Bing has recently announced that they are using the Meta Keywords as a signal. This was missed originally by a number of people as it was not through the official channels as Search Engine Land describes in its post. The …
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Yesterday Google rolled out two new features to Google+ Search. This now includes results in real time and supports hashtags. Real-time search Now when you search in Google+, you’ll see a message about new posts the instant they’re available. If …
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Today I found the site Chrome Experiments via Google Labs, it is a site which showcases innovative uses of the latest web based programming languages such as HTML5, CSS,  WebGL, Canvas and SVG. If you get a spare 5 minutes …
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Whilst catching up with my favourite technology and digital marketing blogs, I often read disaster stories about how brands have failed to respond to activity on their social media pages and profiles in a positive way. Great fun to read …
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Following on from our previous article “How does Bing manage redirects – 301s, 302s and the canonical tags?” Nick Roshon answers the question “How does Google handle the canonical tag?” Considering both search engines are supposed to treat the canonical …
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Bing is working on improving the back end of its search engine with a project called Tiger. Yongdong Wang, general manager of Microsoft’s Search Technology Center in Asia in an interview said “In Tiger, we not only look at improved …
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Mashable published an article on the new voucher offering from Google, Google Offers back in January this year. Google’s answer to Groupon went live in the US in April and we’ve been keeping an eye on it since. Google offers is now providing …
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Many webmasters across the web are reporting a sudden increase of backlinks found via their Google webmaster account. If you have been periodically reporting backlink from your webmaster console you may have seen an increase of about 100%. A thread …
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Traditionally search engines treat redirects as follows: A 301 redirect informs a search engine that content has moved permanently to a new location. The search engine then passes the existing value of the old URL to the new URL. It’s …
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The guys at SEOmoz received a special invitation to review some eye tracking data using the technology from Mirametrix which people will typtically pay big bucks for. They had to opportunity to review 5 Google SERPs (Search results pages from …
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