Well, not really a shock, but good that Google has come out and said this finally.
We have know for a long time that the ‘keyword’ Meta tag was not being used by Google. There was also the suspicion that both Yahoo and Microsoft weren’t using it too. As we know the tag had been open [...]

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Is it April 1st?
Check this out… BT Launch BT SearchSmart.
This is done with Latitude, here is the press release from them.
You’re kidding right?

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I have not really posted on Bing, etc. There have been so many false dawns with Microsoft on the search front that I thought I would wait to see if this was just another re-brand with no substance.
More to come on this, but my three thoughts are:
1. Bing is actually quite a decent search engine [...]

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Sorry for the lack of posting recently. What with one thing or another, I just haven’t had the time to get some done. Maybe it is the temptation to just micro blog things now. Still, no excuses.
As you will have noticed I put up a box on the top right a while ago offering a [...]

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My goodness, I knew that Matt was making some videos about questions he has had regarding SEO, etc., but I didn’t realise how many he had made. Well done Matt, it must have been a hell of a session(s).
I found this video regarding checking for back links, etc. Matt also mentions the ‘link:’ search command. [...]

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There is a great tool for creating tag or word clouds for any given web page or site. It is called Wordle. Check it out.
For fun I though I would see what the word cloud looked like for this site. Here it is.

Guess what the most used word is? I will give you a clue [...]

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Have you ever received one of those emails that says,
“As you may know Google puts a great deal of store in incoming links. We have noticed that your site has very few incoming links according to Google. You can try this for yourself by typing ‘link:www.yourwebite.co.uk’ into Google. This will show you how many incoming [...]

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Last post on this one from me (famous last words…).
Great article from Danny Sullivan today on PageRank sculpting. Saves me a lot of work, thanks Danny. Also, included is a video from Matt Cutts from May (I will include below in any case), which unfortunately I missed the first time around (if I had seen [...]

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I always look closely at all of Google’s new tools. How I wish that Google Squared was around when I was at school!
Apart from the ways it can save you time in starting an information collection based activity or project, have a think about it from a link building persepctive.
Do you think the information sources [...]

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Apart from sounding like a children’s book about frogs or rabbits or both (hey, look out for the animated film too; Tom Hanks is the voice for the Flash character!), Google, JavaScript and Flash now have a slightly different relationship.
This is a slow evolution based upon Google’s need to index the web like no one [...]

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This is a post about me setting up some tests to see the differences between a few things in the search results. Really basic stuff at first.
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All will be explained later…

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A large part of any process that involves getting good at something is the ability to still hone the basics. This is particularly relevant if you want to become an expert. Think of guitarists practicing scales, football players practising free kicks, etc. Even though their ability level has far exceeded these elementary drills, the need [...]

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A quick one that (if I get the time) I will expand upon and do some research on, etc.
I was running a ’site:’ query in Google a moment ago and accidentally pressed the return key after I had typed in ’site’. Try typing in ’site’ into Google (I was using google.co.uk ‘the web’) yourself.
As you [...]

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This update was named after the guy who worked on it. So ‘Vince’ it is…
Anyway, ‘Vince’ is a tweak to Google’s results that affects some pretty big terms like ‘mortgage’, ‘loan’, etc. The update seems to favour bigger brands and has pushed some of these sites further up the rankings.
The upshot is that in most [...]

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As we know there is no such thing as a duplicate content penalty. However, duplicate content is a real issue for both search engines and those who wish to do well in this area.
The big three (Google, Yahoo and Microsoft) rarely get together on general standards, but when they do it is worth taking note. [...]

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