Bing Webmaster Tools

Bing Improves Site Safety Features

Posted by Paul Smith | August 1, 2014

Bing has improved its site safety features adding a new page that explains why a given site may be unsafe for visitors. Previously, when a searcher was presented with a potentially dangerous website in the search results, they would be shown a warning that indicated that the site could be […]

Bing
Link Building

Link Building Survey Results Released

Posted by Paul Smith | July 31, 2014

James Agate of Skyrocket SEO has just released the results of his link-building survey. The details of the survey are available to view on Moz and they offer an interesting overview of the state of the SEO industry. The survey considered which tactics are the most frequently used and the […]

Search Engine Optimisation
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Foursquare Launches Massive Upgrade

Posted by Paul Smith | July 25, 2014

Foursquare has decided to split their popular check-in and location directory app into two separate applications. The check-in functionality for the Foursquare app has been moved to a new app, called Swarm, while the local search features are being upgraded and will remain a part of Foursquare. Foursquare called the […]

Local SEO
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Bing Falling Out of Favour in the USA

Posted by Paul Smith | July 24, 2014

According to a survey of 70,000 web users, conducted as part of the American Consumer Satisfaction Index E-Business Report, Google is loved by most of its customers, while Bing is slowly falling out of favour, and satisfaction amongst Yahoo users is also declining. Google received a score of 83/100, an […]

Search Engines
Google Launches New Robots.txt Testing Tool

New Robots.txt Tester from Google

Posted by Paul Smith | July 18, 2014

Google has just launched a new robots.txt testing tool for Google Webmaster Tools. The updated version highlights errors that cause Google to fail to crawl pages on your website, and will let you edit your robots.txt file and test your site to see whether URLs are being blocked. It also […]

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Bing Webmaster Tools

Bing Webmaster Communication

Posted by Paul Smith | July 17, 2014

Igor Rondel, Principal Development Manager of Bing’s Index Quality Team, has just published a blog post apologising to webmasters and stating that they can expect to see Bing be more proactive in terms of communicating with webmasters via the Bing Webmaster Blog from now on. Igor said that he felt […]

Bing
Twitter Marketing

Influential Twitter Accounts Indexation

Posted by Paul Smith | July 14, 2014

According to statistics gathered by Stone Temple Consulting, Twitter accounts that are considered to be influential are indexed better by Google than less popular or important Twitter accounts. Stone Temple Consulting tracked the indexation statistics of a huge number of Twitter accounts and found that while indexation was low across […]

Social Media
Respove Web Design

Mobile Internet Use Exceeds Desktop

Posted by Paul Smith | July 10, 2014

For the first time in history, mobile internet use has exceeded PC internet use. This landmark shift marks a huge change in the way that consumers engage with the internet, and means that many online brands will have a lot of catching up to do. For many companies, who have […]

Responsive Web Design
Google Panda

Google clarifies Panda 4.0 Tremors

Posted by Paul Smith | July 3, 2014

It has been six weeks since Panda 4.0 rolled out, and in that time webmasters have learned a lot about what matters to the algorithm and what does not matter. The last few weeks have seen SEO experts analysing the nuclear option, pondering the importance of content from subject matter […]

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