In the past few hours there has been all sorts of commentary on the Web about the new Google SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages). As a very quick summary, Google SERPs will now by default show the Webpage results we are accustomed to as well as ‘social’ results in the form of content shared by people that [...]
I regularly have people say to me that their Webpages appear in the first results page in the Google Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). When I then search for the same search terms they used, their Webpages are nowhere near the first Page. What most people don’t realise is that Google does a great job [...]
For many of us it is a New Year and for some that means New Years resolutions. 2010 has been a very successful year for me and I have been extremely busy building awesome WordPress Websites for clients. 2010 was notable for me as my many hours of SEO activities paid off very handsomely in [...]
Google has named Webpage load speed as a ranking factor. This means that when Google calculates in which position to display results in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages), faster loading Webpages may be positioned more prominently. There are several hundred factors that Google uses when considering where to place a Webpage in the SERPs [...]
Rich Snippets (the term Google uses for Microformats, RDFa and Microdata) is used by many larger organizations. Rich Snippets is essentially data that conforms to a specific standard so that machines may understand the data. For example, say that I want to write a review, then I may use the hreview Microformat standard to review [...]
