Facebook has kicked up a lot of fuss about Google’s approach to privacy. You know the adage about people living in glass houses? Well, apply it here. As most people will know, sometimes the only way to make big corporations hear you is to use a very public platform to shout out your complaints. This [...]
Archive for September 2011
Bing rings in the changes but does anybody care?
Posted 26 September 2011 by SandyTagged As: bing, bing news, bing search, bing updates | Categories: News | Leave a Comment
Remember Bing – the other search engine? Well, Bing is working just as hard as Google and Facebook to improve its service and entice users. The problem for Bing is that it’s simply not considered as news worthy as the other two internet giants, so its updates fly beneath the radar. If you’re a regular [...]
6 Lessons SEOs can learn from CSI
Posted 21 September 2011 by SandyTagged As: SEO, seo lessons | Categories: SEO | Leave a Comment
I have recently started watching CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (that’s the original and best for the uninitiated) from scratch and it occurred to me that the show has several lessons to teach SEOs, with the overarching lesson being never give up. 1) A bad start isn’t the end of the world. The pilot episode is [...]
Will Aaron Wall’s new definition of doorway pages stick?
Posted 14 September 2011 by SandyTagged As: definition of doorway pages, doorway pages | Categories: SEO | Leave a Comment
Aaron Wall’s blog post yesterday (13 September) was a mite bitter. It related to doorway pages and, once you got past the attention grabbing (and misleading) title, Google’s apparent tendency to play fast and loose with its definition of doorway pages and apply punitive action in a way that can best be described as erratic. [...]
SEO industry regulation: always a contentious issue
Posted 14 September 2011 by SandyTagged As: regulate SEO industry, SEO industry regulation, SEO regulation | Categories: SEO | Leave a Comment
Way back in 2007, the question of whether the SEO industry should be regulated started capturing major attention. In 2008, the question got even bigger with some serious industry heavy-weights coming out both for and against regulation. In 2007, Steven Bradley wrote a blog in response to another blog that came out in favour of [...]
Don’t forget Google’s changes to Products Feed Specifications
Posted 8 September 2011 by SandyTagged As: | Categories: SEO | Leave a Comment
Earlier this year Google announced that it would be making changes to Google Product Search, specifically, it would change the Google Product Search Feed Specifications and Policies. This, according to Google, is to improve the user experience by including availability data and provide better browsing for related product variants. It has now issued a reminder [...]