We’ve had pretty good notice from Google about the shift in the mobile algorithm which is to occur on April 21st. This is touted to be a bigger update then seen with Penguin or Panda. Have you prepared? There are a number of ways you can check to see if pages (yes, this is on a page-by-page basis) on your…
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Jeremy Clarkson is a household name for car enthusiasts all over the world. He is the quintessential wisecracker presenter, whose name has become almost synonymous with the brand “Top Gear”. For many Jeremy Clarkson is Top Gear, and Top Gear is Jeremy Clarkson. But then, the unexpected happened. Recently, the BBC sacked Jeremy Clarkson following a row, which involved him and…
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The rumour is out and it’s probably not too surprising. A number of sources are claiming that Google could be set to use mobile user experience as part its’ ranking algorithm. The notion of this isn’t new (we already know that site speed is a ranking factor for mobile) but the resurgance in discussion means it may not be too…
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Here’s some news about a recent change in Google that was strongly recommended in recent months. We have been advising clients about the benefits of using Authorship mark-up (a Google experiment over the last three years) for their content. Most recently Google announced that they would be removing author photos from search results as: [one_half] – There wasn’t data to…
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Right, so here we go again. It’s enough with the animals, the most recent being Pigeon which looked at local search. Google has announced on Webmaster Central Blog that a site served on an HTTPS version will benefit in search results, even if only a little. Much as already been written about this and of course the debate rages on.…
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A recent update of Google’s Knowledge Graph will see a sizable shift in how results are displayed. Dr Pete from Moz (who I wrote about in an earlier post) has a really interesting write up on an update to the Knowledge Graph that has gone relatively unnoticed. Have you ever typed something into Google which results in your answer appearing…
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In the latter end of 2012 we saw organic search traffic take a rather large dive. When Apple released iOS6 a strange thing happened. Safari, the browser used, was re-routing Google search traffic through an encrypted version of Google. The result? Organic search traffic could not be attributed to search. Instead all of this traffic was being given to ‘direct’…
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Comparing CTR Performance Does CTR improve with a hybrid approach? Google today announced the addition of Organic reporting through the AdWords interface. This is superb news and I couldn’t wait to try it out! According to Google we can use this reporting to: Discover additional keywords. Use the report to discover potential keywords to add to your AdWords accounts by…
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The term “local search” has been thrown around in circles for a few years now. Of late, local search has become increasingly important from not only a mobile perspective but desktop as well. The intensity of these tasks has certainly increased in the last two years. There have been local search functions around for sometime such as Foursquare and check-ins,…
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