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  • Google – In-depth articles update and how to be included

    Over the next few days google are rolling out a UI update to include “in-depth” articles. Pandu Nayak of google who worked/designed the panda update is working on this project and posted over at insidesearch here http://insidesearch.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/discover-great-in-depth-articles-on.html It’s all about the broad topic search: To understand a broad topic, sometimes you need more than a…

  • UK payday loans serps update?

    Matt Cutts of google in his video last week announced how the next update would be big and one area it would target/look into was the uk payday loans. See the post here Well today the search result have been updated (yes the results change all day everyday …) Only one of the top organic results are…

  • Google to target Payday Loans in the UK

    The new penguin update 2.0 OR #4 is coming in the next few weeks and Matt Cutts of google’s spam team (search quality) have realised a video yesterday about up and coming updates including the awaited penguin 2.0 or #4 Check out the post over at seroundtable here for more discussion. Here is the video: What’s…

  • Goodbye google shopping

    All good things have to come to end 🙁 Google shopping will no longer be free in the UK and other countries just like in the USA last year… We all knew this was coming but was hoping the free listing would last a bit longer… From google: Every day, people use Google to shop for…

  • Google shopping is down in the UK

    Just had an email from a client asking if google shopping is down? And yes it’s currently down in the uk showing: Some of the search options are temporarily unavailable. You can repeat the search with standard options, or try again later with all options. Here is a screen shots when searching for books.. Interesting google…

  • Google Adsense shows a negative current balance

    As always each day I log into my adsense to check out what’s going on across all my sites. I got paid on the 26th as you can see so normally the balance on the account goes to £0.00 in other words all has been paid BUT for whatever reason google is now showing me…

  • New Digg 404’s old digg

    Wow.. digg has 404’d the old site for the new design.. Wow.. who has done that? Digg ranks (ranked) for so many search terms which it no longer will.. All of those outbound links are gone now too.. Here is an example: http://digg.com/news/story/Colourful_Adsense_hack_How_cool According to google digg has 14million pages (of course it has far more…

  • By default enabling My Product Listing Ads doesn’t work in the UK

    I’ve been running and playing with google’s adwords product listings for a while now and forever and a day I’ve been working on the google merchant shopping feed (froogle/base). Back in 2006 I got invited into to google to work with them on google base as I was emailing google base support at least 5 times a…

  • Google adds google plus to search results

    Showing both if I’m logged in or not google are showing what it labels as the “latest posts” on the keyword I’d type in. The image below is a screen shot of when I’m signed in but I also looks the same if not signed in. I’m sure I’ve read about google testing this but…

  • Google Analytics adds Social referral

     Google does keep giving but it seems only when it comes to the social world and not the search engine world. This is the only real update from google since taking away(most) our keywords from analytic reports. So now you can drilldown into the “social referral” as below: [click image to enlarge] You can also…

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