Tag: google

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Image heavy web sites and statistical analysis on CTR

    I thought this may interest any website owners and seo’s out and about.. I run a sort of social network of products of which members submit and vote, you know sort of like digg.. On this site you can’t submit anything without an image so the site is 100% image heavy. The niche of the…

  • Could this be the end of UK serps

    I’m not alone in moaning about the uk serps Take a look at a few of these posts http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/020175.html and http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/google/big-geo-problems-still-exist-in-google-uk-serps plus many others.. Well.. Just now google have changed the UI on google.co.uk serps … WARNING THIS IS NOT GOOD IF YOU FROM THE UK So the serps are bad already.. yes we agree…

  • beta adwords interface warning.

    I started using the beta interface for google adwords on the 14th Feb 2009.. Still 50/50 if I like it or not.. some good bits some bad as always… Anyway.. Over the weekend I logged in and got a warning telling the interface will stick… Here it is:

  • Google hates Wales (not the mammals)

    Ok haven’t blogged for an age here… So now that I have a tiny amount of time I thought I’d blog a little now and again.. So google hates Wales… Well i’ve been away snowboarding for a week as per norm this time of year and brought the snow back to the UK with me…

  • florence nightingale’s birthday

    Today in 1920 Florence nightingale was born! Today in 2008 google.co.uk give respest to her on the google.co.uk homepage with a new google logo link to http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=florence+nightingale%27s+birthday&hl=en With the query “florence nightingale’s birthday” This isn’t showing on the google.com homepage for me “yet” .. UK thing 🙂 Here is the logo:  Here is a…