Category Archives: SEO
Adsense ban, or Google playing God. Again
I manage on a daily basis The Makeup Mole, my wife’s beauty makeup blog, which currently gets about 13,000 visits a month. Not a huge deal in itself but becoming quite authoritative in its niche since Christabel has worked with … Continue reading
Google Places is a sloppy student
So here I am trying to make Google Places understand that Wellington Point, Queensland, is in Australia while Google Search plays God again and releases a fancy algorithm improvement, cross-referencing listings with user’s blocked sites. The thing is, Google sometimes … Continue reading
Aggregators = spammers
Content aggregation – who, in their right mind, would bother building such site? Take this email we received today from beautynewsfeed.com. I can tell you that this website receives very, very little traffic from Google, despite all its apparent content. … Continue reading
Search is going local
In my last post I stated that search was growing in the following directions: local, mobile, social and semantic. Today, when checking the ranking of my friends at Après Restaurant, a French restaurant in Sydney for which I did some … Continue reading
The Social Engine
The latest Bing-Facebook announcement by which your search results on Bing will take into account your Facebook friends’ likes and related favourite pages, and display socially-tailored results could be the light that will finally shine on Bing. The future of … Continue reading
Google Instant Profits
Today Google launched a new feature to its search interface – Google Instant – displaying search results as you type. The controversy on whether this feature has killed or will kill SEO has already started, as one would expect. Google’s … Continue reading
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No SEO tomorrow
Today of all days I decided to get out of my man cave and go for a walk. I had forgotten how even more beautiful it was just 20 mins from home. Bronte Bay is simply magnificent. Well, now I … Continue reading
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The power of blogs
I recently read this article on how Google is asking online newspapers to remove the links to the websites they refer to in their online articles. This is because Google will give more importance to a site that is linked … Continue reading