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Sound Advice from Google

Posted on 29th January 2010 at 4:11 pm by Rik Stewart

A recent Google Webmaster Central Blog post advises webmasters to request a visitor's permission before installing software. This is excellent advice. Automatically installing software on to a visitor's machine can make it appear that the site is installing malware.
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Search engines and clutter

Posted on 14th December 2009 at 2:15 pm by Rik Stewart

With more and more extras being added to search engine results pages, they are starting to look just a little cluttered.
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Google and realtime search

Posted on 9th December 2009 at 12:25 pm by Rik Stewart

Google has added real-time search to the search results. But is it a good thing?
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What is PageRank?

Posted on 30th October 2009 at 5:24 pm by Rik Stewart

Take an in-depth look at Google PageRank. We explain what PageRank is, how pages get it and share it (or don't), how Google really uses it, and explore some tantalising hints for what else Google might be doing with it.
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So what's wrong with duplicate content?

Posted on 22nd October 2009 at 12:10 pm by Rik Stewart

There are very few occasions when duplicate content is a good thing. The search engines are not fond of it; it takes up unnecessary space in their indices and, in some cases, stops them from showing the right page.
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Google say we don't use the keywords meta tag (again)

Posted on 24th September 2009 at 9:26 am by Rik Stewart

Possibly prompted by a couple of cases in which the appearance or absence of words used in the meta keywords on a website's tag has resulted in legal action, Google has recently reiterated its stance on the keywords meta tag.
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Google Parameter Handling tool

Posted on 22nd September 2009 at 8:48 am by Rik Stewart

The usefulness of Google Webmaster Tools has just gone up another notch. Google has introduced a feature that allows a webmaster to suggest which URL parameters it should ignore.
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Searching microblogs

Posted on 6th August 2009 at 10:37 am by Rik Stewart

The popularity of microblogging and, in particular, of Twitter has spawned many websites that try to capitalise on the growing trend, making "Real Time Search" a "hot new thing".
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Microsoft and Yahoo Deal Official

Posted on 29th July 2009 at 4:13 pm by Rik Stewart

Microsoft and Yahoo! have announced a deal that changes the search landscape considerably.
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What? No Bing Bot?

Posted on 27th July 2009 at 10:37 am by Rik Stewart

Microsoft's new crawler is ramping up its spidering.
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