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…

There is now an updated Top Search Query page in the Google Webmaster Tools. Read more…

Every year, google puts out an april fool joke on unsuspecting punters. This year, its Google Animal Translation - a google phone app to translate animal language. Last year it was Google 3D, and the year before it was . Read more…

Just noticed today in the google webmaster tools that you have a new option for verifying ownership of a site. In addition to adding a custom metatag or uploading the verification file, there is also a new option to add a DNS entry. Read more…

In a recent interview with Matt Cutts , senior engineer at Google, the question of whether 301 redirects pass on page rank was addressed. Matt. Read more…

In an inevitable progression of it's services division, google launched its Google Apps Marketplace last week. Read more…

I noticed today that Google has started adding a star in the search results next to the page titles. Read more…