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14 Jan, 2010

Search Engine Optimization Trends

Posted by: Kieron Hughes In: SEO

Both Google and Bing introduced a controversial change in their results yesterday, with the phrase ‘search engine optimisation’ being defaulted to ‘search engine optimization’. This may not seem like a big deal, but by forcing UK users to convert to American spelling it is giving less precedence to UK websites.

31 Dec, 2009

Last PageRank Update of the Decade

Posted by: Kieron Hughes In: SEO

After checking a couple of websites this morning, it seems there is a Google Toolbar PageRank update taking place. There hasn’t been much said about it so far, but a few blogs and forums are confirming that there has indeed been an update. So far I have only seen PR changes on a couple of [...]

17 Dec, 2009

Rel=“nofollow” Exploitations?

Posted by: Kieron Hughes In: SEO

I came across an interesting thread on the Google Webmaster Help Forums today regarding potential nofollow exploitations. The question asked was whether a rel=”follow” attribute added to a HTML link would void the nofollow that is in place. Adding rel=”follow” of course does nothing on it’s own, but having two rel= attributes seems to cause [...]

07 Dec, 2009

Google Real Time Search Announced

Posted by: Kieron Hughes In: SEO

Back in September I blogged about a Google URL trick that allowed you to view so-called real time search results. The issue with this was that it wasn’t exactly real time search results that were being displayed, as pages needed to be indexed first before they could be listed. Today, however, that changes, as Google [...]

08 Nov, 2009

Custom 404 Page – Google Search Widget

Posted by: Kieron Hughes In: SEO

The topic of custom 404 pages has been done to death within the SEO industry, as everybody tries to give you the best tips on optimising your 404 page. However, I still come visit countless websites where there is either no 404 page, or simply a blank page with an even blanker message provided. I [...]



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