David Rosam on Nov 14 2007 | Filed under: Google, Search Engine Optimization, Search engines
A few weeks ago I asked Is localisation affecting your search engine performance? Obviously, moving a site with a .com domain to a UK-based server will solve the problem of getting the google.co.uk UK rankings.
But my colleague Paul Silver wondered if we we could find another way of establishing this blog’s UK provenance. We ended [...]
David Rosam on Aug 15 2007 | Filed under: Google, Search engines, Yahoo
Search Engine Journal reports that Yahoo Tops Google in Customer Satisfaction Ranking. The data comes from ACSI (The American Customer Satisfaction Index), whose Q2 2007 ACSI Scores show Yahoo up 3.9% to 79% satisfaction and Google down 3.7% to 78% satisfaction.
SEJ suggests the following as drivers for the results:
What could have influenced the rise in [...]
David Rosam on Jul 18 2007 | Filed under: Search engines
By a strange coincidence, after this morning’s entry on My Online Identity Score, and at the risk of getting truly sidetracked from the main themes of this blog, Adam Ostrow tests 6 People Search Engines on Mashable.
Out of interest, I looked for myself on those that weren’t down for maintenance (overload, perhaps?). Mr 10/10 Rosam [...]
David Rosam on Jun 27 2007 | Filed under: Search engines
If Hollywood can have sequels…
PC World suggests these alternatives to the well-known search engines.
David Rosam on Jun 15 2007 | Filed under: Search engines
I’ve just bookmarked sputtr.
It’s a site (really a page) that allows you to search on more engines and resources than you could probably name (mutterings of ‘name ten famous Belgians’ are heard from a shadowy corner of the office).
I think sputtr needs something more to make it really compelling, and I’d like the buttons [...]
David Rosam on Jun 08 2007 | Filed under: Google, SEO copywriting, Search Engine Optimization, Search engines
The Google Webmaster Blog summarises them:
Quality guidelines - specific guidelines
* Avoid hidden text or hidden links.
* Don’t use cloaking or sneaky redirects.
* Don’t send automated queries to Google.
* Don’t load pages with irrelevant keywords.
* Don’t [...]
David Rosam on Jun 06 2007 | Filed under: Google, Search engines, Yahoo
We’ve all been looking at the effects of the algorithm tweaks going on at Google. Then, earlier this week, we noticed some strange stuff happening with Yahoo results. Here’s why (from the Yahoo Search Blog):
We rolled out some changes to our index and ranking algorithm last night. So, as you know, throughout this process you [...]
David Rosam on May 29 2007 | Filed under: Comment, Search engines, Yahoo
Yep, I got snagged by this post on Yahoo’s blog.
What are the common words that vex our searchers? We applied our best spell checking skills to the data and came up with this list of the top 20 misspelled words in Search…
1. Wallmart (Wal-Mart)
2. Rachel Ray (Rachael Ray)
[...]
David Rosam on May 21 2007 | Filed under: Comment, Google, Search Engine Optimization, Search engines
Last week, Google announced it is to unify its search results into a single search, called Web. The news made the mainstream media.
On its blog, Google said:
Here’s the challenge in a nutshell: Until now, we’ve only been able to show news, books, local and other such results at the top of the page, like [...]
David Rosam on May 01 2007 | Filed under: Google, SEO copywriting, Search Engine Optimization, Search engines
The Google Sandbox is the part of the Google algorithm that keeps new sites out of the top pages for popular natural search results. If you have a new site, you’re potentially sandboxed for up to 12 months - we give 9-12 months as a rule of thumb. That’s maybe up to a year of [...]
