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Google Ditch The Search Bar And Idle Computers Cure Disease

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It’s a slow week for SEO. And, in an industry where we’re used to changes at an alarming pace, newsletter editors can get a little bit desperate when there isn’t much to write about.

Not that this is an acceptable excuse for being caught in a zoo enclosure dressed like Bill Oddie trying to explain the game of Monopoly to a waddle of increasingly agitated penguins.

So read on for mildly interesting stuff on Google search bars, Google+ and how leaving your computer on at night might one day save lives. Continue Reading

Unnatural Links Information, Connected Cars and a Zombie Apocalypse

Zombie Stop Sign - Dave Langdale - 14.02.13

There comes a time in every Newsletter Editor’s tenure when they lose the plot entirely. They bathe in ale, eat Poundshop rice pots for lunch and come to work in a snorkel. Apart from poisoning colleagues with a deadly combination of stout and chemically infused ‘Sweet & Sour Chicken’, it appears they also direct irrational hatred towards their stories.

So read on for mentally unstable attacks on Google personnel, Microsoft and drivers in the UK. I think there’s some news in there too. Somewhere… Continue Reading

iOS 6 Causes Analytics Dilemma And Google Look At Augmented Imagery

Cold Blue Bean - Dave Langdale - 16.01.13

So it’s 2013 and I imagine many of us are fruitlessly trying to cling onto our New Year’s resolutions like an alcoholic’s resolve in the aftershave aisle. Mine was to stop dressing up recently thawed fish and seating them around the dinner table for Sunday lunch. Needless to say I failed miserably.

It seems that the resolution of the SEO world is to roll out predictions for Google’s antics over the coming year and sit with their fingers crossed hoping they come true. And, if they’re anything like me, they’ll be doing it sat fully clothed in the bath, listening to Classic FM and writing Relocation Relocation fan fiction where every episode ends with “and that’s how Kirstie died”.

But we’re not concerned with the future in this newsletter. So read on for stuff about iOS 6 analytics issues, Google patents and some sad news. Continue Reading

Google Helps You Catch Your Flight And Connect With Google Communities

Epic Space Image - Dave Langdale - 07.12.12

It’s nice when companies do their best to help you out. Whether that’s going out of their way to find you the best deal on a phone contract or letting you have a 30 second head start after being found shopping in a Sainsbury’s skip, you really appreciate that extra mile. And that’s exactly what Google have been doing lately. With their updates to Google Now, Google Maps and Google+ Communities they seem to really want to improve everything for us, the users.
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New Bing Ranking Factors and Student Created Vibrative iPhone Keyboard

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It’s been less of a newsworthy month so far and more a collection of mutterings across various blogs, which is slightly surreal given the internet’s penchant for shouting as loud as it can. I’ve been perusing these mutterings and have gathered the more interesting ones into this week’s newsletter. Continue Reading

Google traffic and aliens invade

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Google recently began a trial to incorporate Gmail into search results, it is only an opt-in service but will link your search to emails in your inbox.

If you searched for Amazon Kindle, for example, and you had received an order confirmation for a Kindle, the information about it might show up in the side bar.

You might be wondering what use this would be to anyone. Imagine if you had searched for something such as “Train Times” and you have an email with a ticket purchase in your inbox, the search results will provide information about your upcoming train, including times and news of any delays. Continue Reading

Google Penguin attack imminent

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If you spend time on the internet, you may have noticed the increase in “SERP crowding”, where one or two domains take up the first three pages of the search results.

A post on SEOmoz attributed this to a sneaky Google update, their recent report shows that it has been getting worse too, up until this week.

It appears now that they have swapped this SERP crowding for displaying fewer results. Continue Reading

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