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Do not religiously follow the ‘3 click rule’. But also think about SEO

How many clicks does it take your users to complete their tasks?  How many give up before they complete?  I have been at Microsoft for a good number of years now and have heard ‘the 3 click rule’...

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Search engines treat meta refresh the same as 301 redirects

SEOMOZ recently published a good post for testing your level of expertise on SEO.  Whilst I am pleased to say I got the majority of the answers correct, there was one fact in the follow up post which...

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Seller rating scores will impact your SEO

Shopping comparison sites have for a long time been a popular method of finding the cheapest price online.  In a recent video, Matt Cutts from Google discusses how the rating scores from multiple price...

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Useful info from Google if you have a mobile site

Matt Cutts recently presented some valuable information about detecting the ‘Googlebot-Mobile’ user agent string, to identify the Google mobile crawler.  If you have a mobile version of your website,...

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A great example of how Quora enabled a valuable and open discussion

A recent post on Quora provides a good open discussion about the best SEO tools available on the web.  Tweet Whilst the content of the post itself is extremely useful for SEO, that was not actually...

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+1: Google’s version of Facebook ‘likes’

There can be little argument that Facebook is the global leader when it comes to owning the social graph of online interpersonal connections.  It’s also no secret that Bing now uses Facebook ‘like’...

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Bing is used to change the past (time travel)

If you have seen the trailer for the new ‘Source Code’ time travel movie, you may have noticed that Jake Gyllenhaal uses Bing.com for a mobile internet search whilst trying to change the past… Tweet...

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Google testing new full page preview

I have seen this a couple of times over the past few weeks, but only today finally managed to capture a screen shot… Tweet Google are testing a new feature which shows a preview of the full page...

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A clever way of getting more likes

Facebook ‘likes’ are becoming more and more important as a ranking factor for search engines.  Just saw this clever method from Lufthansa for getting more people to ‘like’ their brand/site… Clever...

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Free Search Engine event in Seattle

If you are based in Seattle, WA and are interested in a FREE SEO/social media event, featuring Duane Forrester from Microsoft, as well as other speakers, check out the link below......

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