Personalised Search and It’s Impact on SEO
So Google recently announced that it has defaulted it’s search results to “personalised”. What does this mean in terms of the future of SEO? I’ll try to ...
Google’s July 09 Algo Change – Big Daddy 2?
On July 1st 2009 Google’s new algorithm kicked in much to the confusion of webmasters around the world. Some even compared it to the now infamous Big Daddy Algo change back ...
NoFollow Attribute and Javascript Links: Did the Rules Change?
A recent statement by Matt Cutts at SMX advanced has caused confusion and anger among webmasters regarding the use of nofollow tags for pagerank sculpting.
It was previously believed ...
Top 10 SEO Consultants To Follow on Twitter
SEO is a fast changing industry and keeping up with the latest SEO news and techniques is paramount to a successfull SEO career. Thankfully, the internet has provided the means to ...
Google Announces Longer Description Snippets
In a move hardly surprising to SEOs Google has officially announced two new “improvements” in its search results; “longer search result descriptions” (snippets) ...
QDF: Query Desreves Freshness
QDF is a term used to describe the thought process behind Google’s results for certain search queries’ ”deserving” of fresh and regularly updated content.
QDF ...
Is Google Favouring Brands in SERPS?
This debate was first kicked off by Aaron Wall and has been floating around in webamaster forums for a while now. The debate still lingers on with no absolute answer.
In response ...
Search Engines Agree on Canonical Tag
An agreement was struck yesterday by the three main search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) on the adoption of a new tag to tackle canonicalisation in the SERPs.
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SEO Checklist for the New Year
Lets get the new year started on the right SEO footing. I’ve summarised below a laundry list of critical SEO items to check for the new year.
Meta Data
Check all your ...
Latent Semantic Indexing & SEO
According to the Wikipedia, Latent semantic analysis (LSA) is a technique in natural language processing, in particular in vectorial semantics, of analyzing relationships between a ...
Influence Scores
Omar Kattan's (@omarkattan) PeerIndex is