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One privacy policy to rule them all as Google consolidates data
Google has been making some radical changes of late, from algorithmic alterations to increased socialisation of search. The company’s latest change comes in the form of combined user data and a new unified privacy policy. From the 1st March Google will combine information that (signed-in) users provide in one service with information from other Google services. In a nutshell, Google will treat you as a single user across all of…
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Pinterest – more than just a pinboard?
Chances are you’ve already heard of Pinterest. If you haven’t, Pinterest is a social network that allows you to organise and share visually pleasing things you find on the web; it’s a ‘virtual pinboard’. Early adopters of the site have been ‘pinning’ like mad to create ‘boards’ for all manor of purposes, like planning weddings, storing favourite recipes, bookmarking design inspiration, collating hilarious pictures of kittens and so on. There’s…
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Google gets personal with ‘Search Plus Your World’
Earlier this week Google rolled out some radical changes to its search results. Google’s Search, Plus Your World update aims to make search results more social by mixing privately shared information (Google+ content) with public web results (natural listings). In Google’s words, “Google Search has always been about finding the best results for you. Sometimes that means results from the public web, but sometimes it means your personal content or…
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Google Chrome is punished for sponsored links
Here at Browser Media, we’ve always taken a strong stance against the use of sponsored links in order to promote a clients website. Not only are these links often of poor quality, but they also go against Google’s Webmaster rules, something that can have severe consequences for a website as reinforced by Google’s algorithm update (Panda) last April. That’s why it was particularly shocking when it was revealed early last…
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Guest Blogging – How To Get Published
My last blog post, about a search query I often use and guest blogging in general, ended with sentence; “Of course, finding blogs is the easy bit, it’s obtaining the links that’s the challenge. More about that coming soon.” So, as promised, here is my brief guide to getting some links out of the hordes of bloggers out there. My “Ultimate Search Query” is an excellent method for finding opportunities…
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60 Seconds With…
Jason Hall, Westbury Garden Rooms Our regular readers will have seen Eve Ashwell from Virgin Balloon Flights discuss her experiences of redeveloping a website in October. Today, we welcome Jason Hall, marketing manager at Westbury Garden Rooms, to share his experiences of going through a company re-brand exercise. Not something that should ever be taken lightly, a re-brand can be an SEO nightmare (we told them not to do it!)…
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Finding Guest Blogging Opportunities and the Ultimate Search Query
Guest blogging is one of the best methods to obtain relevant, high value links, and can be an invaluable resource from an SEO perspective. Here is my brief guide to finding guest blog opportunities, based on my own link building experiences. Relevancy First things first, relevancy is key. When our dear old friend Mr Googlebot trawls through your backlinks, he takes note of the title and <h1> tags of the…
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September 2011 search engine market share – Google regains momentum
A month ago we published a blog post documenting the U.S. search engine market share data for August 2011, based on data from comScore. The information shared within that post was interesting as it showed that Google’s share of the U.S. search engine market had dipped to under 65 percent for the first time in two years. However, a month on and it looks like normal business has been resumed,…
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A load of old b(o)logs?
If you subscribe to our 'Browser Media Bytes' newsletter, you will have read my thoughts about the potential that blogs offer in terms of attracting search engine traffic in the last edition. (If you don't subscribe, then you are missing out and should head on over to the sign up page! Every other month and we promise not to spam you.) The sharper eyed amongst our regular readers will have…
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Sound advice for securing that SEO graduate job
If you’re a graduate looking to get a foot in the SEO door, there’s nothing more valuable than some sound advice from someone who has been there and done it. Our recently appointed Account Executive, Tom, has done just that and has some advice for all graduates looking to impress in their first interview. Over to Tom… "Oh dear graduates. This time last year you were probably drinking cider through…
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