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Over the next few days, Internet users worldwide will begin to see a drastic change to Google’s Image Search.
As most people are aware, the current Google Image Search requires multiple steps to view images. Currently, when a user searches for an image, they are brought to a search result page with different images. To see a bigger version of the picture, users have to …
Cyber Monday shopping is well and truly over, so how did the online retailers fair?
It’s good news for retailers with more people than ever going online on Monday 26th November to purchase Christmas gifts at heavily discounted prices.
Here’s a rundown of the official stats:
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Google rolls out more than 500 algorithm changes each year and some of these updates can have a devastating effect on your websites’ ranking in the Google search engine.
We usually let you know each time there has been a major algorithm update, but do you know what to do once the update hits?
Search Marketer Adam Dince shared some great advice recently which I …
If you’re to believe Experian Hitwise then the days of making sure your website is at the top of the search engines is all but over.
Experian Hitwise UK just released some interesting results which show that there is a slow decline in the number of people using search engines across the board. The results indicate that overall visits are down by 40 million since …
Creating a new website can be a daunting tasks – is it easy to navigate? Does it have a good colour scheme? Does it include all the right content? While these are valid questions, the most important question you should be asking is “How will people find my website?”
The most common way they will find it is through a search. But typically, you have …
To continue the never-ending fight against web spam, Google’s Matt Cutts announced the release of the latest instalment of the Penguin ranking algorithm updates.
Called Penguin 1.1, this release is an update of the initial Penguin algorithm set loose back in April of this year.
Cutts, the chief web spam fighter at Google, tweeted news of this release saying that it will affect about 0.1% …
These days it seems a new social media website is popping up daily. This can be overwhelming to the average small business owners as they try to work out which network they should focus their time and efforts on.
While it’s good to have a presence across as many social media sites as possible, maintaining this presence can be time-consuming. The best bang-for-your-buck is going …
Here’s something new from Yahoo: a centralized location where business owners can get quick overviews of the effectiveness of their marketing strategies.
Dubbed The Yahoo! Marketing Dashboard, it’s a one-stop-shop for small businesses to track their marketing and includes the following features:
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Through an unexpected source, namely Twitter, Google has officially announced the release of the latest update to its ranking algorithm, Panda 3.4.
This update, which rolled out on March 24, is targeting low-quality websites. The update was specifically a “refresh”, so it seems no new signals or algorithm changes were made. This has resulted in very little impact to the majority of websites.
Google confirmed …
Here is some big news from Google – it has announced a new Panda update, 3.3
This launch refreshes data in the Panda system, making it more accurate and more sensitive to recent changes on the web.
As per Google’s announcement, the Panda data update took place on February 27th and it included the discontinuation of a link evaluation signal. Here are the full details:…