Just looking in google webmaster tools for some SEO clients and noticed that they are now showing thousands of pages on my site as links back to their site. The urls are all invalid blog ones: eg http://www.mykeblack.com/blog/index8f62. Read more…

I thought we'd seen the last of the background image after the last debarcle last week when many people found it impossible to remove the google background image . However, the link is back on the search page again. Read more…

Following yesterday's debarcle with the background image on the google search home page, Google pulled the feature off the site after only 14 hours . Read more…

Another new service from Google has just been announced: Google TV . According to the official Google blog " Google TV uses search to give you an easy and fast way to navigate to television channels, websites, apps, shows and movies ". Read more…

Google has announced that it is rolling out a new SSL search service that allows you to search for websites securely. When you search using https://www.google. Read more…

Just went on google.com and the logo has changed to a packman game. When you click on the button labelled 'Insert Coin' next to the search button, you can play the game using the cursor keys - excellent!   Read more…

Google have just released it's latest ranking algorithm, which has led to a drop in rankings for many sites using long keyphrases. Read more…

Following yesterdays post on the ranking of this site for negative SEO , I checked the referral phrases for yesterday, and there are a number of related phrases that are popping up like " how to push down negative posts in serp " and &... Read more…

I've been looking at the topic of Latent Semantic Indexing  (LSI) which is what major search engines use to identify which keywords are related to each other; examples are, if you put into google ' Cleethorpes ' you will al... Read more…

Google has created a special version of the it's trends pages just for the 2010 UK General Election. The General Election Trends page shows the relative number of people who are search for the party leaders. Read more…