Search Engines

Getting to Know Google Better [Infographic]

posted by Gary Cottam on December 6, 2011 in Search Engines

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Google has dominated search for years now and continue to do so not only because they’ve managed to get a chokehold on search users. No matter how much flak the big G may have been getting these days for showing …

Fun Time with Bing’s Video Homepage

posted by Gary Cottam on November 19, 2011 in Search Engines

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Haven’t really used Bing for a while?

Just in case you have spare time to play around, I suggest you visit Bing to see their new video homepage, which they launched in the UK and Australia earlier this week. While …

Finding the Infamous Google Search Quality Rating Guidelines

posted by Gary Cottam on October 27, 2011 in Google Page Rank

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I’ve been reading on the Google Search Quality Rating Guidelines (March 2011 version) that Jennifer Ledbetter linked to a couple of weeks ago, and set the SEO world abuzz with the news. The funny thing is that the guideline has …

SEO for Bing with Webmaster Tools

posted by Gary Cottam on October 23, 2011 in Search Engines

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Search may still be dominated by Google, but if you’ve been discounting the power of Bing to bring in traffic to your site then you are missing out on a big opportunity.

The good news is that even if you …

Custom Search Engines for Better Navigation

posted by Gary Cottam on October 21, 2011 in Search Engines

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Providing different ways to access content on your website to users who are already on the site is a very important aspect of good website design. This means having a logical and clean information structure/architecture so that users can navigate …

Short Take on Google’s Ad Bias

posted by Gary Cottam on September 22, 2011 in Online Marketing

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Google’s penchant for giving advertisers even more help in increasing their paid link’s click-through-rates may be irritating some (actually a lot) of people, but the truth is that Google’s days of being a “sales engine” as Aaron Wall …

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