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
In a Google Webmaster Central video from Matt Cutts this week, the topic of nofollow links in blog comments is discussed. There are 2 important conclusions: If you have a blog, you should nofollow links. The reason being that spammers adding untoward links can earn you a poor reputation in the eyes of Google. Of [...]
Posted in Content, Link Building | Tagged google, matt cutts, nofollow
By Sam Langdon on February 11, 2010
Google announced their new social platform: Buzz this week, to lots of media erm…buzz. It fits neatly into Gmail and with typically easy to use image & video features and a neat location specific mobile web app (not to mention Google’s monstrous size & leverage), it looks set to rival Twitter & Facebook. As Chris [...]
Posted in Social Media | Tagged google, google buzz
By Sam Langdon on January 16, 2010
via googleblog.blogspot.com Google have recently created an online people finder gadget in partnership with the US department of state as part of their Haiti earthquake response website. They’ve also enhanced Google Earth imagery in the affected area to help relief organisations. My initial thought was how great it is that technological advances and the internet [...]
Posted in General | Tagged google, google earth, haiti
By Sam Langdon on November 25, 2009
via googleblog.blogspot.com Google have recently blogged about their new search ad formats on their official blog. This comes as more ‘competition’ to the organic listings and serves as a reminder about the need to include multimedia in your website to engage users and increase your chances of getting a call to action in Google’s results. [...]
Posted in General | Tagged google, social search
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