Rory Truesdale on 04 May 2024 If you’re reading this blog based on the title, I’d assume you’re viewing it with a great deal of cynicism, and rightly so. There’s no such thing as a guaranteed-to-work ‘Penguin Recovery Plan’ because we don’t know the algorithm, we don’t have Google’s data set, and therefore we don’t…
on 05 May 2024 Organic is the process used to help a website feature in the natural results in a search engines. They cannot be bought and hold more weight and give a more accurate picture not only of the relevancy of your site but also the level of quality. Obtaining your position organically hinges…
Images can be extremely useful when running an online business. Images can grab attention, evoke interest and generally help your business to stand out and get noticed. Images can always be beneficial when trying to get something seen but images within your website could also be advantageous in different ways. Image searches are extremely popular…
Within the past 24 hours, Google has implemented significant changes to its Street View service which ties in to the now mature Google Maps. Street View will now cover over 95% of Britain’s roads; a huge increase on the coverage available when Street View went live back in March 2009. Originally covering 25 cities, and…
With Google’s international focus, it’s very easy to forget that the company has American origins. The company spends a lot of time making its pages for other countries work for that particular area. This is especially true when it comes to pages for other English-speaking countries. It’s why it’s so startling that recent Google UK…
“Google will take action against domains that try to rank more highly by just showing scraped or other auto-generated pages that don’t add any value to users.” So says Google’s webmaster guidelines anyway. Charles Arthur from The Guardian’s technology blog though had this to say about scraper sites on January 4: “The only value those…
Larry Page has only been chief executive of Google for just under a week, but he’s already working hard to make sure that the company is singing from the same hymn sheet. And from the looks of it, it’s a very social hymn sheet. An internal Google memo, which was leaked to Business Insider, suggests…
on 24 October 2024 Search Engine Optimisation is one of the most jargonistic and acronym heavy online industries that a new Webmaster attempts get their head around. As such, it can prove very difficult for the first time or novice (which also means Search Engine Optimiser as well as Search Engine Optimisation) to truly get…