There has always been plenty of debate about the importance of choosing an appropriate tld (top level domain, like .com, .ie, .co.uk etc), and choosing a hosting service based in your main target market.
Until recently the common wisdom was that, if you wanted to rank well in a specific local search engine index, like for [...]
Posts Tagged ‘do’s and don’ts for s.e.o’
Getting your pages indexed in google’s local search – a google.co.uk case study
Sunday, March 7th, 2010Google makes advances in image recognition
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009Google has just published an interesting research paper which suggests that they have made big advances in the image-recognition software field. At a computer vision and pattern recognition conference in Miami recently, Jay Yagnik, google’s head of vision research claimed that their new system has had an 80% accuracy in identifying untagged images of up [...]
Moving domains – an expert experiments
Monday, May 25th, 2009Back in April Google guru Matt Cutts decided to move his blog from his www.mattcutts.com domain to another that he owns, www.dullest.com, changing host and ip address at the same time. All things that can have an impact on how your website performs both for visitors and for search engines.
Now he’s moved it back, and [...]
Matt Cutts is a big fan of Google’s ‘Spellmeleon’ – should you be too?
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009The head of Google’s web-spam team, Matt Cutts has been talking about some features that are already in google’s search results, though you may not have noticed them. In particular he’s been talking about the google spell-checking features – giving us a glimpse into the internal workings by revealing two different features and their inhouse [...]