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Duplicate Content: The Search Engines’ war on boring webmasters.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

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Duplicate content is a common issue on the internet. It’s when you copy and paste other people’s content. Search Engines don’t like this and they’d rather reward webmasters who actually take the time to write their own copy.

Visualise Google Search Trends

Monday, January 18, 2010

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Want to know one of Google’s best kept secrets? Google Insights is a powerful tool that can show businesses, of any size, valuable information about their keywords or targeted market.

Yahoo Still Indexes the Meta Keyword Tag! pt2

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

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A few weeks ago we mentioned that there were reports of Yahoo still using the meta keywords tag, even though they reported it as being useless. This is part 2 of that post and we discuss the results of our experiment.

4 Ways To Find Out How Old a Website is!

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

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So, you want to know how old a domain is (maybe a competitor’s website seems to getting better rankings) or you’re interested in buying a domain and want to know just how long that domain has been around for.

Mobile Devices Come to the Rescue of Coupons

Monday, December 14, 2009

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Searchers in the US will soon be able to view Google Maps Coupons on their mobile devices.

Link Building – Quality vs Quantity?

Monday, December 14, 2009

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Link building for every web master and search engine optimiser is a long and constant battle. How do we go about it? Do we buy links? Do we manually submit our website? The answer I’m afraid is not just a simple yes or no.

Google Announce New User-Agent

Monday, December 14, 2009

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In an attempt to give publishers more control over their content, Google has announced a new user-agent for the robots.txt file known as Googlebot-News.

IP neighbourhoods | Who you’re sharing the net with

Friday, December 11, 2009

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Nobody wants to live in a bad neighbourhood, those of us in Northern and Eastern Sydney in Australia would shudder at the thought of moving out west, with the gangs, guns and people who look like they’ve been taken straight out of Left 4 Dead.

New Region Tags in Google SERPs

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

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Officially announced by Google yesterday, the Google Search Results will now feature region information supplied by webmasters to the address line on Google search results. This new feature aims at improving search results by providing information about the website location to the right of the URL. With the new display, you no longer need to [...]

Yahoo Still Indexes the Meta Keyword Tag!

Friday, November 27, 2009

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A few weeks ago you may remember the ‘Ask the Search Engines’ session at SMX (Search Marketing Expo) in New York. A certain representative of Yahoo, Cris Pierry (Senior Director of Search at Yahoo), stated that support for the the meta keywords tag had ended “several” months ago, rendering the tag useless from an SEO [...]