SEO

We’ve all got used to being able to control how the major search engines index our sites using a combination of robots.txt and the robots meta tag to add attributes like ‘noindex’ to individual pages. While this works great for the pages themselves, it’s not so good for non-HTML, indexable content such as PDFs or embedded media, as we have no HTML <meta> tag in which to insert the meta-information. In this article we take a look at a potential solution to this problem: the X-Robots-Tag HTTP Header.
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Someone wrote in a business blog I read earlier “Has Google changed its SERP results, I’m no longer number one, has anyone else noticed a change?” Which made me laugh. Then it made me think, how often does Google change its SERPS? (more…)

Why is it that Live search continues to return a broken link at the top of the rankings, even though the website has not been live since the end of January? Is this the main reason that Live search has a 8.2% market share in the US and Google has a 64.2% market share.

So why is Live search still returning an illegal movie website at the top of their rankings for a popular keyword term?

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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…)

Yahoo! have appointed Carol Bartz, formerly of software company Autodesk, as their new CEO.  Bartz will replace Jerry Yang who stated in November 2008 that he would be stepping down from his role.  Yang co founded Yahoo! with David Filo in 1994.
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