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Google’s Panda Updates Explained in Images [infographic]
What a great little infographic to help explain the myriad of changes made through Google’s Panda Updates – and some tips on how to improve your sites performance in light of the changes.
Thanks to the team at Singlegrain...
Facebook and Twitter Build a “Don’t Be Evil” Tool to Show Google’s Bias in Search Results
A couple of weeks ago, Google launched “Search Plus Your World”, a new feature that displays social information alongside regular data in Google’s search results. The goal of SPYW is to further personalise search re...
Top 8 Tips To Generate Leads On LinkedIn
I have to admit, I have neglected my LinkedIn profile and activity in the last few months. It certainly isn’t as exciting a network as Facebook or Twitter; but I guess that’s not really the point of it.
Having recently started fo...
$5 Billion Facebook IPO Expected Today
Eight years back when Mark Zuckerberg made the significant decision of launching his social networking website, little did he know that the decision was going to pay off in such a big way.
According to several leading news reports, F...
Bing Wants to Become a “Doing” Search Engine
When Bing passed Yahoo! to become the 2nd ranked search engine in the U.S last month it seems the company also got the confidence to shed its “decision engine” label and re-launch as an ad platform with a new tagline ‘Bing is f...
Google’s Above-the-Fold Algorithm Change Will Penalize Many Sites
Continuing its efforts to keep its search results more quality-oriented, Google recently announced a significant algorithmic change.
The change looks at the layout and amount of content on a webpage, if the ads above the fold are exc...
Google Updates Privacy Policy to Bring Unity to Services
A warning to all Google users: the Internet giant is doing away with their 70 different privacy policies across Google properties and replacing them with one main privacy policy that will be much easier for users to read and comprehe...
10 Best Alternatives to Google Analytics
While the majority of website owners use Google Analytics to measure their website’s success due to its ease of implementation and lack of cost, there are a few other great analytics options which are well worth checking out.
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Small Business Social Media Cheat Sheet [infographic]
We found this nifty little infographic this morning. The clever people over at Flowtown and Column Five have put it together.
While it misses a few obvious networks (e.g Linkedin), it’s a great primer for small business owners ...
5 Essential Chrome Extensions for Website Owners
Chrome is quickly making up ground in the browser wars…and for good reason. It’s simple, fast and comes with some awesome extensions and add-ons.
I made the move across from Firefox to Chrome about 12 months ago and haven’t lo...
How Google Chooses Your Title Tag for Search Results
Addressing the concerns of many webmasters who find that Google sometimes show alternative titles in the organic search results, Google’s Pierre Far has given an explanation.
While we all know that Google often changes the snip...
Bing Surpasses Yahoo! to Become 2nd Favorite Search Engine
According to ComScore’s latest qSearch analysis report, Google continues to lead the search market with 65.9% of search queries in December conducted in the US search marketplace. However, in a surprising change of events, Micr...
Yahoo! Founder Jerry Yang’s Shock Resignation
In what came as shocking news to the entire web community, Yahoo! co-founder, Jerry Yang, has officially resigned from Yahoo!
He will no longer be on the board of directors at Yahoo! Inc, Yahoo Japan Corporation and Alibaba Group Hol...
Google Caught Accepting Illegal AdWords Campaigns
A recent report by BBC has revealed that Google UK is facing some serious allegations of running ads for illegal Olympic ticket resellers.
The issue was first bought to light by a customer who tried purchasing tickets for the upcomin...
30 Recent Google Search Quality Changes
Google recently produced a list of updates and improvements they made to their search in the month of December 2011 and its well worth a quick scan for anyone who is serious about their website’s Google ranking.
The list contai...
Google Launches “Search Plus Your World” and Twitter Isn’t Happy About It
Barely a few hours after Google unveiled ‘Search Plus Your World’ micro-blogging site, Twitter, voiced its disapproval publicly saying that these changes were “bad” for both consumers and web publishers.
Twitter sa...
Google Caught Buying Paid Links – Penalizes Their Own Website
Google have penalized their own Google Chrome website after it emerged that the URL was caught up in a paid links promotion, a violation of their webmaster guidelines.
The problem has arisen after Google paid Unruly Media, an interna...
The Future of Search & Social According to Bing
In the past, SEO had little or nothing to do with social media sites. It was always thought of an IT professional’s task of getting your site and content easily found on the search engines and social media was just a personal way o...
Google’s Advice for Testing Your Website
Ever wondered whether your targeted audience is really finding your website useful? Is the high bounce rates from any of your pages a matter of concern for you? Well, you’re in luck… Google is giving out some simple and h...
Online Marketing Trends for 2012
What does 2012 hold in store for online marketing?
Where 2011, saw some major changes such as Google entering the social media world with Google+, Facebook and Twitter playing a large role in product promotions and an increase in mob...
