Bing recently introduced a great new feature for search and is currently in Beta. Bing’s visual search will not replace the text search feature but offers a great new way of search the internet. You are able to choose whether to use it or not from the home page or from the results page. But how can this be used to get the results you want? Continue reading
Whether you are just starting out with SEO or whether you are an experienced search engine consultant we all prefer automated tools – particularly when they are free. They just make our lives that little bit easier. By using these tools well we’re able to concentrate on what we do best and spend more time doing the more enjoyable areas of SEO.
So, without further introduction, here are some very useful tools you should consider to support your SEO work. Continue reading
Google continue to grow and establish their online dominance with the announcement of a partnership with Sony which will see Google chrome installed on select Sony laptops over the coming months, putting Google further in direct competition with their leading rival Microsoft who’s Internet Explorer now comes pre installed as standard on many computers. Continue reading
For as far back as we can remember the use of a flash website might be pleasing to the eye but it can have a great detrimental effect in gaining top positions within the search engines due to the fact that most of your website will be unreadable by the search engine spiders and therefore deemed to supply unworthy information. There have been many rumours around recently to say that Google is providing ways of making flash website more search engine friendly, but is this really the case? Continue reading
We’re seeing more and more people submitting their sites to social media websites such as Digg in an attempt to gain popularity within the search engines. This can be a useful tool and act as a good inbound link but overtime this system has been abused by spammers who submit short and meaningless information just to add another link to their books. Many of the social media websites have already become clued up to this tactic and in an attempt to deter spammers have added no follow attributes to their outgoing links. Continue reading
When you think of releasing press releases it’s fair to say that most will think of sending the news items to newspapers, journalists and magazines. For many, releasing press releases online isn’t the first thing that springs to mind. Well, it should!
Press releases have become a successful way of Internet advertising. These not only provide valuable inbound links, but also helps to website increase traffic and brand recognition. Continue reading
Have you ever wanted to know which other domains are hosted on the same web server as you or a competitor? There are tools that let you do this but require payment. Well, put your wallet (or purse) back in your pocket (or handbag/manbag) – you can now do it for free with Bing. And, it’s easy. Continue reading
You may remember recently reports of the launch of Google Services for Websites earlier this year. For those of you that didn’t know about this, Google Services for Websites was created and designed to help web hosters and access providers to easily offer powerful tools to their customers or webmasters to help enhance their websites and improve them.
The tools included around the time of the launch included Webmaster Tools, AdSense and Custom Search, aimed at helping website owners understand website and search performance, monetize their websites and improve the user experience. Going in the same vein, Google has recently rolled out more new tools to the program for all to take advantage of. Continue reading
You can rank at number 1 for your main key term and out rank all of your main competitors but still not receive any where near the amount of sales they do. The main issue for this is a high bounce rate.
The bounce rate is measured by the rate at which people click on and click off of your website – if you have a high bounce rate it means people are spending very little time on your website and aren’t navigating through your site as intended. Continue reading
We all know by now that Google is all about innovations. Well, they continue with the latest news that the search giant is set to predict the future of search trends. That’s to say that Google already know what we’ll be searching for in a year from now. They aren’t able to predict everything but for the more general search queries Google is remaining very confident. Continue reading