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Wikipedia's 2010 Fundraising Appeal - Form Usability and CRO Case Study

Wikipedia recently launched their annual appeal for donations. This involves the familiar "A personal appeal from Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales" banner being shown some of the time at the top of the articles on the site.

Say Goodbye to Google's Keyword Tool

Tweet Here at Receptional our SEO team have not been fans of Google's new version of it's keyword tool, which can often return unreliable or contradictory data.

About the Twitter 'URL Injection' Attack

Tweet Yesterday Twitter was subject to being 'hacked' for a number of hours - see Twitter Mouseover Hack.

Instant Search: Google's Biggest Ever Mistake?

Tweet Last week Google rolled out Instant Search, a major overhaul of the way pages are retrieved and displayed and the SEO community is still coming to terms with the news. I talked about the facts of this earlier - Google Rolls Out Major Search Update - so I won't go over the nuts and bolts again. Predictions of the "Death of SEO" have been made in dramatic fashion by some bloggers, though this is categorically not the case. Nothing to do with ranking metrics or algorithms has changed. However, searcher habits are likely to change as a result, perhaps significantly, and search marketers will need to adapt their strategies to reflect this.

Google Webmaster Tools SERP Clickthrough Data Unreliable

Last month, Google significantly revamped the "Top Search Queries" section of Webmaster Tools which put some very interesting data at the fingertips of webmasters and search marketers.

New Look for Google

Google are today rolling out the first major overhaul to the appearance of their search engine  for a number of years.

Google Considering Withdrawal from China

Google's official blog was updated with a controversial article last night, detailing recent hacks on

Opinion: Google Personalised Search

Google's newly launched personalised search has attracted little fanfare outside the SEO community, however it
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