Google Instant was released meaning you no longer have to hit enter to search. As you type the SERP’s update with each key stroke which seems like a good idea, or is it?
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Google ditch planned homepage change
Google decided not to fully go ahead with the homepage redesign that was planned for the 10th June. Instead they pulled out after just hours after implementing the change apparently due to pressure from unhappy users.
Google Jazz
Reports were saying that on the 6th of May Google would roll out a complete redesign of its main pages according to the Internet Search Corporation.
Anyone for a Picnik
Yesterday Google announced that it was inline to buy Picnik, for those of you who don’t know Piknik improves your photos with easy to use editing tools, with the capability to apply and create effects, remove red eye and generally alter your photos to get a great picture. Google already own Picasa so this addition is definitely another interesting addition to their portfolio of recent acquisitions. Continue reading
Future of SEO
Hey Guys,
There has been a lot of talk recently about the Future of SEO, there has always been the “SEO is dead/going to die” side of discussions which obviously we don’t agree with, i’ve never seen a half compelling argument for this and while ever search exist search optimisation will be needed.
This isn’t to say changes are in store however, Rand did a post Friday over at SEOMoz looking at his opinion of the future of SEO and I thought I would give my professional response to Rand’s ideas as well as some of my own.
Here’s the video for you to watch first, it’s less than 10 minutes long so don’t worry about a lecture. Continue reading
I Come Out of the Dark Ages; My First Apple Product
It’s a well known fact that designers like their Mac’s. I’m not a designer. Sure they look nice on the desks, they have decent power but let’s be honest you can build a PC 10x as powerful as a MAC for the same price. While I’m not a Mac hater I have never really owned an Apple product before, that’s right I don’t even have an iPod.
That’s because I usually have a phone with an MP3 player, why would I buy another? Well I needed a new phone and after all the hype I decided to go headfirst into the world of Apple and choose the iPhone 3GS. Continue reading
The No-Follow Fallout
Over the last few weeks there has been a big reaction in the SEM community regarding the changes in treatment (or maybe more the fact that it only the announcement of the changes) of the Nofollow tag from Google.
This post from Matt Cutts kind of starting everything off and there has been quite a lot of discussion on the blogsphere since then, as well as in Matts Comments.
In summary Matt revealed that Google changed it policy and handling of the Nofollow tag over a year ago but never bothered to update webmaster. Continue reading
Sitemaps Become More Important
Hey Guys,
We all know creating sitemaps is an essential part of any webmasters jobs these days but as time goes on they become more and more important. Aside from just supporting them Google made a series of changes last week (here’s their post) to give you even more reason to use them.
The most important update is that Google now support a much bigger sitemap than before, the previous 1,000 child limit has been raised to 50,000. That means size is no longer an excuse for not submitting! Continue reading
When will ‘Google Suggest’ Adverts?
At the end of May Google announced plans to integrate paid adverts into their Suggest functionality and ever since then I have been keeping a close eye on the suggestions offered to me when I search. That will sound really geeky to most of you but this new strategy could have a significant impact on the way that paid advertising on Google works, so to ensure that we stay ahead of the game we need to make sure that we know about such changes as soon as they are implemented. Continue reading
Search Engines, Knowledge Engines or Decision Engines
The last couple of weeks has been exiciting for search engines with the launch of Wolfram Alpha the “knowledge engine” and Microsoft’s new search engine or as Microsoft are referring to it “decision engine” Bing.
Wolfram Alpha markets itself as being the “first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systemative knowledge immediately computable by anyone”. Continue reading