Changes to the way that Google’s search engines work is always big news for webmasters. In fact it’s big news for the net in general, and as the vast majority of traffic goes through Google, this will mean that the sites most people see when they go online will be changes as well. It’s almost [...]
Much has been written about Google’s Panda and Penguin updates so I won’t spend time exploring how the game has been changing for SEO’s. The bottom line is that the pendulum appears to be swinging back to the early days of SEO where quality on-site content and optimization have become more relevant to achieving top rankings. If you’re [...]
I’ve been using Google calculator a long time. It used to just show you the equation like this: 35000*20 = 700000 But now they have a cool built in ajax calculator now. You can still put the equation in search, but it will pop into this.
UPDATE: 2012/07/10 Check it out below. Well – here we are again, we have a new test to look at. This time we are looking at the effects of strict HTML on the way Google measures a page. The essential question of does Google look at more than the H1 tag when analyzing a [...]
In the Know: Search Engine Optimization Search engine optimization is the practice of making web pages that will be placed high in the results page of a search engine such as Google. In order to achieve a high ranking, web developers and admins use various tools and techniques in optimizing their website. Getting a high [...]
Google is known for regularly tweaking and updating its search algorithm. Most of these changes do not really get the attention of an average user. However, the past few months have witnessed two big updates, whose effects are resonating throughout the online world. These changes have caused web rankings of some legitimate businesses to drop, [...]
It came up again today at work (Clickstop) where we had a SEO discussion about different SEO Tests, this time it was the idea of “Does keyword position matter to Google?”. Basically – does it really matter what position on the page your keyword shows up? Here’s the idea: Assumptions: Same keyword for each page [...]
Google itself doesn’t provide really good information about what is PageRank, but there hundreds if not thousands of articles written about it by SEOs, webmasters and other specialist. In this article I will cover all the essential facts and myths about Google RageRank in a digestible way, so people with any background can pick up [...]
Social media activity may help improve your general popularity, but can it also help with your placement on search engine giant Google? A study and infographic by search engine marketing company TastyPlacement suggests that such activity can boost your Google rankings and give benefits to social media campains. TastyPlacement’s research involved a study of six [...]
Did you know that Google makes more money per year than over twenty of the poorest countries in the world combined? Most of this money comes from relentless advertising and not from the various services Google offers. Google’s AdWords program offers a myriad of products and some of them have landed Google in legal trouble. [...]