Digg has begun using a feature that Iframes all pages linked from Digg. The question has come up – how can Digg encourage the indexing of such pages? There seems to be no additional value to DiggBar pages in Google. Digg says they “always represent the source URL as the preferred version of the URL [...]
Digg’s New Linking Practices
April 12th, 2009Microsoft Takes a Huge Stride in Tool Functionality
August 7th, 2008Microsoft new update to their Webmaster Tools program brings them more level with Google in terms of usability and function. The update, released yesterday, provides many handy upgrades and new features, as well as explaining the significance of each one – something Google sometimes fails to do! Perhaps the most exciting is the brand new [...]
Google Adds Flash Sites to ‘Crawlable’ Content
July 6th, 2008Well, it’s here! And all the website owners we kept warning about the need to have text added to their sites are thumbing their noses at the idea that you still need text rich sites to rank well on Google. As eagerly anticipated, and long expected, Google has teamed with Adobe and Yahoo to come [...]
URLs Not Indexed by Google – Page Rank Drops to Nothing
June 15th, 2008How embarrassing. One of the biggest SEO events of the year, one of the biggest SEO blogs. Page Rank for SEOmoz’s Web 2.0 Awards post went in the toilet, and no-one could figure out why! You do realize we are talking SEO here, right? Am I the only one catching the irony? Rumors ran rampant [...]
Google Renames its Site Search
June 3rd, 2008I was thrilled to see the updated version of Google’s Custom Search Business Edition. Rebranded Google’s Site Search, it offers a lot of new features that I was only last week wishing were available – and now they will be! The product enhancements Google is unveiling along with the rebranding announcement include several that are [...]