If you work in search marketing, unless you have been living under a rock, you’ll be no doubt aware of the hundreds of thousands of webmaster messages that Google sent out basically telling people Google knows about your crap links and it’s going to do something about it. Well, a lot of chatter in webmaster [...]
Friday Fun – A REAL Bing SEO Tip
Apparently, Bing UK is very similar to Google UK when it comes to SEO, if this post from Bing is anything to go by. Funny how they dont’ mention the obvious number 1 ranking tip for Bing….. Yes…. you just buy an exact match domain and pump some links at it. :) Rocket science. I like Bing. [...]
3 Natural Organic Listings – Is This The Future of SEO for Google?
I’ve been seeing this more and more over here in the UK the last week or so – and I wonder if it could be a glimpse of the not two distant future. I tried a few random searches – this serps for ‘office cleaning services’ was interesting. The other day when I was presented [...]
Is Google Now Counting Text Within The Meta Description Tag?
A few years ago, I tested if Google indexed and used the text in your meta description tag. In that test, Google did not count the meta description. That test page now shows the meta description tag in Google, and is being treated much the same way as Google treats the ALT tag (*attribute) – [...]
EU Privacy Directive – Google Analytics Cookies ‘minimally intrusive’ & ‘unlikely’ to Get You Into Trouble
Worried about the new EU Privacy directive, cookies and what it means for Google Analytics on your website? There’s been some new clarification today from the UK Government. “We talked about cookies (how could we not?) but we didn’t get hung up on them – other relevant technologies e.g. HTML5 Local Storage and web beacons [...]
