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Bing’s iOS & Android Apps Providing Faster Searching
Posted by Paul Smith | February 5, 2016Bing is making some big changes. The search engine’s last iOS update was only a couple of months ago, with December bringing Bing up to speed by adding third-party app integration, a bar code scanner, and in-store price comparisons to the features on offer. Now for February, Bing has again […]
Safe Browsing in Google Now Blocks Deceptive Ads
Posted by Paul Smith | February 5, 2016Google’s Safe Browsing initiative has expanded recently to provide users of the search engine with greater protection from malware, viruses, or from other online dangers such as identity theft. Google’s social engineering policy, announced in November, blocks attempts at social engineering. ‘Social engineering’, in this case, refers to embedded images […]
Being Socialable: UX Changes to Facebook and Twitter
Posted by Paul Smith | February 4, 2016Two of the biggest social media players, Facebook and Twitter, have similar challenges when meeting the needs of personal and business users. Both social network platforms aim to provide a social and a business focus and they’ve made some changes in a bid for continuous improvement. Facebook takes a long, […]
Update your WordPress now; fix Major Vulnerabilities
Posted by Paul Smith | February 3, 2016Several of WordPress’s vulnerabilities have been updated with the release – fixing critical issues that you will want to remedy immediately. Before this update rolled-out, Sucuri explained how – what they called a “admedia iframe injection” – had exploited and infected many WordPress sites across the Internet with Malware, using […]
Interpreting Google’s Recent Webmaster Guidelines Update
Posted by Paul Smith | February 3, 2016Google have decided to make some changes in their latest rendition of the Google Webmaster Guidelines. Below is a comprehensive list detailing the main changes and how they will affect different users. We have used a ‘**’ symbol to indicate where removed text was once positioned. The Opening Paragraph One […]
301 or 302 Redirect to HTTPS to Avoid PageRank Loss
Posted by Paul Smith | February 3, 2016A major concern that people have expressed concerning switching to HTTPS is related to whether there is the possibility of experiencing some PageRank loss, no matter how small. This is suspected to happen when redirecting all your web pages to the HTTPS version from the HTTP version. Nobody after all […]
Valentine’s Day Search Trends
Posted by Paul Smith | February 2, 2016It’s been just over a month since Christmas, but when we enter February, we begin to see the next massive surge of search engine activity, with the run down to Valentine’s Day. From February 1st there is still two weeks to go but you can see even in the first […]
Personal Data Within Google Search Results – ‘Recent Purchases’
Posted by Paul Smith | February 2, 2016Google is trialling a controversial new feature that allows them to use your personal data within Google search results, including your recent purchases. The reaction from the internet has so far been mixed, to say the least, with many people finding it disturbing and intrusive. The data displayed is taken […]
Click-through Rates and Climbing the Search Engine Rankings
Posted by Paul Smith | February 1, 2016Google draws on many types of data to rank their search engine results, but CTRs (Click-through Rates) are not included in the decision making of their algorithms. That is the official line, of course; they have stated that they only use them for assessing the quality of their results. So […]
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