HTTPS

HTTPS Doesn’t Boost Rankings Yet!

Posted by Paul Smith | September 4, 2014

Digital marketing software and service company Searchmetrics has performed a detailed analysis of rankings of various websites, and determined that there is no discernible difference between HTTP and HTTPS website rankings. Searchmetrics published a blog post which detailed the rankings of HTTP and HTTPS based websites, and calculated how visible […]

Search Engine Optimisation
Google Knowledge Graph

Google Pioneers Knowledge Vault

Posted by Paul Smith | August 28, 2014

Google’s knowledge graph system is well-known in the SEO world, and incredibly popular with webmasters and searchers alike. It offers instant access to a lot of information, facts and tools, and is a huge time-saver for those moments when people just want to know what time a store closes, or […]

Google
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AdWords Website Call Conversions

Posted by Paul Smith | August 22, 2014

In a recent blog post, Google have announced that they have launched website call conversions within its AdWords platform.  This new tool has been described by Google as a ‘powerful way to identify and measure calls from a website that occur after an ad click.’ A study released by Google […]

Pay per Click
Google Blue Logo

Knowledge Graph Nightmare for Greggs

Posted by Paul Smith | August 21, 2014

Well-known British bakery chain Greggs suffered a PR nightmare yesterday when their iconic logo was hijacked in Google’s knowledge graph, being replaced with a similar looking logo that made derogatory comments about the brand and its usual customers. Anyone who searched for Greggs on the UK version of Google would […]

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Google Penalties

War Continues on Unnatural Links

Posted by Paul Smith | August 20, 2014

During the past weekend a large number webmasters and website owners have fallen foul to Google’s continued war on ‘black-hat’ link building techniques. Over the past weekend Google has informed people that an unspecified German and also an unnamed European network have been affected. This action has resulted in many […]

Google Penalties
Google Penguin

Penguin 3.0 is Not Yet Ready for Release

Posted by Paul Smith | August 19, 2014

With Webmasters all over the world trying to recover from the fallout experienced by Penguin 2.0, the anticipation continues to build for the upcoming implementation of Penguin 3.0. During a recent Google Webmaster Central hangout, Google Webmaster Trends Analyst John Mueller was directly asked whether the latest update of Google’s […]

Google Updates
Bing Webmaster Tools

Lets be Friends: Bing Conversational Search

Posted by Paul Smith | August 18, 2014

In a recent post published on the Bing Webmaster Blog, Yan Ke, Principal Development Lead of Bings Relevance Team has stated that Bing has added the functionality to continue the conversation after a user of their search engine is provided with their answer. The premise behind this recent update is […]

Bing
Respove Web Design

Google Warnings about Faulty Mobile Redirects

Posted by Paul Smith | August 15, 2014

Google has made it quite clear that it wants to see webmasters make their sites more mobile-friendly, but it is fighting a difficult battle in making webmasters understand exactly what mobile means. Some well-meaning webmasters have simply made a mobile version of their site and redirect all mobile traffic to […]

Responsive Web Design
Google Hummingbird

Redefining SEO for the Hummingbird Era

Posted by Paul Smith | August 7, 2014

Every few months, articles crop up proclaiming the death of SEO. When link exchanges were devalued, many panicked and called that the end of SEO. The same thing occurred with the loss of link directories, the introduction of duplicate content penalties and even the algorithm updates that penalised unnatural looking […]

Google Updates
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