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Guest post from Adrian Bold of Bold Internet Above shows example of web spam Google have often stated (Google SEO guidelines video) that they have no problem with SEO. The issue they have is with webmasters, site owners and SEOs who try to gain an unfair advantage using ‘black hat’ techniques, or what Google refer…
Has this ever happened to you? You’re so pleased to have finally finished writing your blog post that you hit ‘publish’ after a quick check to see it everything looks OK. When you’re busy, that’s all you have time for, right? I understand because I do it too, or at least I used to before…
While many principles of SEO (or search engine optimisation) have remained the same for a number of years, search engine technology is increasingly sophisticated as to how websites are ranked and this means you do need to keep up with the times. Using outdated techniques is not only lazy, but isn’t going to help towards…
A blog is so important to the online success of all small businesses that it can truly be called the real heart. It’s more important than Facebook, than Twitter, LinkedIn, and more important even than a static, stand-alone website. Have we convinced you yet that your blog is important? OK, here’s why it is: It…
While the economic downturn seems to be ongoing, certainly for the foreseeable future, one of the upsides is that it’s making people more enterprising in that people are finding new ways to earn extra cash. More people are setting up their own businesses after redundancy to take control over their own future or finding new…
The last few months have seen major changes to the way Google ranks websites, we’ve written about this in several posts but you may want to read more about in my post from July, What’s New in Search? One of those changes is about adverts on websites and how they could affect search engine rankings….
Guest post from Adrian Bold of Bold Internet Google announced last week a major change to the way signed-in users, i.e. those logged in with a Google account, will search within Google. The short version is that “many” signed-in users will be redirected to the secure (SSL) version of Google, i.e. https. Google have offered privacy and…
