Keyword research for SEO was a breeze once upon a time; however, Google has made it much tougher now. Now, when searching for keywords, many rules and strategies need to be kept in mind, which include different factors. These are; the proper use of keywords, domain name, well-engaged content, promotion, marketing and appropriate SEO. Without all these things, websites and ... Read More »
Google has just pushed out an update in the Google Play Store, which updates the default Android keyboard. The cool thing about this is that it will use Google’s intelligence to make better spelling suggestions. As soon as the update is installed, it won’t just be correcting spelling, oh no! It will also make suggestions based on an internal dictionary ... Read More »
An ongoing thread that tracks Google activity has webmasters and SEOs asking whether there are any algorithmic updates going on, either Panda or Penguin. The WebmasterWorld responded by saying, Google has not said anything about any update, but there has been many penalties, widespread targets and manual actions on the manual side, which happened over the past couple of weeks. ... Read More »
Twitter users in Turkey have reported that the social media site has been blocked in the country. Some users who have tried to open the Twitter site seem to be being redirected to a statement by Turkey’s telecommunications regulator. It quotes a court order to set ‘protection measures’ to the site. This came after MP Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised to ... Read More »
Google is currently working on a refresh of Panda, which is going to be kinder and softer. The goal of this Panda is to help small businesses that may have been crushed by previous versions of the algorithm that Google has released occasionally since the early launch in February 2011. Panda was firstly launched as Google’s algorithmic answer to low ... Read More »
Google’s Matts Cutts has announced that they have penalized a large guest blog post, but which one it is, has not been mentioned. The search community believes it is MyBlogGuest.com that has got hit and the owner of the site; who is a respected member of the SEO industry, has confirmed they indeed get a manual action in Webmaster Tools ... Read More »
A few years ago, Google launched Google Webmaster Academy, which was aimed at helping newbies learn the ropes quickly with general Google webmaster and SEO questions. Now, Google has modernized the portal with a new showy logo and new content. This can be accessed at: g.co/WebmasterAcademy. Google added new content, updated the original content and added three new sections, which ... Read More »
Carrying on from SEO Questions You May Want Answered (Part One), let’s shed some light on more questions, which still remain unanswered! Question Nine What is a robots.txt? This is a page where search engines get information about pages of a company that want to be indexed or crawled. This page can be found by going to: YOURDOMAIN/robots.txt. Question Ten ... Read More »
There’s many thing out there, which at some point we are all eager to know about, but for some reason fear to ask. The reason behind this could be anything, but is normally embarrassment. Nowadays, people see asking a question as an embarrassing situation when in fact, it is the total opposite. Keeping it within you won’t get you anywhere, ... Read More »
Google’s Matt Cutts spoke at SMX West last week, where he said that it wouldn’t surprise him, if mobile search surpassed desktop inquiries this year. A Google speaker casually made a similar comment during a roundtable discussion at the International Franchising Association conference, New Orleans. Google was asked for an authorized statement; however, the company failed to provide one. Google ... Read More »
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