By Sam Langdon on April 18, 2010
After Google recently announced it’s using speed as a ranking factor, Matt Cutts sensibly set panic-mongers at rest by explaining that it’s only a small part of the picture. Content, relevance, back links, accessibility and various other traditional SEO factors still account for the most part of how high your website will appear in the [...]
Posted in SEO News, Technical Architecture, Tools | Tagged google, performance
By Sam Langdon on February 27, 2010
I’ve decided to make the format of these weekly news updates a little snappier – so here’s my top 5 interesting/useful/topical search related posts from this week. SEOmoz: SEO for Startups: Top 7 Lessons – Some excellent key lessons from Rand at SEOmoz plucked from a recent presentation he gave in London. It’s easy to [...]
Posted in SEO News
By Sam Langdon on February 21, 2010
Another week, another barrage of exciting SEO and technology related news. Highlights this week include the struggle for search dominance on mobile and desktop, Google Buzz getting more press – both good & bad and Tiger Woods’ streamed apology. Mobile Mobile Search Dominance WebProNews discussed Windows 7 Phone having Bing built in potentially increasing its [...]
Posted in SEO News | Tagged google buzz, search dominance, SEO News
By Sam Langdon on February 13, 2010
Another week of top SEO news from influential industry sources, collated and commented on, to save you the bother. This weeks highlights include Google Buzz, Yahoo leaving search and Vancouver 2010 online. Google Buzz As I , Google’s new social platform: Buzz has arrived, bringing with it a chance to get more instantly indexed SERP [...]
Posted in SEO News | Tagged buzz, google ISP, Vancouver
By Sam Langdon on January 30, 2010
It’s been an exciting week in the search & technology world. Here’s this week’s summary from the top sources, including the iPad launch, the Pope & Obama, RSS feeds in Google reader, HTML 5 and SEO for topic pages, amongst other things. Apple iPad Unless you’ve just emerged from a vacuum, you will have noticed that Apple’s iPad was released this week. [...]
Posted in SEO News | Tagged HTML5, iPad, iPope, Obama
By Sam Langdon on January 23, 2010
This is the first in an ongoing series of weekly news roundups covering the SEO related highlights from some of the most important sources, to save you having to trawl through yourself. Enjoy… Google First off, Matt Cutts talked about breadcrumbs and how to best configure your site so the correct navigation will appear. In [...]
Posted in SEO News | Tagged apple tablet, google breadcrumbs, google rich event snippets, matt cutts, SEO News, seomoz open site, skrbit
By Sam Langdon on December 16, 2009
Real Time Web 2009 has seen a lot of enhancements in Real Time search and news. A lot of this revolves around the increasing use of social networking. Google Realtime Search Google has recently made agreements with various partners involving involve real time search, including Facebook, Twitter & MySpace. Having direct access to this data [...]
Posted in Content, SEO News
By Sam Langdon on November 21, 2009
A summary of Google Social Search, benefits for research and how we’re getting closer to being connected to one another via social networking sites.
Posted in SEO News | Tagged google social search, research
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