We all use the internet everyday and it is now a major part of most of our lives. But how many blogs are there out there? Who invented the internet? Who invented the worldwide web? How many registered website are there? How many images are uploaded to FlickR everyday? …And more.
Back in May 2009 Bing’s Webmaster Spokesman told us that:
“We are busy adding upgraded and updated technologies to provide better search results. That’s good news for you!” (more…)
Last month Google announced they would be supporting the canonical tag across cross domain platforms. The canonical tag has been supported since February for both internal URLs and subdomains. However, today I noticed that Google was returning a subdomain and a root domain with the same content, even though the subdomain has a canonical tag pointing to the content on the main domain.
Back in February 2009 – Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft all announced that their search engine platforms would support a new type of tag that would inform search engine spiders of the ‘canonical’ page when there are several available. This tag could be used only internally or on a subdomain of that URL. Last week Google announced on their blog that the tag is supported across multiple domains. This will help webmasters who (for whatever reason) do not have server side control over their websites, whilst allowing the source domain to take precedent over any duplicate URLs.
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Last 26th of October I started a test to monitor how PDF documents are crawled and indexed by search engines.
The aim of the test was to try and find out the following things about PDF documents like:
So Bing thought they’d jump on the ‘our results don’t contain non UK specific websites’, which is in relation to Google’s decision to weaken the Geo-filter in mid June. This decision resulted in the SERPs being flooded by non-UK specific websites – and had Matt Cutts running to the hills after being chased by angry webmasters. But we can always rely on Bing to produce relevant results to a UK audience for universal search terms right?…..Right?!!!
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I awoke this morning to a beautiful sunny day over here in the UK, picked up my iphone to check my tweets and found that Matt Cutts had completed a YouTube video regarding the changes made within Google UK since the start of June. I was indeed shocked and amazed that he even considered answering a question that had a number of SEO professionals suggesting that the SERPs were broken. The general conclusion to Matt’s video was that ‘yes there are more .com websites ranking within Google UK’ and ‘its all about relevancy of the search query’. I think Matt has chosen to side step the real issue at hand and question that was being asked by Guavarian – the inclusion of relevant .com websites isn’t a problem – the problem is that the searcher’s experience is being diminished due to the inclusion of non-UK focused websites.
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We were told Twitter was the biggest thing since the printing press. We questioned “what’s the point of Twitter” but now with some research we hear that people can’t really be bothered with it. Stop Press, is it true, Twitter is pointless, Twitter is useless, Twitter is boring? Is this the end of Twitter? Well maybe, maybe not. (more…)
Google has apparently been inundated with complaints about invasion of privacy with its new Google Street View, one Village, Broughton even banned the car from driving through, so why are people behaving like a mixture of Luddites and the League of Gentlemen? (more…)
We all know that there are some nasty people out there as well as some seriously stupid people, but in a week when the Google Street Car was turned away from a village, are we getting taken for a ride by lazy online media outlets, newspapers and anti-virus developers. (more…)
Despite drops of in-store sales and, in our mind, a lot of scope for greater success in SEO attainable, Marks and Spencer’s online sales soared 20% in the latest quarter. (more…)
Recently, Google has unveiled its street view platform in the UK. Originating in the USA first, Google Street View offers users a 3d view of streets and cities. With Street View you can navigate along hundreds of thousands of roads, exploring in great detail using the navigation features to travel down any road, close, avenue, dual carriage way, or motorway of your choice.
Other than claiming to know all the words to Mama Mia in a macho, football loving office environment – there isn’t much more embarrassing than admitting to loving the massive new craze – Twitter. I continue to smash the insults for six as I soldier on with my Twitter quest. I want the world to know what I am doing! I want the world to be aware of the ups and downs of my life! Is this the sole reason people use Twitter? Is this the point of twitter? How can we define Twitter usage? All is below my friend.
We pride ourselves in Britain for having a great sense of humour and producing “The world’s best” TV comedy. Well if there was a Funniest Show award, it would not go to a British show, i’d certianly give it to the Daily Show. (more…)
Is there any record Facebook isn’t breaking at the moment? (Facebook doubles audience) Beating the mighty Google, Yahoo and Myspace… Facebook is now the website Americans spend most time on according to compete.com. (more…)
After failing to reach an agreement with the PRS YouTube is blocking all premium music videos to UK users making tens of thousands of videos unavailable to YouTube users from later on Monday. (more…)
Facebook’s UK audience grew by over 100% during the past 12 months to total 17.6m unique users. This figure concretes the lead over Myspace and Bebo which grew by just 7% and 6% respectively last year. (more…)
Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of the ever popular social networking site “Facebook”, said today that the site will be returning to its original ‘terms of service agreement’ with regards to stored user data. (more…)
Reading through Vanessa’s Fox’s post from search engine land on how all three search engines have come to an agreement on the new canonical tag left me with more questions than answers regarding an issue that is often ignored by your average every day webmaster.
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