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How relevant are Google’s search results?
Every now and then, we find ourselves getting very frustrated by Google's search results. We are great champions of the search engine and ultimately depend on it for our existence, but occasionally find evidence of fairly poor results that are hard to defend (believe us, we spend quite a bit of time defending Google and explaining why a particular site doesn't really deserve the high rankings that the site owner…
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Is Google going to punish keyword rich domains?
At the end of February, Google announced changes to its algorithm which aimed to improve the quality of its search results and reduce the rankings of low-quality content farms in favour of original, high-quality websites In a recent YouTube video, Matt Cutts shares his views on domains and the brand vs. keyword debate. In the video Cutts strongly emphasises his preference for “brand-able” domains and how the majority of the…
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Does white hat SEO work for competitive industries?
We have been guilty of not practising what we preach and haven’t updated our blog for a few weeks now (clients always come first!) but we are determined to make the time as we are always telling people how important it is to add more quality content to your site. This message is echoed in a recent video by Matt Cutts (should need no introduction – follow him @mattcutts) where…
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Real time indexing from Google
Matt Cutts, on his Gadgets, Google and SEO blog, has been writing about how quickly the search engine is now updating its results. Back in 2000, Cutts says, Google updated its index every few months, changing this to monthly halfway through that year. After an update in 2003, the search engine started to update its results incrementally, meaning that part of it index was updated on a daily basis. Now,…
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Google reinclusion – how long does it take?
The most severe form of penalty that Google can impose on a website is the removal of your site from its index. In simple terms, this will spell the end of any traffic you may have been enjoying from Google. One of the easiest ways to check the number of pages of your site Google has indexed is to use 'site:www.yourdomain.com' as a search query on Google (e.g. 'site:www.browsermedia.co.uk'). If…
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