filed in SEO on Apr.08, 2011
We have never promised anyone that we would get their website to the very top of Google. Â We promise to use the very best techniques that have proven to deliver fantastic results in the past, but we can’t force Google to do anything. Â If they don’t want to put your site at number 1 then [...]
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filed in Google, SEO on Nov.25, 2009
A while back, Google introduced the Canonical Link Element to help site owners deal with duplicate pages getting indexed in Google (such as printer friendly pages, which have almost exactly the same content as the original article). It’s very widely used now but it’s not 100% accurate and if you make a mistake with it [...]
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filed in SEO, Website Design on Sep.23, 2009
One of the things we’ve seen time and again is when someone has an old website that hasn’t been updated for months or even years. Â They get a new website with wonderful SEO, they put it live fully expecting it to hit page 1 and it ends up lower down than it was originally! Cue [...]
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filed in Google, SEO on Jul.08, 2009
Common sense would suggest that having two search results in positions 1 and 2 would be more beneficial than just having one result in the first position. Â Google does this if you have two pages that are strong enough to rank for the same keyword, even if the other page is only good enough to [...]
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filed in Blogging, SEO on Jun.30, 2009
Recently, Matt Cutts (head of webspam at Google) announced that they have changed the way that nofollow links are used. Â In fact, the way that Google have treated these links changed nearly a year ago but they only got around to announcing it now. For most people, this doesn’t matter at all but for those [...]
filed in Google, SEO on Jun.11, 2009
The world of search engine optimisation has become so competitive (and lucrative) that for many years now, there have been many dodgy techniques employed to help push websites further up the rankings. Generally, these techniques are far beyond Google’s terms of service and are commonly referred to as ‘Black Hat SEO’. Instead of writing good [...]
filed in Misc on Jun.02, 2009
According to Mashable and various other reports throughout the internet, China has blocked access to Twitter, Flickr, WordPress, Hotmail, YouTube, Blogger and a host of other websites. Apparently this is down to the upcoming anniversary of the Tiananment Square Massacre in 1989. The Chinese authorities obviously don’t want their people to be exposed to alternative versions [...]
filed in Google, SEO on May.19, 2009
I’m a bit of a geek and I like to look at the search results for a variety of keywords and see who is ranking where. I’m always interested to see why they’re ranking where they are so I often have a poke about to see what’s working for them and what isn’t. Today, I [...]
filed in Google, SEO on Apr.20, 2009
On Friday I spoke about the trust that can easily be generated just by having a top ranking in Google for a relevant search term. The findings of a recent survey showed that by having a top ranking, people assumed that you were an expert in your field. What this means is that people are [...]
filed in Google, SEO on Apr.02, 2009
For those of you that follow such things (most SEOs (despite what they say (including me!)), Google updated their Toolbar PageRank yesterday – April Fools day. While such an update has little to no impact on your search engine rankings, it’s an interesting indicator as to whether your SEO efforts are having any effect or [...]
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