Category Archives: Seo Articles

A Reminder to Webmasters: Check your Robots.txt File’s Health

Googler John Mueller posted on his Google+ profile a reminder to webmasters. He said, “…things to keep in mind when working on a big website: If you have a giant robots.txt file, remember that Googlebot will only read the first 500kb”. He also added, “If your robots.txt is longer, it can result in a line being truncated in an unwanted way.”

Smart Traffic’s SEO Trends for 2012

As 2011 draws to a close, we can reflect on the changes in seo and Google over the year. 2011 may have been the year of the Panda with Algorithm updates shaking up the SERPs and scaring webmasters into action, but this wasn’t the only advancement which gave search engine marketers something to think about when approaching strategies for 2012.

The Christmas Holidays are nearly upon us, and, like you, our SEO experts are looking forward to a well-deserved rest over the coming days.

Before we break for festivities we would like to take the opportunity to thank all of our customers for their support throughout 2011. This year has been an important one for Smart Traffic, and your role as our client cannot be underestimated. We were listed in tenth position in the Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 for 2011; this is an annual league table of Britain’s fastest growing private technology companies, and our listing is a testament to our expertise and our customer’s loyalty.

Independent learning is one of the major benefits of the Internet. For about every subject that we typed, in just a matter of seconds we can already get a huge amount of information. But behind all this continuous improvement of Google algorithms, they have somehow complicated our simple way of searching. As a result we find ourselves frustrated if we don’t get to see what we were looking for and most of the time we get disappointed especially if we find ourselves landing on the wrong search result.

Google’s 100 search results moved to Search Settings (Preferences)

A couple of days ago I posted about the update to Google’s Advanced Search removing the ability to show 100 search results per page and gave a tip on how you can continue to use it by editing the URL. Well, now I have managed to find it. After the Advanced Search update it has been moved to Search Settings

Smart Traffic supports the SOS Children’s Charity

The catastrophic flooding in Thailand this year has resulted in the loss of many lives and many people in different areas have been left homeless..

Bing Maps Introduces Locate and Share Functionality

Say you were out on a road trip with friends. Since each one of you wanted to be behind the wheel, you all thought that going on a convoy in separate vehicles would be a great idea. Things were going smoothly until you realized that you just lost your mates at the last turn. You are the only one who’s familiar with the directions so how would you help them find your location? Well, this blog intends to provide you with an instant solution to such a scenario.

Four New Features Added to Google+

A few weeks back, we received updates on how Google+ now supports real-time search and hash tags. Then there was the option for users to switch Blogger profiles to their Google+ account. Just recently, a couple more innovative improvements were added. Four new features in four different areas have just been rolled out…

Google Email Address Set ups Authorship

Google has opened up a new opportunity for you to be acknowledged and likewise give tribute to the person who is responsible for the wealth of information found on your online resource, by enabling the use of ‘authorship’ to content. We have supplied the step by step instructions on how to do it…

Secured Search: Google's Answer to Search Privacy

A few days ago, Google announced that it has started rolling out encrypted search for some signed in users. This means that those who log on to their Google accounts will be redirected to https://www.google.com by default. All search query data and results through the secured site will be encrypted. Therefore, people browsing through unsecured networks such as a public WiFi can now breathe with ease. That is, if they are signed in or have directly accessed the secured site (in case if they don’t have any Google account)…