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I first saw this spoof video at a Google Agency day. It’s funny but scary at the same time. How does your shopping experience match up? Use Google Analytics to see where people are leaving your site. If you’re not using goals and funnels to monitor user experience, you should be. It isn’t enough to [...]

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Authorship Information in Google Search Results If you’ve spent any time searching in Google recently, you may have spotted certain search results are starting to appear with the author Google+ profile link and photo shown next to the search results, for example: In this example, if you search for ‘Google AdWords advice‘ or ‘AdWords consultant‘, [...]

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Spoof SEO Video I saw this video yesterday. As it made me laugh, I thought I’d share with you. However, I do recognise that, if you’re not into SEO, it may not be comedy gold! It’s a mash up of various clips from Google’s Head of Webspam team, Matt Cutts: Although the video is a [...]

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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 to as ‘webspam’. Yesterday, Matt Cutts of Google published a post in which he [...]

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Google’s Maile Ohye explains five of the most common mistakes site owners can make with their search engine optimisation (SEO). She also offers some advice for anyone looking to improve their SEO: The video is just over 8 minutes long so whilst it won’t get you a day out of the office, it may just [...]

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Yesterday, Google announced 40 changes as part of their on-going improvements to search quality. As with many things to do with Google, it’s all quite a tease and no doubt the SEO forums will be awash with even more views and opinions as to what it all means. A couple of interesting snippets from the [...]

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The Issues Surrounding Google Search Plus Your World

Just as you get a handle on personalised search results and privacy issues, Google moves the goal posts. The recent launch of Search plus Your World has transformed the way in which search results are listed. In addition to presenting results that best match your keywords, including content that Google believes to be of interest to you, [...]

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A Guide to Social Network Profile Definitions

First you were a friend. Next you were a follower. Then a connection. Now you’re an acquaintance, a close friend and a fan. If you’re lucky (and interesting enough) you’ve been added to lists. Social networks have gotten complicated. Thanks to the explosion of categories and types we have more labels than ever before. Thankfully, our [...]

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Google Announce Bid-Per-Call for UK AdWords Advertisers

Continuing their domination of online paid advertising, Google AdWords have just announced that Bid-Per-Call, i.e. paying for telephone calls received via AdWords ads, is going to be rolled out over the next few weeks within the UK. So, if you have a business where you know that a lot of your leads are likely to [...]

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Google SEO Guidelines Video

This video was first published in August 2011 but has recently been promoted again via Twitter. Perhaps in reaction to the recent anti-SEO claims being made following Google’s decision to encrypt search queries? In this video, Matt Cutts outlines the Google position very succinctly; they do not class SEO as spam but, as with most [...]

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