You may or may not have heard of Google’s speed update for mobile devices that is slated to go live in July of this year. The last thing you want is to get left in the dust so if you’re not up to speed, this is for you. A Brief History of Google’s Speed Update for Mobile Since 2010, Google…
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As Google and other major search engines are turning their focus to mobile-friendly search, it only makes sense that mobile apps are gaining popularity with business and website owners. App Store Optimisation (ASO) is becoming an important marketing tool for business owners. Making your app stand out from your competitors can be challenging, but there are several things you can…
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Late last year Google had written that blocking CSS and JavaScript through your sites robots.txt file could result in reduced indexation and rankings. Specifically: To help Google fully understand your site’s contents, allow all of your site’s assets, such as CSS and JavaScript files, to be crawled. The Google indexing system renders webpages using the HTML of a page as…
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[one_half][/one_half] [one_half_last] Google Search Console (formerly Webmaster Tools) is a free product from Google. This tool provides insights on site performance, site accessibility, search queries, internal and external link data, broken links, indexation and the ability to apply structured mark-up to pages on a website. There are many items in this tool that can be of benefit to everyone from…
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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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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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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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