Articles in Google
Head Of Google Kenya Fired
We recently mentioned the Mocality scandal in which Google Kenya had been illegally accessing and using the database of a Kenyan firm in order to sell people into their GKBO offer…
Page Layout To Affect Optimisation
Last week, Google announced the latest update to its algorithm on its Webmaster Central Blog , saying that this latest change looks at the layout of a web page, and takes note of…
Google Sells Google Ads With Free Websites
In a bid to bring more businesses online, Google, in association with the Department of Trade and Industry, Vodacom, and the HRDC, is offering free websites to small and medium…
Google Releasing Regular Update
Last month, Google first posted a list of the latest 10 updates to their search algorithm. Nothing too specific of course, but certainly a list of things that would be looked at…
Google Changes Search Page
Over the past few months, Google has been showing previews of their new look and feel over almost all of their products, from Gmail to Google Docs, and everything in between. It's…
Google Discontinues Products
Google is carrying out another round of spring cleaning, according to the official Google blog . Effectively, they're in the process of shutting down and discontinuing a few of…
Verbatim Results From Google
A long time ago, when search engines were new, there was a search operator known as "and" that made sure the words that it joined were both present on the pages you got as search…
Finding Categories In Google Places
With the recent focus on Google Places and local search optimisation, one of the most important aspects of optimising for local search it to create a Google Places listing for…
Google Places Category Tool
With local search results continuing to be prominent (if not dominant) in search engine results, it's important to make sure that your business has a Google Places listing. This…
Google Revamps Places Pages
Last week, Google publicised some new changes to Google Places, their local search / listing pages which allow businesses to be displayed on the Google maps, and in local search…
Google To Track Content Authors
Google announced yesterday that it has started to index content based not only on the website that published it, but also on the author who originated it. Using the rel="author"…
Google +1
At the end of last month, Google very quietly launched what it calls a new layer of social networking tied to the world famous search engine. The Google +1 Button is modeled on…