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Twitter Lets Google Index Tweets Again
Twitter’s searchability has been a noticeable issue between it and search engine titan Google for quite some time now. The collapse of their original indexing agreement was a good…
Google Shuts Down Woza Online
In January of 2012, Google launched a free website service for South Africa, in partnership with the DTI, Vodacom and the HRDC. Since its inception, Google estimates that around…
Penguin 3.0
Google has confirmed that their anti-spam algorithm, Penguin, was updated for the first time in over a year on Friday 17 October. Penguin is designed to target sites that it deems…
Google Structured Snippets
It was announced yesterday in a post on the Google Research Blog that Google has rolled out a new feature that can show tabular data from your page under the description in the…
Google Penguin Update - Finally
In early 2012, Google released an algorithm update that was codenamed “Penguin.” This update was touted as an anti-spam measure, apparently mostly aimed at bad linking. Another…
Google Drops Authorship Markup
Just over 3 years since Google first announced in a 2011 blog post that it would be supporting authorship mark-up and including rich snippets showing it in search results,…
Google Pigeon Update: What We Know After Week 1
It’s been a week since Google’s Local Search algorithm update was rolled out in the U.S. Since our last article on the subject a few SEO experts have weighed in, reporting any…
Google Updates Local Search Algorithm
Last week Thursday (24 July 2014) Google released its new algorithm update which, though yet unnamed by Google, has been dubbed Pigeon by SEOs. The new algorithm will have a…
Google Webmaster Tools Releases Robots Testing Update
The robots.txt exclusion standard is a bit of an ambiguous convention, acting as sort of the opposite of a sitemap. But while one might see the value in telling a web crawler what…
Google Panda 4.0 Rolls Out
If you've been following along with the on-going state of the SEO industry, you'll know that recent times have been fraught with changes. On that score at least, things have…
Social Media Shares
Some interesting, if slightly contradictory info out recently about the proportion of social media log-ins, and who is winning the war for social attention. 2 days ago, Gigya ,…
Hummingbird And The Future Of Search
Late last year, Google rolled out its new search algorithm, named Hummingbird, with the aim of giving users more precise results for their searches. In the past, the Google search…