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The Times Online Paywall Progress

13 Comments 20 July 2010

So The Times’ paywall has been up since the beginning of the month, with the newspaper’s strategists insisting that they are better placed serving a smaller, dedicated following that are happy to pay for their news, rather that the general, disinterested masses. With analysts, SEO’s, internet marketers and other publications all watching The Times’ experiment [...]

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Yandex – A Rival To Google?

19 Comments 21 May 2010

Enter Yandex Last week top Russian search engine Yandex launched the UK version of it’s website, and according to some, looks set to be genuine competition for Google and their dominance of UK search. At the end of last year Yandex was the fastest growing search engine in the world, ranking 8th overall, with Google [...]

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Google Removes TimesOnline from its Index

58 Comments 21 April 2010

[Update, 15:10 - www.timesonline.co.uk is now back in Google's index.  They went from having 0 pages indexed this morning to a quarter of a million just now.  The SEO guys at the Times are saying there was a techinical issue of some sort causing the dropout - I am unconvinced and cannot see how any [...]

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Site Speed: What Does It Mean for SEO?

89 Comments 13 April 2010

On Friday Google made official the news that Matt Cutts had mentioned last year, that website page load times were going to become one of the 200+ factors in Google’s ranking algorithms. This is a pretty unusual move from Google – usually (and for obvious reasons) they don’t exactly publicise ranking factors in this way. [...]

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Does the BBC need some SEO?

17 Comments 15 September 2009

An article in the Mail on Sunday yesterday sensationally ‘revealed’ that the BBC is “paying Google to top its search results” for high traffic keywords such as the Mercury Music Prize. This has provoked a few gasps amongst the search community that the Beeb is somehow buying search positions in some sort of shady deal [...]

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