Sam Tilston | Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Expert London

Link Building Explained

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:23:52 +0000

Google Realtime Search

admin — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:08:47 +0000

Today Google launched real time search, you can check it out here www.google.com/realtime.

From an SEO point of view, the search suggest results from real time and very different from those of normal search. This further supports the view that search suggest results come from text on the web rather than number of searches.

Google Voice and Video Chat

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:46:11 +0000

Google launched their voice and video chat in the UK today. This enables you to make voice calls to landline and mobile numbers worldwide from within Gmail. The rates look great, I can no call my brother on his mobile in Australia for $0.14 a minute.

Here is a screenshot of the dialer.

Enjoy.

Ranking Algorithm Change

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:11:16 +0000

Google made a change a couple of days ago which allows many pages from the same domain to show up on specific search terms.

I think this could be exploited if a site targets keywords using the Google wonder wheel. For example, a site that was targeting the core term “managed hosting” together with the wonder wheel terms listed below could get their sites pages to list more than once without the indent.

You can see an example of this working with one of my websites.

Enjoy.

List of All Google Products

admin — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:55:51 +0000

Here is a full list of all the products Google have done, there is a lot, nearly 550 in total. Interesting to note that only a few of them have actually made money.

View it here : Google Products List

Or download it here – Download Google Products List

I hope big G can come up with some serious revenue streams other than Adwords soon.

Enjoy.

Google Command Line Tool

admin — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 09:29:02 +0000

A new tool has be released by the open source community called GoogleCL. It allows you to run a full range of commands to use Google services from a command line. This opens up many possibilities for scripted use of Google services.

Some examples may be :

$ google blogger post –blog “My blog” –tags “python, googlecl, development” my_post.html
$ google calendar add “Lunch with Jason tomorrow at noon”
$ google docs edit –title “Shopping list” –editor vim

Visit GoogleCL for more info.

Enjoy.

Best Android Game

admin — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 17:44:42 +0000

The best android game has just be released, Duck Hunt! This is an amazingly addictive game. Shoot the ducks and don’t hit the endangered birds! Loads of fun, play for 1 minute or 1 hour. Choose 2 ducks for an even harder challenge.

Managed Limited Company

admin — Fri, 21 May 2010 13:24:42 +0000

Got a limited company but don’t want the accounting hassle? You could try Crunch Accounting. They have an amazing piece of online software which makes invoicing, expenses and payment a breeze. For £59.50 a month they pretty much take care of everything, registering the company, filing documents, registering for VAT, company address etc etc. I recommend them, their customer service is amazing.

Google SERPs Get Busy

admin — Fri, 07 May 2010 08:18:01 +0000

Google recently made some layout and design changes to both the homepage buttons, logo and more importantly the search engine results page.

Personally I’m not keen on the SERPs changes, the page now looks incredibly busy.

Having these additional options presented to the user could have some big impacts.

Decrease number of clicks on both Adwords and Natural results
Increased need for sites to push content to blogs, news, images, videos etc
Ensuring sites are included in the different filters, i.e. sites with images

Enjoy.

Forcing Google to Re-Index

admin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:58:29 +0000

Errors can happen sometimes, on this occasion a maintenance message from some sites has been indexed by Google and is causing a drop off in visitors and therefore sales. The best way to increase the speed of a re-index is to link to the sites in question.

Enjoy.