Category Archives: Google

So – if you are here, then like me, you got extremely excited about the new Star Wars film – Stars Wars VII, The Force Awakens. When Google first offered me the chance to “choose your side” and theme your whole Google account it seemed like a great idea. And it was, even after seeing […]

Thanks to the fantastic people at Lunametrics (and a hat tip to Mark at Status Social for bringing this to our attention), here is everything you need to know about image sizes across all the main social media platforms – this is a handy guide so that you can plan prior to putting your profiles […]

Google is renowned for putting “Easter Eggs” in their search results, with recent results such as “Google in 1998” taking you back to a Google search page from 1998, but they have gone all out this Halloween to get you searching for Halloween themed Easter Eggs. We have searched long and hard and have managed […]

Some website owners (and developers!) haven’t realised that there is a new(ish) Google Analytics code that should “ideally” replace your current Google Analtyics code called Double Click. To generate the new code simply log into your Google Analytics account, click ADMIN, and then navigate to the tracking tab.     Here you will see your […]

A recent video from Matt Cutts, head of Google’s spam team explains how to use a new tool your Google Webmaster toolkit to actively disassociate your website from “spammy” links. Why is this needed? With the initial release (and continual update) of the algorithm change code named “Google Penguin“, websites with links that came into […]

  There are now over 250 Million people who have upgraded to Google+ 150 Million of these are ACTIVE monthly users. 50% of Google+ users sign in on a daily basis. Of the users that do sign in, more use Google+ via a mobile device than a desktop PC. Google+ for Tablets has been announced […]

Just released by Google at the 2012 Developers I/O conference – here is a team wearing the Google Glasses and projecting their skydive as a live hangout – just AWESOME   Google Glasses Sky Diving Demo

A recent post on mashable highlighted how the search engine giant is about to evolve the way some results will be presented. Initially this will only be available on Google.com in the US, however it is expected to roll out to the rest of the world relatively quickly. Check out this video below – I […]

Matt Cutts (head of Google’s Spam team) has recently added a new video to YouTube explaining how Google uses “Human Raters” to help with improving their search results. He explains it much better than me below: Not sure about you, but I found it fascinating how Google are continually trying to improve the search results […]

Over the last month it appears that Google have been rolling out changes to their algorithm that is specifically aimed at websites that have  been able to rank highly in the natural search results as a direct result of having thousands of links coming into (or being shared throughout) their website.  To save me some […]