It’s official – speed is a factor in google ranking, but don’t panic

Monday, April 12th, 2010

So, after a lot of rumours and behind the scenes testing, Google has come out and made it official – the speed of your website is now one of the (over 200) factors taken into account when ranking your site in the search results. Cue widespread panic and a lot of shark-like activity on the […]

Moving domains – an expert experiments

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Back 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, […]

Matt Cutts is a big fan of Google’s ‘Spellmeleon’ – should you be too?

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

The 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 […]

Google combat spam with change in ranking algorithm

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

There’s an interesting article in today’s Web Pro News, where Jason Lee Millar suggests that Google are being forced by increasingly embarassing high-ranking spam results to change their ranking algorithm.  The crux of the article is that the web, and the way it’s linked up, is changing rapidly. Things are speeding up, and it seems […]