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

A ‘Brand’ New Google

In case you hadn’t noticed a whole new Google has been brought to life in the wake of Searchology 2009. It has been a while since Google made an update this big so let’s take a look at exactly what changed!

Search Options

Search options is the name for the new sidebar expansion that Google have intergrated into search, you can bring it up by pressing the “show options” link just below the Google logo on a search results page. Continue reading