It was interesting reading the unofficial Google blog post on Google images which was posted yesterday. Finding out a little more about images and Google’s image search has us here at a451 thinking, but before I get into that I’ll let you know just how neat Google Image search has become. The standard way to [...]
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Google+ Interview on Usability
In a recent report Google+ was said to have over 90 million users however, despite it’s high numbers the network is still considered by people with skepticism. Who’s really using it? Why not just stick with Facebook? What’s so special about yet another social networking service? Well, we here at a451 sent one of our [...]
AdWords Just Keeps Getting Better!
It seems like AdWords is on the ball and it’s worth knowing a little bit about the new and improved features it is now offering after it’s latest updates. The main thrust of these new improvements is in the area of mobile search. This rapidly growing source of website traffic is one which is worth [...]
What’s the deal with PageRank?
SEO 101 is back in full force this New Year! PageRank is a system which has been a part of SEO since Google was brought out in 1998. Google has explained that at the centre of their software is PageRank, a system developed by Larry Pageand Sergey Brin at Stanford University, both founders of the [...]
Unpacking The Google Chrome Rule Breaking & Penalty
As promised, we are back before the end of the week to unpack a little more of this Google penalising Chrome business. The facts are always handy to know first – Google was caught by some stealthy bloggers in what appeared to be a campaign of articles which promoted their Chrome browser. The campaign was [...]
No Happy New Year For Google After Penalty For Breaking Rules
A Happy New Year from everyone here at a451! However, it seems that not everyone has started off the New Year happy, or at least, they’re not happy anymore. It appears that all Google got for Christmas was coal after they actually managed to break their own rules! Yes, that’s right. Google, the monopoliser of [...]
XML Sitemaps
09 Dec 2011 at 09:52
Pip Norman
Google, Indexing, SEO 101, Site Architecture, Webmaster Tools
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Another Search 101 blog for you here and this one is about XML Sitemaps – pretty obvious from the title! XML Sitemaps are very important to the ranking of your website. The essential role of an XML Sitemap is to tell Google about pages on your site which may not otherwise be found by the [...]
Search Friendly URLs
It’s been a while since we’ve done an SEO 101 blog which is why I am grabbing this opportunity by the horns and running with it! We’re going to have a look at Search Friendly URLs – But don’t worry, this isn’t going to be in-depth, just a brief overview of what a URL is, what [...]
Google’s Verbatim Tool:
What a lot of people do not know about Google or perhaps simply don’t take into account is that Google quite often tweeks your searches. That’s right. You may type in a query (keyword phrase) to find a specific website or information on a specific area and Google does not only bring up answers to [...]