Google Update affecting local Australian rankings?
Reports are floating around Australian shores that a recent Google update may have rolled out a double whammy impact, targeting both the devaluation of spammy links as well as location rankings.
Post from Annabel Hodges on State of Search
Google Update affecting local Australian rankings?
Google Rewards App Developers Using Google+ Sign-In With Better Visibility On Google Search
What are the most popular activities done or content consumed by apps? Google’s now bringing that information to its search results, assuming the app developer makes use Google+ Sign-In, that is. Google+ Sign-in was launched in February as an easy way to let anyone sign into a site or app…
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Study: Many Searchers Choose Google Over Bing Even When Google’s Name Is On Bing’s Results
In a recent study by SurveyMonkey examining SEO assumptions, respondents were given two search result pages, one with a page header labeled “Google” and the other with a page header labeled “Bing,” and asked which page of results they preferred. Even when the page header…
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X-default HREFLANG – making localisation so much simpler
Very interested to read this morning that Google have announced that the HREFLANG framework has been expanded to include a fallback default in situations which is supported by both Google and Yandex. If we take the following example – sitex.com – Default Country Selector page – sitex.com/gb/en – For users in the UK speaking English […]
Is the SSL issue getting bigger
A couple of weeks ago, I was asked if I fancied being involved in a piece on SSL search for the NMA, something for which I had to pull together a fair bit of research as part of the piece. With Firefox 14 now encrypting searches by default, the volume …
Has Google’s market share changed significantly in the last two years
When I last did one of these comparisons back at the height of the initial Bing advertising blitz it was interesting to note the limited impact the advertising had had in terms of impact in search volume queries. At that time, Google owned about 92.61%…