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Wikipedia Developing a Search Engine

Posted by Paul Smith | February 18, 2016

The Knight Foundation, a private not-for-profit American foundation that gives support to new ideas for transforming journalism, media and the arts, promoting engagement across different communities, has awarded a $250,000 grant to Wikipedia for a new project called the ‘Knowledge Engine’. Wikipedia is part of the Wikimedia family and reports […]

Search Engines
Google AdWords

Receive Support 24-Hours a Day Throughout the Working Week

Posted by Paul Smith | February 16, 2016

Google’s diving into social media to offer dedicated 24-hour support over the working week (from Monday to Friday) for AdWords-related queries from customers. They’ll be extending their English language support across Facebook, Google+, YouTube and Twitter. The AdWords team issued a tweet on 11th February with this breaking news, but […]

Pay per Click
Google Penguin

How will real-time Penguin impact on SEOs

Posted by Paul Smith | February 16, 2016

In April 2012, Google launched the Penguin update to weed out sites purportedly spamming search results, particularly those using links that were either bought or obtained through link networks, with the sole purpose of boosting a site in Google rankings. Whenever a new Penguin update comes out, sites that have […]

Search Engine Optimisation
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Streetmap Loses Google UK Court Battle

Posted by Paul Smith | February 15, 2016

Taking on web-giants Google in the courtroom is a brave and bold move and as UK based company Streetmap recently found out, David doesn’t always manage to topple Goliath. As their name implies, Streetmap peddle a maps and directions service covering the whole United Kingdom; a venture undeniably similar to […]

Google
Digital Marketing 2016

HTTP/2 is coming. What does this mean for SEO?

Posted by Paul Smith | February 15, 2016

HTTP has been around over 15 years and is showing it’s age. The demands of page loading have increased exponentially, with statistics showing that over 50% of websites load 75 or more files. This is currently difficult to achieve, since HTTP/1.1 only allows one request per TCP connection. To work […]

Online Marketing
Google Penalties

The true cost of false reviews

Posted by Paul Smith | February 12, 2016

Many people don’t realise the trouble they can get into through leaving a false review on the internet. One divorcing couple, Copia Blake and Peter Birzon found out the hard way, after they left a bad review on Yelp (and possibly reviews on other sites too) in respect of attorney […]

Online Marketing
Twitter

Twitter Introduces New Timeline Changes

Posted by Paul Smith | February 12, 2016

On Wednesday, Twitter launched its “improved timeline”, essentially introducing an algorithm-based timeline, altering users top view of their timeline based on their previous Twitter activity data. Twitter’s suggestion that it is an improvement to its original timeline comes from the fact that it pushes, objectively, the most “important” tweets to […]

Social Media
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GTINs Required in Google Product Listing Ads By 16th May

Posted by Paul Smith | February 12, 2016

According to sources, Google Shopping will begin to toughen up on merchants and retailers who do not follow Google’s stringent GTIN (Global Trade Item Number) requirements. A number of online retailers were pre-warned last year (2015) that 50 brands did not meet their requirements – Google is furthering their efforts […]

Product Listing Ads
Google Office

Right-To-Be-Forgotten links likely to be removed by Google from global searches

Posted by Paul Smith | February 11, 2016

Ever since Google began their ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ (RTBF) in 2006, 43% of links submitted (approx. 1.4 million URLs) have been removed. Now, Google plans to remove European RTBF links from worldwide search engines for those searching in the country where the request was made, making it almost impossible […]

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