Google+ Kills Off Google Places For Local Search
Google has further stamped its authority and determination to make Google+ a social force to be reckoned with by wiping out Google Places. They have overnight removed Google Places pages and moved towards a transition with Google+ Local pages. This does make more sense with the way that the Google platform is moving forward and […]
Google Sandbox is Not The Bermuda Triangle
Firstly the so called Google Sandbox is not the Bermuda Triangle or the Black Hole. If you have a website that has had over active On-Site SEO carried out by a bad consultant or agency and you have been buying web spamming software to build hundreds of poor links, there’s a good chance that your […]
Google Spanking The Spammers
Most SEO geeks will have Matt Cutts from Google towards the top of their list of people to follow for SEO news and information. He said something very interesting recently at SXSW about Google introducing a filter/penalty. Matt never gives everything away during changes but it is clear that Google are in the process of […]
New Google Venice Update overhauls local search
Late last month Google released information regarding a whole host of new updates and tweaks it will be making in the coming months on its official Inside Search blog, and one of the many changes to be made is the Google Venice Update, which claims to provide “Improved local results.” Google says: “We launched a […]
Broken Links May Ruin Your SEO Campaign
Broken links can be a real problem that may effect your search engine ranking. Search engines can have problems properly indexing your site and navigating through the pages. On top of this you may end of driving visitors away as they find themselves navigating back to your error pages or server files. If Google starts […]
5 Simple On Site SEO Tips for 2012
I have been involved in various SEO projects for a number of years now and there have been many changes with search engines, tools, competition and the introduction of Social Media. However many of the main on-site SEO principles remain the same. 1. Only Post Quality Content Too many people think they can post any […]
Rare Google PageRank Update
You may have read in the last 24 hours that Google has rolled out a toolbar page rank (PR) update. This usually leads to us geeky internet consultants quickly checking that our web ego’s havent taken a bashing with a reduced PR. Im sure many small companies, bloggers etc wont even check or care, but should they? […]
Google Wonder Wheel For Keyword Research
Everyone working on an SEO campaign will be carrying out keyword research at the start of a campaign and if you have been working with SEO for a while or are being advised you will know how important this is. However with the search engines constant battle to understand information from language semantics, it’s important to know what […]
5 Top Tips For Using LinkedIn
LinkedIn can be a scary place online connecting to people that you may not know that well or at all. I think it’s best if you view it as one giant networking event. If you were face to face then It may seem more appropriate but don’t be too concerned. If someone looks interesting and […]
New Facebook Profile Page
Facebook the worlds premier social networking platform announced a profile update on Sunday that’s already seeing mixed responses from some of the early adopters out of the 500 million current users. Josh Wiseman a Facebook engineer said in the Facebook blog “The profile begins with a quick overview of basic information such as where you’re from, where you went […]
SEO Snow Problem at RAD SEO
Ok so across the UK we see the beautiful white flakes of snow falling but does that really mean that everyone working across the UK should come to a stand still? Well in some cases ‘yes’ but not for RAD SEO. I turn breakfast TV on to see cars skidding on ice, people sleeping on […]
Simple SEO Tips
I was being asked today by someone to explain how Search engine optimisation (SEO) works and they were telling me they had done everything to get their site to number 1 on Google. The truth is they werent even being found on Page 1 of Google for their major key term. There was one major […]
