As with most things on the internet related to Google, what Google wants, they usually get. In this instance we are talking about a secure web. It sounds like a good idea and now Google is taking steps to encourage everyone to move in that direction. From earlier this year, the Google Chrome browser would […]
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Deepweb on Google+ Google has released Pages for Google + Google+\’s Pages are similar to Facebook Pages and allow Brands such as companies, organisations, local businesses, celebrities and other entities to create a presence on Google+ Previously there had been a lot of criticism of Google for not allowing these from the start of Google+.
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Over the last few weeks there has been plenty of stories backwards and forwards about the quality of Google\’s results, specifically that the quality is going down. Google counter in an official blog post to counter that specifially by saying that search quality is better than ever (though conceding a short term increase recently) Penned
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Here is an interetsing video from Matt Cutts of Google with Danny Sullivan from SearchEngineLand, talking about future trends for search in 2011. They talk about the increased importance of social media in influencing ranking. While still small, it shows a shift towards social as a means of determining importance of content on the web. Towards the
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Will it be Binghoo or Yabing? With the announcement that Microsoft and Yahoo collaborating on search for a 10 year license term, one of the key outcomes is that Yahoo search will now be powered by Bing, the new Microsoft \”Decision Engine\” After Xtra ditched MSN and went to Yahoo, Microsoft is back in the
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This is a real winner, Google is providing $75 worth of free advertising on Adwords for NZ businesses that have not used Adwords before. Google Adwords Offer As a response the the current economic climate, the campaign is titled \”Google Business Stimulus Offer\” and is available till the end of August. I recommend people take
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1. Sitemaps Sitemaps are a great way of telling Google what pages you want to be indexed. Google will index your site regardless of using a sitemap, however, this tool makes it easier for Google to index those pages you want it to. You can exclude pages if you really want to, but you can
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One thing that is a hot topic at the moment is paid links. Google has said for a few years that it frowns on the idea of paid links. This also includes paid posts that include links (I suppose essentially the same thing). Recently Google Japan was found to be doing just that and was
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