I must say that I have been hugely encouraged by Google’s drive towards a more open communication with the Webmaster community recently. Their monthly search quality briefings and their decision to start encouraging users in Webmaster Central to set up email alerts are really helpful. In fact – so is the whole “Inside Search Quality” blog.

Today I saw that they had a video of a search quality… Continue reading...

Last month, Google said they changed “something” to do with links. To be exact, they “switched something off”. Now – I’m pretty confident that the changes just around the corner will be hugely more significant, but in the meantime I thought I would do a post that shows you several ways to test theories about links in Google for yourself… or just see what happens to my tests.

Test… Continue reading...

How Google crawls and retrieves data from the web. Some common SEO issues that arise. From Googler’s mouth. Continue reading...

It’s Christmas and as this blog has zero adverts and pretty much no money making schemes, I hope it’s OK to plug the services of my own consultancy. We grew a fair bit in 2011 and now have about 20 people at the SEO Consultancy that I founded back in 1999. Amongst them we have a dedicated link building team as well as expertise in Enterprise SEO. When… Continue reading...

This on e is for googlebot, Please go and recrawl the Receptional Daily so your index doen’t look in your SERPS as if it was last updated on the 6th of August.

Our CTO will be most grateful.

Fpr eveyone who is not a bot… one way to get your page recrawled when you don’t have access to Webmastertools or sitemaps is to simply link from a… Continue reading...