clutter and designed a new navigation system to find what you’re looking for in Twitter. Recognising the different ways in […]

Twitter announced a major design overhaul earlier this morning, ditching their current dual-panel design for a simpler and easier to use interface. While the ‘New Twitter’ design that debuted last year tried to pack everything into one place, the redesign unveiled today targets the different types of users on the popular microblogging service. Power users […]

New Zealand Facebookers are in for a surprise today, with the social giant rolling out their long-awaited Timeline profile redesign to the country exclusively this morning. While Timeline has been in beta for Facebook third-party developers for some time, New Zealand will serve as the primary testing ground for the product’s rollout. To many tech […]

Yes I know, I used SEO as a verb. Google makes on average two changes to it’s algorithm a day! Keeping up with them? In order to help webmasters stay on top of these changes they have started publishing the most significant changes on a monthly basis. The reason for this (IMHO) is that the […]

Google Ditches the Black Navigation Bar I’ve made no secret about my hatred of Google’s black navigation bar. I hate it so much I even contemplated a switch to Bing when it rolled out. Answering all my prayers, Google rolled out a major design change late last week, abolishing the black bar to the depths […]

Last month Google let us take a peek behind the curtain of their search algorithm when they took the wraps off ten recent algorithm changes on their Inside Search blog. It was a surprising change from Google’s usually secretive ways that has now led to a monthly series due to overwhelming positive feedback The search […]