Category: google
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Google Analytics reporting update
I spend hours looking into site analytics, making on site changes and pointing links and testing, testing and more testing looking for impact and trends across loads of sites. I noticed today that on Friday 22nd July google changed things which has effect the reporting in google Analytics. The impact in one case has had 523% change…
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Alexander Calder logo for Pi day
Me being in the uk is Pi day for me. I know its not for you guys out in the USA because you write dates the wrong way around but today is Pi day here! So what have google done, well nothing bar a very cool Alexander Calder logo/doodle.. Its Alexander Calder Birthday, well 113th famed artist…
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Missing Unique Product Identifiers Effects on google shopping
I love being an seo and I do love how different all my clients are… One client hasn’t yet given me the go ahead to fix the Missing Unique Product Identifiers for the google merchant feed after months of suggesting it. Now what’s good about this (not for the client) is I can see the…
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Search by image Search Google with an image instead of text.
I’ve just spotted this when searching for no other than a “ray gun” of course 🙂 So brand new feature for me… google now allows you to search with an image. You have a choice of uploading OR a url.. google will match the image and suggest its “best guess” along with “visually similar images”…
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Google bug for blocked URLs
I run a large forum and had a “Defamation Complaint: UK” as a member had posted about how they felt they had been scammed. I’m not going to quote as don’t want to url removed for the search results but here is the gist.. Said member had paid for an ad in a publication which…
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Google shopping now in many countries
Google today have launch it’s famous shopping engine to many countries around the world. Before today 3 May 2011 google shopping feed only would work in the UK , Germany and USA. This is a massive change and I’m not sure why it wasn’t done before?? Legal issues maybe ?? Anyway .. Google now allow…
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Google Adwords UK support phone number
I was just searching on good old google.co.uk and came across this ad for adwords: My first thought was it some seo company pretending to be google slipping under the URL radar and redirecting to some crappy site.. But no it is google UK!!! Google are now giving “support” to adwords users via phone.. Yes you…
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Panda live in the UK including geo update maybe ?
Late on yesterday Matt cutts of google tweeted how panda is now live in all english serps.. In other words panda has hit the UK.. Now having just a quick look at the serps I do notice a fair drop for those article sites and Q&A sites with no real content so it seems to…
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Yuri Gagarin 50th Anniversary of the First Human Spaceflight
google celebrates “Yuri Gagarin” .. Yuri Gagarin was the First manned spaceflight amazingly some 50th years ago.. Yuri won one of the biggest races between the USA and the former USSR. The Soviet was a hero. This Spaceflight was the one and only flight Yuri Gagarin ever made. Sadly Gagarin died in 1968 when a Mig 15 training…
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Google webmaster tools blackout on 6th April
Just been having a quick look at my google webmaster tools account as its Monday and yet again google are not showing data for 6th of April across all sites.. This of course messes up all the % figures Here is a screen shot : As you can see some of the stats have be…