UK Internet users made 2.3 billion visits to search engines in January 2012, up from 2.2 billion in January 2011. Visits to search engines are up by 4.5 per cent year-on-year with nearly 100 million more visits in January this year than last year. Google remained the steadfast market leader
Continue Reading →Google+ is Google. Google announced this week that Google+ now has over 90 million users. That’s pretty impressive, considering it’s only been out about half a year. It may help, however, that it comes as part of just signing up for a Google account now. Google+ began on an invitation-only
Continue Reading →Head over to Wikipedia today and you won’t find the random fact you were looking for. Instead, you’ll see a black page explaining why Wikipedia is currently unavailable. The English-language version of the website has been taken down for 24 hours in protest against two anti-piracy lawscurrently being debated by
Continue Reading →Organic search marketing, often referred to as SEO is not an easy gig. Of course there are those out there who say that SEO is a farce or that SEO can be done by anyone. I disagree on both accounts. For me organic search marketing has never been about search
Continue Reading →Surprisingly beating Yahoo to become the second biggest search engine in America isn’t one of them… Now is as good time as any to try Microsoft’s search engine -Bing. Bing has just surpassed Yahoo in search queries for the first time, this makes it the second biggest search engine in
Continue Reading →Wow 2011 has been quite a year in Search. You might say that it has been the year of the Panda. In November 2010 at PubCon Las Vegas, Google’s Matt Cutts warned us that big things were coming from Google in terms of dealing with webspam. Look for more of
Continue Reading →Last week Google+ recorded its 3rd largest week in terms of total US visits for the week ending Nov. 12, 2011 receiving more than 6.8 million total US visits. The growth represents a 5% increase versus the previous week and a 25% increase compared to a month ago. The recent
Continue Reading →Hi Guys, I’ll be growing a mustache to raise awareness and money for men’s health issues, and specifically prostate cancer research. I’m asking all able bodied men & women to join our team. Movember 2011 – 100% face grown and 100% hand brushed. Real men, growing real moustaches. Talking about
Continue Reading →One of the reasons that I’m so madly in love with WordPress is the thousands of plugins available. It doesn’t matter what you want to accomplish on your blog, there is probably a WordPress plugin that will allow you to do it. This list is the 20 most incredible WordPress
Continue Reading →Topic pages certainly aren’t anything new in the online media world, but I often wonder why more news sites don’t utilize them. Topic pages, which can be defined as pages that aggregate content relating to a specific subject, provide a service to readers and also help increase search-engine optimization (SEO)
Continue Reading →How does content help with SEO efforts? The team at Brafton have produced a “Why Content For SEO” infographic with lots of stats and information about the topic that you might find interesting: Want the infographic for yourself? You’ll find it here: Infographic: Why Content for SEO?
Continue Reading →Among SEO professionals, there isn’t always consensus on precisely which and to what degree site factors contribute or detract from rankings on Google because the factors actually vary by industry. There are indeed, a number of contentious issues: markup and content quality, use of title tags, site organization and even
Continue Reading →Google has introduced two new link elements to show Google the schematic relationships of documents that span multiple pages and better identify duplicate content. Google also emphasized they want to show single-page versions in search results. Pagination & SEO Simply, pagination is the sequential numbering of pages. In reference to
Continue Reading →I just wanted to take a moment and say thanks to everyone that has sent me a Happy Birthday message via email, Facebook or Twitter. As I said in a Facebook message earlier today, “I can’t help but sit and think about the last 20 years (especially the last 10)…
Continue Reading →Online publishers – newspapers, for example – depend on visits and pageviews for their livelihood. The biggest source of visits is still unpaid, ‘organic’ search results and probably social referrals. So, why do so many publishers do such a poor job of optimizing their sites? Yes, I know, the pageview
Continue Reading →Google has applied the tweak brush to its search result pages and improved the way that web site links are returned. The changes were introduced with a blog post that explained that by making web site links clearer on its returns page Google hoped to save searchers time and deliver
Continue Reading →A Google Webmaster Tools user found a security hole that allowed him to delete any web page from Google’s index. Luckily, once the exploit was reported, Google had it patched within seven hours. The “Let’s Hack the Index” Exploit James Breckenridge, a web project manager and SEO, was attempting to
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