Google has been sending out ‘Action Required” emails to business owners make sure you login and check your account and listing. One can only guess they are updating their database and also checking to see if anyone is checking the data is correct. After all keeping a live listing of every business on the planet […]
Google Plus Rolls Out New Cover Image Size
Google has updated the cover image size on Google Plus in what is a good move i think, an advance on the previous layout for sure. The aspect is still 16:9 but the size is smaller, info now appears overlaid on the left with main cover photo on the right see below; […]
Google+ Custom URLS Rollout
Been receiving emails offering new custom urls for g+ pages. No option at this point ot edit them so you either accept or wait and see if any updates happen. “You’re now eligible for a unique Google+ custom URL that lets you easily point folks to your page (no more long URLs!). Here’s what we’ve […]
Googles Matt Cutts at Pubcon Updates on Search
Many thx to Greg Finn for his post on Searchengineland link below, very interesting to see the summary of Matt Cutts keynote. I like the power and weight being given to Authorship the challenge is getting our clients to take this on. Link building certainly needs to be approached with care; “Google has cracked down […]
Google+ Local’s New Features (And What They Mean for Your Business)
If you’re a local business owner with a Google presence, you’ve undoubtedly heard of the many changes that have affected the world’s favorite search engine over the last few months, such as the fact that Google Places has given way to the far more dynamic Google+ Local. But even for business owners who keep up […]
Google Penguin A Study on Link Classes
Google rolled out one of its most controversial updates in 2012 and named it the penguin update. It was controversial because it made use of link signals as its way of determining relevance of a website aside from its clout, and by link signals it means it placed into consideration the amount of work done […]
Google PageRank update beware the red herring
I can see Google has released a Toolbar PR update however before you get excited remember it is bit of a red herring. It has little relationship to how Google ranks a website, the live PR number is normally 3 months or so old as well. We have gone to PR7 which sounds great but […]
The Google view on article marketing for seo
So what is the value of article marketing? If you consider the Google duplicate content rule, putting copies of the same articles all around the web does not make a lot of sense. In the video below Matt Cutts from Google tells us he does not recommend this strategy; However a well placed well written […]
Google’s February Algo Update
Interesting to start seeing results of how this ‘Farmer’ update has effected serps and traffic. Google’s statement that it effects 11.8% of its search results is surprising. Targeting sites that have a low level of original content sounds good to me, sites like ezinearticles.com and articlesbase.com have lost out. The dubious seo method of spinning content […]
Choosing Google Places Categories
Choosing the right categories in Google is not so easy as Google does not tell you what they are exactly. You might find something close but how do you pick other categories? Consensus out there at the moment is you should not make categories up, but use what Google has available. Mike Blumenthal has released […]
