Firstly, what is Google+ ? Over the last month Google+ has brought much excitement to the social media industry and has definitely given social media giants, Facebook, a painful wake up call. I believe the reason Google+ has had such unbelievable success in their very short life span so far is down to two factors; …
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Part 2 – Project SEO Series – On-site optimisation
In this week’s video we introduce you to our new dashboard as well as take you through the fundamentals of on-site optimisation by using webgrowth.biz as the case study. In a nutshell Project SEO has exposed many on-site SEO fundamentals that WebGrowth is getting wrong. We uncover what they are and a remedy to fix …
Googler gives tips on News Search
Something I haven’t really touched on in my previous blog posts is Google News. Google’s Webmaster Central Blog posted this informative video on ways to improve exposure within Google News. To sum up the video, Maile Ohye gives us two critical factors for success within Google News. They are original content and having a sitemap …
Canonical issues
Something that is very important but most webmasters overlook is Canonical optimisation. A common canonical mistake is having both http://www.mydomian.com and http://mydomain.com, Google will index both. Thus it causes duplicate content issues and page strength syphoning. Examples of Bad Canonical Optimisation http://www.mydomain.com http://mydomain.com http://www.mydomain.com/index.html http://mydomain.com/index.html Example of Good Canonical Optimisation http://www.mydomain.com Thanks to the guys …
How to set a geographic target
Many websites with top level domains e.g .com, .net, .biz etc have not set their geographical target. Google search can identify where you are searching from by checking your IP address. So for example if you were sitting in Paris, searching Google. Google will immediately redirect your search to google.fr (France). It is therefore critical …
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