Category Archives: Seo Articles

Google Updates Rich Snippets for Global View

This week, Google announced two minor updates on their algorithm. These had something to do with the summary of information about the website that surfaced in the search results, otherwise known as “Rich Snippets”. This aims to provide every user around the world the most relevant results in a shortest amount of time.

National newspaper, The Telegraph, appears to have come across some technical difficulties – the entire site is returning a 404. Try accessing the homepage or clicking through to articles via Google News and all pages have been removed. As one of Alexa’s Top 1000 websites, any downtime will results in a significant loss of traffic and revenue. Areas on sub-domains are still currently intact.

Google Updates Image Search and Optimisation

Recently Google published their highlights of implemented updates from the month of March. Quite a few of these changes where focused on image optimisation. Let’s take a quick recap on what these significant updates are and pick some tips on how to comply with the modified algorithms for image search relevance.

4 Things You Should Know About Bing Webmaster Tools

Still not using Bing Webmaster Tools? Bing’s Webmaster Program Senior Product Manager Duane Forrester gives you four reasons to think again and revealed enticing facts about BWMT.

Google HTTP Referrer Changes User Experience

Several months ago Google announced that it was implementing SSL encryption to increase the privacy and security of your searches in the Web. In relation to the said change, Google has just released an update on upcoming improvements for search query data.

Pagination Markup: Google Explains Further

On our previous post “Google’s new approach for View All and Paginated Pages” last September 2011, we introduced various ways of implementing pagination based on:

Google Webmasters Tool Safe Access Sharing

At long last, the mammoth search engine has granted a popular request of most site owners with Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) accounts. That is, to share access to people who are considered to be part of the project without giving over access details (e.g. username and password). Remarkably, this update has given each member of the team the privilege to perform their role as “owner”, “full user” or “restricted”; depending on the level of access they are granted.

Google+ Circles Now Equipped With Voice

Recently, the search giant Google integrated their social network Google+ into one of its popular services – Google Voice. This amazing feature provides users with a centralized phone number and service, Furthermore, this new integration allows the option to organize and manage their callers via Google+ Circles.

Improved Symptom Search on Google

The Internet has now become an integral part of our daily life, especially where obtaining health information is concerned. This is evidenced by a tremendous growth of search queries concerning health and medical issues. Unfortunately, finding the most accurate and relevant results for this is not that easy. There are times when we don’t always find what we are looking for, other times it is nearly instantaneous.

Bing Introduces New Markup Validation Tool

Bing Webmaster Tools (BWT) has introduced the Markup Validation Tool, it’s aim is to enable developers, marketers and SEO professionals to access and process the implemented codes before they formally launch the page. This nifty feature can help ensure that pages operate properly…