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A quick tip to stop your attempt to reach Google.com from being hi-jacked by Google's geo-targetting: Typically, Google will serve you the Google site that it considers most relevant to ...
(Filed in Blog, August 21st, 2006)

Site Migration Made Easy - 301 Redirects Revisited

We have bumped into a number of questions recently about how to migrate a site from one technology to another, or even from one domain to another, without massacring Google ...
(Filed in Blog, July 28th, 2006)

Testing Meta Tag: NOODP. Success!

Google is returning the DMOZ title for my site (screenshot) when a search reflects the precise words in my DMOZ listing. So I have added the NOODP meta ...
(Filed in Blog, July 25th, 2006)

No More DMOZ Titles and Snippets in your Google Listings

Today Google announced a new Meta Robots attribute that specifically requests that data from the Open Directory Project is NOT pulled into the Google listing for the site. To ...
(Filed in Blog, July 13th, 2006)

Google Image Search is 5% of all Google Searches

Reminder of the importance of Google Images: According to the latest statistics from Hitwise, Google Image Search receives around 5% of all downstream visits from Google UK (it ...
(Filed in Blog, June 19th, 2006)

Google Dominates UK Market - Hitwise Report

Hitwise.co.uk today released one of their regular PR reports on the state of the UK search marketplace. The key findings from a Google optimisation point of view are related ...
(Filed in Blog, June 8th, 2006)

Google Trends and Phrases

Google Trends doesn't assume phrases. I know that Google Search doesn't either, but the way in which Google Trends is presented on its home page, you can be forgiven for ...
(Filed in Blog, June 5th, 2006)

Google Trends - Vacuum, Dyson, Hoover

Has 'dyson' become the new generic term for a vacuum cleaner, superseding the good old 'hoover'? It would seem the answer is yes:...
(Filed in Blog, May 20th, 2006)

Google Trends Launches

Fascinating new search trend tool now available from Google Labs. Google Trends allow you to compare search behaviour for particular expressions over time. It also displays links to ...
(Filed in Blog, May 11th, 2006)

Web Design Firm Recommendations

I get asked this all the time: 'Steve can you recommend someone to help implementing the optimisation work you have recommended?' Such requests happen typically when the projects are small and ...
(Filed in Blog, May 9th, 2006)