Category Archives: Google

Google (not so) Instant in the UK

Google Instant, another ‘useful’ search function has been launched to users in the US. As usual us UK marketing people see a multitude of tweets from our US friends and wondering what the heck the issue is.

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Google’s ‘Local Business Results’ is Changing

Like it or not, Google Local Business Results is making way for the new “Place Page” and from what I can see there is one change in particular that could make all the difference for websites that hold a local business result listing.

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PPC is Bullshit

It has been my displeasure to recently have come across some companies that are delivering an amazing low cost ‘affordable’ marketing solution. These companies target small businesses who perhaps may not know enough about online marketing to understand exactly what it is they are being sold.

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Get Rich Quick with Fast Hosting!

If you seriously think that faster hosting is all it takes to make a successful website you are very much mistaken. Sorry about that.

With every announcement made by Google there comes a stream of updates by service providers who try to use ‘the official word of Google’ to their advantage. Of course they will, it is business afterall.

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Google Needs a Grammar Check

Now, I’m not one to call people on their grammar especially since I started blogging and making my own silly schoolgirl erros but really Google, what is going on with you?

Not only are you trying to force us Brits into replacing our s’s with z’s like the Americans but now you want to suggest that I might be spelling Pyscho wrong.

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Rel=Canonical is a Band Aid not a Solution

There is a bit of a buzz at the moment that Google has come up with a ‘solution’ for those multiple ugly urls that come with dynamic websites.

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Tell your clients about Web History

If you provide an SEO service you really need to let your clients know about Personalised Search and Web History. This post is for mine.

Personalised Search has now officially been launched by Google and from now on when you search for something the results that YOU see will begin to rank the websites you ‘usually’ click on higher than they ranked before.

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How to Sign Out of Web History

(Even though you aren’t signed in!)

Given there is a lot of buzz around personalised Google search at the moment I thought I would start off with a very simple ‘how to’ aimed at the average Internet user.

Even though you are signed out of Google you will now find that Google is recording your searches via ‘Web History’

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