Article Archive of Posts Tagged “Google”

As more mobile-devices connect to the internet and GPS becomes ubiquitous, delivering search results specific to your location is the next logical step for search engines. Personalisation of search is an obvious way to provide results that are more relevant to each individual customer's needs.... read more

OK so it may not be as simple as that but, as one of the senior SEO Consultants here at I-COM, I thought it was about time I shared some of my tips and tricks that I've gathered over nearly 10 years of Search Engine Optimisation and link building. While we all know that social media... read more

This morning I was trying out the new SEO Moz linking tool. One thing that struck me when examining sites in a particularly competitive niche was the aggressive nature of the link building strategies employed by the highest-ranked sites. When I say aggressive, I mean that the sites in question... read more

Naturally, we've been watching the development of Google's real-time search with interest. Everybody's probably familiar by now with the scrolling box they're inserting into search results:I was reading a bit about what people are speculating is behind the real time search algorithm and what... read more

Google could be preparing to exit China following attacks on the Gmail accounts of several human-rights activists. When Google.cn launched in January 2006, they bowed to Chinese law and allowed their index to be censored. China has been blocking sites and monitoring internet use since... read more

While doing research for a different blog post I spotted something I've never noticed before - Google is returning a map of the "trends" for "google china" at the bottom of the SERP for "google china." They're also offering people the option to add the widget to iGoogle. Anyone else seen this... read more

There are many changes afoot in 2010 at Google. Citations are becoming a major force, real-time search is available, personalisation is up and running. However, even as Google strives to be as local, inclusive and relevant it still likes adding exceptions. Following the furore after... read more

We have all typed our name into Google once or twice to confirm our ‘internet fame’, obliterate our name exclusivity and see how much information about us is really out there . But have you ever considered paying to have results removed or promoted in light of other people searching for you?... read more

Last week I wrote a blog post about how Google is changing by including a Twitter feed in some of its search results and also that it is now visiting websites more often for the latest news to include in its search results, often referred to as ‘real time search’. Often when producing... read more

The changes to Google, otherwise known as the Caffeine update, have been in the minds of most internet marketers for a while.  These changes have slowly been filtering their way through into Google's results. One the most anticipated features is the addition of real time search using... read more