Seo: blog

Opinion: Google Personalised Search

09/12/2009 - 11:38
Google's newly launched personalised search has attracted little fanfare outside the SEO community, however it

Site Performance & Page Speed Report in Google Webmaster Tools

03/12/2009 - 13:04
Following Google's recent announcement that they will evaluate site/page

How to Rank in Google Using Boilerplate/Placeholder Text

01/12/2009 - 17:01
"Boilerplate" text is repeated generic text of the kind that search engines understandably don't like. Obvious examples are copyright statements and...

Google testing breadcrumb navigation in SERPS

17/11/2009 - 13:57
(Via WebmasterWorld) Google are currently running a limited-user test on a new SERP feature - instead of the result URL displayed in g

Google can't locate its own sites in 61% of cases

16/10/2009 - 13:40
Via SERoundtable I got a heads up on something going wrong with Google results for its own sites. If you search (for instance) for Google Ireland,...

SEO is evil. Again.

16/10/2009 - 10:41
There's a pervading theme in some sections of the web development community to slate SEO, and every 6-12 months, there's a flood of blog posts on the...

SEO bookmarklet: bypass Google's query expansion

15/10/2009 - 12:56
Most SEOs and many casual searchers will have noticed something Google do when you search, often called query expansion or query rewriting. At its...

When On-Page SEO Goes Wrong: Auto Trader

01/10/2009 - 15:20
My colleague, Nick Andrews pointed out to me that one of the largest sites in the UK car industry recently updated its design - Auto Trader. Of...

Display bug in Google sitelinks?

21/09/2009 - 13:22
At the moment, I'm seeing some strange quirks in Google's sitelinks display, most noticeably, odd replacement of English characters with (at a guess...

Inline Google API testing

25/06/2009 - 09:50
Do Internet Marketing Companies seem to think they KNOW something that you don't? If so - sorry about that. You happen to have stumbledupon a little...

Thoughts on SEO Content Writing

18/06/2009 - 15:29
If a website is a body then the content of the site is surely the heart & circulatory system.

Which search engine do you *really* like best?

17/06/2009 - 13:56
It's often hard to do away with personal bias when evaluating the quality of search results across different search engines

Google Webmaster Tools new interface

11/06/2009 - 16:32
Google's Webmaster Tools interface has undergone a big change today with a new visual design and recategorisation of many of the tools

Google confirming reconsideration requests via email

10/06/2009 - 16:29
Good news today for any site-owners who have failed to conform to Google's guidelines and have submitted a reconsideration request.