Welcome to the ineedhits Search Engine Marketing blog, where we share the latest search engine and online marketing news, releases, industry trends and great DIY tips and advice.
When setting up a new website it is easy to get excited about the design and content of the website, while forgetting the most vital aspect – SEO.
While your website might look great, searchers are never going to find it if you don’t implement even some of the SEO basics.
To help you out I have compiled a list…
Google’s has introduced two new link elements to the Webmasters Tools that offer a solution to something webmasters have often found very difficult.
Pagination is a way of making a website, which contains lots of information, more user-friendly in terms of browsing or searching. For example, Nike.com uses pagination by showing 30 or so shoes per page om their site…
Google announced an important update to how Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) will now classify your sub-domains. It’s not all bad news though – the total number of links for your site will not change.
The update can be explained simply in two sentences:
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Keeping its promise made a few months back, Microsoft recently unveiled a revised version of its Webmaster Tools.
Named “The Honey Badger Update”, Bing says that webmasters can expect to see some great improvement on the content and features of the tool set.
As outlined by Duane Forrester on Bing’s official blog post, the highlight of this update…
Google launched the Instant Previews in their SERPs back in November. The feature allows searchers to see a snapshot of the search listing to determine its relevancy before entering the site. However website owners have been complaining about how the pages are being rendered via the instant previews.
Google responded to the criticism highlighting that these problems were due to…
A sudden drop in their Google Sitemaps index count has been reported by many webmasters. Does this include you?
Some sitemap index counts have reported to have dropped as low as zero and Google has pinpointed the reason as being a minor bug in the Google Webmaster Tool causing indexing count to be temporarily impacted.
The problem was first reported…
There is some good news this week for Google Analytics users; you can now link your analytics profile to your Google Webmasters Tools account.
This feature will not only allow users to access their Analytics profiles from within their Webmaster Tools account, but also enable them to access a few more Google Analytics features easily. Users can now view their…
Getting hit with a Google penalty is every business owner’s worst nightmare.
In this blog post we will look at how to confirm a Google penalty and ways to resolve the situation if your site has been impacted.
Confirming a Penalty
If you’ve noticed a big shift in your rankings, there are a number of reasons why this…
Google’s Webmaster Tools team have again been busy working on new enhancements to the Webmaster Center – with 2 new additions to the Lab.
Today, the team announced the release of the following into the Webmaster Labs area:
The Webmaster Tools Lab is…
What’s your resolution for 2010? If Google’s predicted correctly, there’s quite a few of you out there wanting to learn the truths and dispel the myths of SEO.
Accordingly, the search giant has unveiled the New Google SEO Resources for Beginners post. It’s aimed at helping those starting out in the world of SEO…