New Red Letters in Google Webmaster Tools
Today theres a new slew of reports that Google is once again targeting campaigns that have ‘paid or un natural links’. Last nights emails follow this format: Dear Site Owner or Webmaster of http://www.domain.co.uk/, We’ve detected that some of your site’s pages may be using techniques that are outside Google’s Webmaster Guidelines. Specifically, look for [...]
Is Suggest Causing the Google Adwords Keyword Tool Loose Volume
I’ve been re evaluating some campaigns recently which has seen me digging through old proposals and keyword research and I think I’ve made a startling discovery. Pretty much across the board I’ve noticed that past volumes are around five times higher than their current values in the Google Adwords Keyword Tool. So from this we [...]
Google Knowledge Graph Brings Answers to Search
I’m surprised the blog-o-sphere hasn’t been all over this but yesterday Google USA launched a new change to their user interface, this time called Google Knowledge Graph. What this does is provide answers from ‘trusted sources’ inline with your search queries. To achieve this, they’ve developed a new algorithm that puts the words in your [...]
SEOMoz Gives Google Panda the Fist
Our n00bie SEO Paul found this on SEOMoz and thought it was funny… I have to agree. Now I know the Panda update hit SEO’s and site owners hard and it certainly packed a punch. Enough with the sillyness, its time to get back to work.
Matt Cutts Announces New Google Update that Tackles Web Spam
Today the mighty Matt Cutts announced the latest in their series of updates designed to kill the impact of so called web spam. The full article can be read here. Now I fully understand keyword stuffing and acknowledge that it’s a technique from the dark past of SEO however the second example they show just [...]
Multilingual SEO Infographic for Translation
My friends at Applied Language Solutions (Hi Emma) have cajouled me into placing this lovely infographic depicting the issues sites face when considering multilingual content. Be careful i think its A3 when clicked! To view the original document that accompanies this infographic check the officiasl blog page at appliedlanguage.com
Stop SOPA – MR.SEO Going Dark
So i’ve decided to send the site dark in protest over SOPA as if this passes in the USA it’s only a matter of time before the UK Government is all over it. If you’d like to black out your blog in protest then (after having done a bit of research) the best plugin is http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sopa-blackout/ [...]
Panda Update 19th December 2011
Although Matt Cutts previously stated that there would be no ‘major’ updates to the Panda algorithm change throughout December, this didn’t stop them slipping in a minor update that occurred on the 19th Dec. Reports that this ‘minor’ update has already affected some big sites such as JC Penny, Overstock.com and a host of other big name websites. So [...]
Google Says It Uses Valid HTML and CSS In Its Quality Score
Found an interesting thread on Google Webmaster blog that states that Google now use code validation as part of its quality score. This is pretty massive as for years now I’ve been saying that yes, valid HTML is best practice but that no, it doesn’t really matter to Google. Of course, like me many SEO’s [...]