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14 – SEO – 20/03/2013. On March 20, 2013 by Sean. So apparently there has been another Google update…. Lets be honest (for once) and say that the majority of SEO agencies have probably got used to explaining indifferent results to their clients over the last couple of years. So one more panda update won’t really make a massive difference. Will it? Forever checking ranking results to see whether they are still ranking 1st for their “priority” term(s). Running out of sources to get organic traffic. The res...
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Keyword Data back in Analytics | Search Watch
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Cutting edge search news from, like, 3 days ago or something. Keyword Data back in Analytics. January 9, 2015. One of trad SEO’s biggest gripes for the last couple of years is the obscuring of keyword data in Analytics. Of course, much of that data has actually been available in Webmasters Tools for quite a while now. That’s gone, and the data from GWT is showing up in Analytics. Spoofed Referral Traffic in Google Analytics →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).
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April | 2015 | Search Watch
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Cutting edge search news from, like, 3 days ago or something. Google in the mobile ecosphere. April 22, 2015. Mobile is a problem for Google. It’s a paradigm shift that few saw coming just 5 or 6 years ago, but the launch of the pocket web has begun to completely reshape our experience of the internet, which sites we interact with, and how we organise our spending. There are two reasons this creates problems for Google. Less space for ads different user XP. The old rubrick about organic listings in parti...
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Tabs, “Hidden Content” and Google | Search Watch
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Cutting edge search news from, like, 3 days ago or something. Tabs, “Hidden Content” and Google. January 15, 2015. Tabs are a handy, universally understood visual metaphor that have been used for many years by designers to make manageable and usable pages. There has always been a small degree of confusion about whether or not Google treated tabbed content as ‘hidden’ content and whether or not they would penalise sites using tabs. But I think Google and I disagree on this. Recent uses of the site: co...
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Schema: Addenda | Search Watch
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Cutting edge search news from, like, 3 days ago or something. November 28, 2014. Schema was (you may recall) backed by Microsoft, Yahoo (in the days when it still had its own search tech) and Google. As I’ve described, I’m not seeing anything in Google’s treatment of the site beyond the adoption of aggregate ratings in the SERPs. However, in Bing (and thus Yahoo! The site has seen a positive bounce in traffic and (one assumes) ranking. Is Blackhat SEO Dead? Keyword Data back in Analytics →. Join 189 othe...
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Spoofed Referral Traffic in Google Analytics | Search Watch
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Cutting edge search news from, like, 3 days ago or something. Spoofed Referral Traffic in Google Analytics. January 15, 2015. January 15, 2015. The contined spoofing of referral traffic in Analytics highlights a couple of things:. Shortcomings in one of Google’s flagship products. The shift away from old-skool SEO for spammers to more subtle ways of gaining traffic. My hobby site ( weirdisland.co.uk. These are covered in good detail over at Refugeek. And by Dave Buesing. In fact, the referral itself was ...
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Google’s Eccentric Choice of Review Partners | Search Watch
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Cutting edge search news from, like, 3 days ago or something. Google’s Eccentric Choice of Review Partners. February 4, 2015. February 24, 2015. While these might be hilarious, it doesn’t really indicate that Google is promoting or policing its product properly. But what should be of more concern Google’s product managers in this space is the drawing in of review scores from other providers (hint: go look for a new job! Reviews from… webcompanyinfo.com? Just this kind of crap. The answer lies, as ever, i...
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Carps | Search Watch
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Cutting edge search news from, like, 3 days ago or something. June 27, 2016. Firstly, the bog-standard explanation of AMP:. What’s it stand for? It stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages,. And what’s that? It is basically another web ‘standard’. A limited version of HTML that results in really lean pages that load faster (basically for mobile) and – perhaps more importantly – don’t contain as much crap as normal web pages. And I should care because? So what does that mean to a regular schmo? Secondly, most ...
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No: Google doesn’t index your meta description | Search Watch
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Cutting edge search news from, like, 3 days ago or something. No: Google doesn’t index your meta description. March 9, 2015. I was asked recently whether Google actually indexed your meta description and I was about to say “of course! 8221; when I had one of those rare flashes of caution and decided to check. Our company’s home page has the natty meta description of:. Yet when you use the site: command to check whether it has been indexed, Google wags its finger and says no. This happened because our blo...
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Search Watch | Cutting edge search news from, like, 3 days ago or something | Page 2
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Cutting edge search news from, like, 3 days ago or something. Page 2 of 9. Keyword Data back in Analytics. January 9, 2015. One of trad SEO’s biggest gripes for the last couple of years is the obscuring of keyword data in Analytics. Of course, much of that data has actually been available in Webmasters Tools for quite a while now. That’s gone, and the data from GWT is showing up in Analytics. November 28, 2014. The site has seen a positive bounce in traffic and (one assumes) ranking. Is Blackhat SEO Dead?
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