Category: google

  • 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 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…

  • 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 Keyword (not provided) UK update

    Sadly google yesterday “started” rolling out it’s switch to https, the ssl search which does not pass the keyword data from the search results to your server. Over 120% increase in  Keyword (not provided)  from my UK traffic See this blog from yesterday http://www.seroundtable.com/google-ssl-worldwide-14836.html Anyway … Here are the stats to show off the massive impact on…

  • The sexy “Visitors Flow” comes to Google Analytics

    Stunning from google… Simply stunning.. Google have updated the new Analytics with visitors flow which a visualises the flow on your site.. Below is a little sample on one of my sites. The options are the same as all new sections of analytics with flow vs keywords, campaigns etc..   Nothing on http://analytics.blogspot.com/  about this yet and no…

  • Google Analytics visitor bug for single day view

    Using google Analytics  “new” interface on a single day view I have a massive bug regarding “Visits” vs “Unique Visitors” I really can’t work out the numbers google is using?  Feel free to comment but this seems to be a “view by day” bug as the weekly/monthly the figure are fine. Here is the screen shot:…

  • Google webmaster tools UI update.

    Google have updated the UI of the front dashboard page in webmaster tools . Here is a screen shot: The really interesting thing is the “Sort: By site health” ??? interesting use of the word health…. Also google are showing the word “New” in bright yellow for domain added within (in my case) the last…