Over at Cre8asite Forums (via Search Engine Roundtable), there’s has been discussion about whether or not Wikipedia has increased in prominence in Google. Barry Schwartz asks: So is Wikipedia stronger today in the Google results than it was 6 months ago? The answer is a resounding “Yes!”, by a huge amount. We’re in the fortunate…
Read MoreIt’s tempting to think of the home page as the one entry point to a website. In reality, Google will land visitors anywhere it sees fit. It’s an obvious behaviour to take advantage of but many sites don’t do so properly and lose valuable sales as a result of neglecting deeper pages which would be…
Read MoreLast night at about 3:45am BST Google made a change to the toolbar PageRank service which caused 3rd party checkers to stop working. It was a trivial change to the API URL, but some it ignited yet another round of “hooray, pagerank is useless and has gone away” tweets and a little bit of panic…
Read MoreVery often, the need to move a website from one hosting company to another can arise. This process can be full of traps for the unwary and the risk of significant downtime or having your site disappear from the search results is very real. In this post we’ll try to guide you through the process…
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