Patrick Altoft from BlogStorm wrote a great post about how user data may be used in the brand update and he summarised the Google’s patented “document scoring based on link based criteria” document. Some of the information here will not …
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A few SEO guys have been talking about a couple of new things that are now available in the Google Webmaster Tools. Webmasters now have access to a malware search, and a tool to ‘fetch’ a URL as Google would. …
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Google have recently released yet another feature for its registered users. After the release of ‘SearchWiki‘ some months ago we got a glimpse of how Google may use people’s profiles to help navigate (based on search history) and place their …
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Google’s Vince update, which first affected the US results early in 2009 and then later the UK results in July, is still a mystery. It looked at first like an update designed to boost brands, as Aaron Wall first mentioned …
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Nick Fox of Google, recently spoke at SES about the future of paid search . One of the most interesting points he raised was the possibility of keyword free advertising. The idea behind this being that small businesses allow Google …
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I just noticed that in certain SERPs, where page copy is used for the snippet text (no meta description is present in this case), links to named anchors on the same page are appearing as links in the snippet text. …
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Not the biggest piece of news to hit us this year but Google have reconfirmed that Search is the primary focus of the company by increasing the size of their Search box and the size of the text that you …
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Image Credit:  Â© Ahmed Amir The holistic approach. The whole being greater than the sum of the parts. However you want to phrase it, it is important to understand that to have a successful SEO campaign you need to ensure that …
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With Google continually making changes to its SERP’s, we SEOs are always interested in what those changes are and how we can influence them. We look for tools and information to support us through these exciting periods of change.  Sites …
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Marketing research company, comScore, has reported that Twitter.com visitor traffic has risen to an impressive 51.6m unique users worldwide in July 2009. The same researchers also rank Twitter 42nd in their “Media Metrix Ranks Top 50 U.S. Web Properties for …
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