Following the European Unions ruling that an individual has a “right to be fogotten” Google has created a form that allows EU citizens to request removal of content from the search giant. The form requires a valid photo ID, that you reside in one of the 28 countries supported by the EU under this ruling… Continue reading Google’s Right to be Forgotten form
Category: seo
Is Panda 4 the Press release Panda?
Google’s latest version of it’s Panda algorithm has recently been released into the wild and Matt Cutts has suggested it’s likely to affect 7.5% of search queries (a substantial amount). Matt Cutts has suggested that this update paves the way for “gentler” updates which is great but doesn’t help any sites hit right now. Sean… Continue reading Is Panda 4 the Press release Panda?
How Smart is Googlebot?
The question has often been raised within the world of search about just how smart Google’s website crawler “bot” actually is. The simple fact is that only Google really knows but some believe that the fact that Google developed the Chrome browser is no co-incidence. After all, why would the worlds largest advertising platform and… Continue reading How Smart is Googlebot?
And todays question comes from…
Some time ago, I submitted a few questions to Google’s head of Webspam and spokesperson, Matt Cutts for his regular Q&A videos. Today Matt has actually answered one of those questions I asked (I wonder if he realises it’s Lancaster in the UK rather than California?). Interestingly his answer goes some way to supporting the… Continue reading And todays question comes from…
The Best search engine according to Google
With more than 80% share in the search market, you may be forgiven for thinking that Google would consider itself to be the best search engine, but strangly they don’t. Ok so if they don’t think they should be number 1 for search engine it must be Bing, or even Yahoo surely? Erm, no actually,… Continue reading The Best search engine according to Google
Very poor results in (say) Google
In an update to the previous post, Google’s Matt Cutts has finally answered commented on the question asked back in July: “Why are the UK SERPS still really poor with irrelevant non UK sites (US/Aus/NZ) ranking very high Google.co.uk since early June? You can see his video over at the Google Webmaster central video channel,… Continue reading Very poor results in (say) Google
Google UK serps still showing flux
Google UK has been showing a large amount of fluctuation in it’s natural search results since late May 09 and this is still going on. As a science fiction and fantasy fan I often check where my other site is for this term. Up to May the results returned for this search term were around… Continue reading Google UK serps still showing flux