Posted by Steffi Fishwick on 15th of October, 2012
Exact Match Domains are domain names that exactly match the keyword a website wants to compete for. For example if a website wants to rank for ‘Personal Injury Solicitor’ it might pick up the domain www.personalinjurysolicitor.co.uk.
For some time Exact Match Domains have bought a competitive advantage in the online market, until the m...
Posted by Peter on 16th of August, 2012
If you block a page within the robots.txt, Google still often indexes the page however it doesn’t crawl the page. This means that the meta description and meta title isn’t displayed within the SERPs.
The title within the SERPs which is displayed instead, is usually the full URL, like this:
If the blocked page has been linked to (eit...
Posted by Andrew Whyman on 11th of January, 2012
Google recently announced another feature they have included in searches they dub "Search Plus Your World", whose rollout began today. It's a new idea that brings public and private search results together into one mixed set, giving a diverse set of results tailored only to you. Not everyone will see the change yet as it is still rolling out, and...
Posted by Rory Truesdale on 12th of December, 2011
Over the past month or two there have been several significant changes made to the Google algorithm that have the potential to affect how search engine optimisation is practiced and maybe even user behaviour on the search engines. In a recent post at their blog, Google's chief spam combatant, Matt Cutts, disclosed ten recent algorithm c...
Posted by Peter on 30th of November, 2011
In June, Google launched a black bar at the top of the page that came quite a shock to most and took quite a long time to get used to.
Today, Google have announced that they're now getting rid of that black bar as part of their new design facelift.
In replacement of the black-bar navigation, once a user hovers over the Google logo, a new navigat...