Category Archives: Seo Articles

Real-Time Search and Hash Tags Support: New Google+ Features

Google engineer Vic Gundotra announced two new features added to Google+ – real-time search and hash tag support.

When doing a search in Google+, it will display on the results page what it thinks is the “best” answer to your query. However, you might be interested on the most recently posted items…

Site Health: Latest Addition to Google Webmaster Tools

For those of you who manage several websites, you will definitely like this newest addition to the Google Webmaster Tools’ home page — Site Health. Whenever there are health issues found on the website, a red warning icon will appear right next to the site’s thumbnail image (as seen above). If you manage about a hundred online resources, this will give you a hint as to which one currently needs your attention; saving you time…

Google Product Search Redesign: Google Goes Stylish

The holiday season is just a few months away and in preparation, Google is making a series of improvements to its Product Search page. The new features were derived from those much loved and familiar ones that users used to enjoy on Boutiques.com…

Bing’s Adaptive Search + Action Buttons: For Personalised & Convenient Search

Bing introduces a more personalised and convenient search experience. It has recently rolled out a new innovation which aims to learn user search patterns and in return provide search results tailored to the searcher.

While search engines have gotten undeniably more intelligent over the years, there are still areas in which it faces a greater challenge. One of that is determining user intent. When somebody does a search for the term “restaurant” it could be someone looking for a place to dine or just a regular 8 year old kid, looking up for the word’s definition for his home work. The answer is ambiguous….

How do you say HELLO in French? How about in Japanese? In recent years, some foreign markets have risen to become key consumers both in and out of the Web. Japan, for instance, has now become more than just a top-notch electronics exporter but an important consideration if you want to make it big in Asia. Now if you are setting your sights on expanding your business globally, you may just want to pay closer attention to Google’s new update for Internationalization. It speaks about how you can manage to translate page content from the universal language (English) to the ones spoken by most of the people in your site’s target territory…

As reported on its official community blog, Bing has announced some recent tweaks made to its Shopping section providing its users more selection features, and helping them find products a lot faster and with much fewer steps…

Throughout the course of our SEO blog, we have been keen on sharing updates about improvements on Google Maps. Unbeknownst to many, other search engines have been perfecting their own version of this online navigational tool. One case in point is Bing Maps, which has recently undergone changes to its user interface. According to Dan Polivy, Senior Manager for this product, “We’ve consolidated actions that were previously scattered throughout the page, and concentrated them along the top, where you expect to find them. We’ve included text labels for most of the buttons. And, most importantly, we’ve focused on making the controls accessible while still allowing the map to be the focus of the page.” To get a better feel of the changes that were made, take a look at the screen shots below…

Early last month, we posted an article on this blog about the latest tweaks being made to Bing Webmaster Tools. Among the things we talked about were the improvements done to crawl error delay and user control management. This time around, Bing has announced developments being rolled out in a few main areas…

Twitter’s latest hatchling is now ready to take its first few steps. Fans of this micro-blogging service from all over the world will be pleased to know that the photo sharing feature is already in the roll out process. This development is of course related to the article posted on our SEO blog in early June about the new features that are sure to enhance user-experience for this social network…

More than two years ago, Microsoft unleashed its very own search engine into the cyberworld. Given the ease with which one can navigate through its various features, it did not take long for Bing to be embraced by users.

Like any good search engine, Bing has also been keen on expanding its search capacity to accommodate the needs and wants of users. As a result it has introduced a variety of products – Bing Travel being one of them…