Webmaster Tools drops the pixie dust
In the last few days there have been some additions and one removal from Webmaster Tools. The removal is in some ways the more interesting for what it might signal for the future – Pagerank is no...
View ArticleGoogle through the looking glass
My last post discussed changes in the search landscape but it seems Google is busy changing both the business landscape and the real landscape. A couple of weeks ago we had SEORoundtable reporting on...
View ArticleMore Google Geolocation oddities
Sometimes Google really puzzles me. I just did a search from the UK, using Google.co.uk, selecting UK-only results, for “chatsworth bed”. (I was checking to see how Chatsworth bed was doing against the...
View ArticleGoogle site command oddities
For some time I’ve been noticing irregularities in the results of the information that Google provides through the various commands and through the Webmaster Tools facility. Of course we all know the...
View ArticlePageRank Distribution and Navigation Systems
Ok, this post is aimed at SEOs rather than a general audience, and is something I’ve been mulling over for quite some time without getting round to posting about it. I got the nudge to finally do so...
View ArticlePersonalised and real-time search – let me turn them off!
Call me an old Luddite if you will, but to me – as a user rather than just as an SEO – personalised search is a faulty concept. The whole point of “search” is that I’m looking for something I …...
View ArticleMore Google site command oddities – and Bing too
A few weeks ago I mentioned I was seeing more and more erratic behaviour in the once-reliable Google site command. Today I noticed more strangeness on this very site. In March I had 163 pages indexed,...
View ArticlePressing the wrong international buttons
A Tale of Edinburgh University Press and search engines This weekend I was doing some research for additional content for my Scottish Books site and had occasion to do a Google search for Edinburgh...
View ArticleSocial Networks and Search – will they just spoil each other?
Social is all over the place these days – even the mainstream media mentions it often, particularly at the moment with Facebook having just announced major changes at F8 and with Google pushing Google+...
View ArticleLinkspam – Common forms of link building that have gone toxic
As I’ve been predicting for a long time Google has finally upped the ante on poor quality link building and is starting to actively penalise those who participate in it. This has of course started an...
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