Web Toastie

There have been some interesting posts of late providing SEO advice for unfamiliar websites. Malcolm Coles offered some suggestions for church blogs and Danny Sullivan gave Bill Gates some tips, but what about Google; the search engine giant? Google provides a starter guide to search engine optimisation, but it appears they don’t actually follow some [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A newly found ‘hack’ is doing it’s rounds on blogs, forums and social networking websites today. The trick involves altering the URL slightly on a Google search to retrieve so-called “real-time” results. You can tailor the results to be to a specific time frame, but is it really real-time?