Category Archives: Google SEO

What Google’s +1 means for the Future of SEO

The launch of the Google’s +1 feature has caused concern and intrigue within the search industry. Most SEO specialists are aware that increasingly social signals are driving search results, with Twitter mentions by ‘influential’ users now included as one of the many algorithm factors. While Bing has accepted the social media dominance of Facebook by reaching an agreement to include “Likes” in SERPs, Google have been continuingly looking to gain in this sector. That raises the question, should we be considering the +1 are a social media platform or a search device…and the answer is probably both.

Why You Should Try Out Google’s New “+1” Feature

Just this morning, a colleague shared a link to an article detailing Google’s latest project – +1. In a nutshell, the latter is a button a user can click to show his stamp of approval for just about anything of interest – from cosy pubs to summer fashion trends. It is set to appear on the search engine results pages (SERPS) so that you can conveniently show friends, family, and the rest of the virtual world which sites make it to your “check this out” list…

Submit Video Information to Google Today

Like much of modern society, the websites of today have also gone on hyper drive. Technology’s perennial quest for something better and faster has had even its own offspring striving to keep up. The evolution of the Internet is a perfect example of this. Every minute a new sort of output appears – whether it is informative or opinionated in nature. On a more specific level, online resources have also become more dynamic. It is no longer enough to launch a static, four-page site. Flash-based graphics and the latest content now determine the amount of viewer patronage a blog or e-commerce shop gets…

Google Unveils Page Speed Extension for Chrome

In life, we are often taught not to make a big fuss out of trivial details. While patience might be a basic, I am finding it hard to apply as I wait for a web page that is taking forever to load. Virtue aside, I recently discovered that such a scenario should not be readily blamed on your online connection or that faulty Internet cable. As the web connoisseurs at Google explain, page speed can be another factor for a site’s turtle-like pace…

Google Categorises Ranking Penalties and Their Duration

Have you experienced being penalised by Google for violating their Quality Guidelines? If so then don’t be discouraged. Matt Cutts has released a new video clarifying some issues. This information has been around for some time but it is still something webmasters and site owners encounter without any idea on how/why they get penalised and when it will be removed…

The above table means that, for a plural Google search, say for example “Baseball bats”, the URL at number 1 Position will have 86% probability of having also a plural form in its anchor text. This means further that if the top ranking page has 1000 back links, 860 of it are using plural form [...]

I am doing a study to quantify the relevance of title tags and how it effects the Google Search results Ranking. I have hypothesized that the relevance rating of the title tags could be related by: Relevance Rating = Presence of Exact Phrase in Title Tags/ Prominence of the phrase in the title tags A. [...]

Recently, I re-conducted a study with my fellow analyst to prove if self-social bookmarking can help Google ranking. Below are considered : a. No onsite work done, site update and link building done- this is to ensure that any ranking improvement is due to social bookmarking. b. Ranking data before any social bookmarking is gathered. [...]

Objective To determine the top characteristics of quality inbound link for Google ranking improvement in 2008 according to SEO practitioners gathered from top SEO forums. Sampling Plan In this study, the targeted population consists of all the members of the six SEO Forums, Yahoo answers and Google groups. The response of each unique member which [...]

A serious debate in SEO forums: Does high Page Rank and Website Traffic Correlate? Some websites experience high website traffic even with PR 0 or 1 homepage, whilst some homepages with a PR of 6 or 7 receive very little traffic. Well, technically if you understand the definition of Google Page Rank, it is a [...]