Posts for Google

Below are a few gripes for August 2010!  These are my own personal grumpy old SEO engineer moans and may not reflect anyone else’s experience, but for what it’s worth here they are: Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/danete/62162437/ Google Gripe no.1   Advanced Search If you select an advanced search to display 100 listings per page then it generates [...]

Google in their seemingly never-ending quest to conquer every possible monetisable element of the internet, have added yet another featured box to their search results, above those returned organically. A search for ‘credit cards’ reveals Google’s latest addition, Google Comparison Ads: Note the second coloured box above the number one natural result, entitled ‘Compare Credit [...]

Music mogul Simon Cowell, judge on a myriad of over-the-top talent shows, has been suggested to be using SEO to manage his online reputation; ensuring any Google search of his name returns only positive results. – Although the Cowell camp denies the manipulation of Google results (Cowell’s UK spokesman called it a conspiracy theory), a [...]