Category Archives: Google

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More Google Geolocation oddities

November 9, 2009 – 12:08 pm

Sometimes Google really puzzles me. I just did a search from the UK, using Google.co.uk, selecting UK-only results, for “chatsworth bed”. (I was checking to see how Chatsworth bed was doing against the competition.) The Local results that Google inserted into the serps after the third natural result were: Local business results for Bed near [...]

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Google through the looking glass

November 3, 2009 – 9:32 pm

My last post discussed changes in the search landscape but it seems Google is busy changing both the business landscape and the real landscape. A couple of weeks ago we had SEORoundtable reporting on them producing some very strange results in their search engine – searches in Google for “Google Ireland” were producing Google New [...]

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Webmaster Tools drops the pixie dust

October 16, 2009 – 12:41 am

In the last few days there have been some additions and one removal from Webmaster Tools. The removal is in some ways the more interesting for what it might signal for the future – Pagerank is no longer being mentioned. Now it was never much of a feature – they told you if you had [...]

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Who’s side(wiki) are they on?

September 28, 2009 – 12:16 pm

Google have now released something they’ve been beta-testing for a while – SideWiki is a commenting system built into the latest incarnation of the Google Toolbar. Basically what is does is shows a sidebar in your browser where it lists any comments that anyone makes about your site. Systems designed to do this sort of [...]

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Webmaster Tools – new feature lets you exclude parameters

September 17, 2009 – 12:51 pm

Last night while going over some clients’ accounts in Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools I noticed a new feature which hadn’t been there a few days ago. Under Site configuration / Settings there is now a section called Parameter Handling where you can set whether or not Google should ignore any of the parameters that [...]

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Localised fallout from bank search

August 17, 2009 – 1:52 pm

I often see ads and articles for local SEO that concentrate on getting into the Google Local results that appear for geographically-related searches – usually after the third organic result. While it’s a useful area to cover I do tend to take it with a little pinch of salt because I’ve seen some odd results [...]

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